[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 weeks ago

Thats happened for ages for me, and its because the headunit needs to connect directly to your phone, which many VPN apps break intentionally.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago

An electrician certification doesn't mean a whole lot either. Both are just paper. Degrees with work experience and trades with apprentership time hold a little more value, but its still hit and miss.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 4 months ago

DMs in Lemmy are not private, instance admins can see them in the DB. If you fear for your safety, use something e2e encrypted. This is not a criticism of quokk.au or blahaj admins, just general safety advice.

Stay safe.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 11 months ago

We are getting into the tricky end of the lifecycle, supporting the tools. Seems every day there is a newly abandoned crate with no replacement devs.

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Seems like a problem that doesn't require AI. Just have an email template with all services, and delete the unnecessary ones. Shouldn't take 5 hours.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago

Double edged sword. Forced adoption of a shitty distro, or a really locked down/limited system might not be a step forward at all.

From memory, Germany did this many years ago, and ended up rolling it back?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago

I think it perfectly highlights what can happen when the risk/severity is blown out of proportion. People will latch on to that and waste precious time and energy defending that.

If the original guy had just published "CUPS has a RCE, firewall it if you haven't already", the issue would have been patched in the next release, and the world would have kept turning.

It was a really cool bug, and a great find, it didn't need the hype

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago

I'm looking for a distro with good cd support, what should I use?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 years ago

You have probably invested a lot of time and effort into this, so please take this as constructive criticism.

Your security systems are probably not going to be sufficient, for a whole number of reasons.

Script Voting

The general public is not able to appropriately audit shell scripts. This extends even to sysadmins and more technical people. The people who can properly audit scripts are a minority, and they may not even be amongst your user base. Anyone who gets a script that "does its job" is going to upvote it as fine, because they may not even be aware of its malicious side effects.

Scripts will naturally need to evolve over time, so script updates will be a normal part of your system. Will the votes reset for new versions? Is there anything stopping someone uploading farming votes with valid scripts, and then backdoor the script once it gets sufficiently popular?

Is there any form of vote manipulation prevention planned? If not, bad actors can create an army of accounts and upvote their malicious content. Can you remove a users votes if they are found to be acting maliciously? Will it even be possible for you to tell the difference between a naive user who doesn't understand the maliciousness of the script, versus an account actively increasing the rating of a bad package?

User Reputation

This seems easy to game as well. Upload a host of valid scripts, gain reputation, and then when ready, upload malicious scripts.

Collaboration

Allowing non-maintainers to edit and upload scripts seems like a wildly bad idea. There must be some level of maintainer approval for that right? Still will have the same issues, easy for someone to build trust on a script repo and then exploit it when it suits them.

None of these issues are unique to your site, pypi, dockerhub etc have all hit these issues in the past.

I think the only real answer is to have very strong human moderation, but I fear that if your site takes off, the workload will rapidly spiral out of control. Otherwise, interesting idea, Good Luck!

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 3 years ago

Cost. Not financial, time. I have to release on Google Play, because everyone is there, so its the easiest place to attract users. Adding fdroid or whatever else doubles the amount of time and effort i have to spend on releasing my app. Even creating a release on github isnt free in terms of time and effort.

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