Thanks for the explanation!

Is that from Google? I was expecting much better code given the average engineer salary. That code looks pretty ugly.

I don’t know, I used to use Nokia as teenager… Things tend to change quite radically over years

I am talking about “forum-like” websites not static web pages. The article is about fediverse

The problems are bots spamming, or attacking to gather PI. Too much effort. We can’t have nice things anymore

I was one of them. I won’t do it now. Security threats have become so time consuming nowadays to handle.

Wow!

What about the flaming and jelly windows? That was cool stuff

For research labs, dell workstations used to be great. Put debian on it and you could forget about problems. I don’t know if it is the case anymore.

The selling point of xps is that they are light. Many of us just need light laptops nowadays, as almost any hardware is more than capable of any task with the exception of gaming. But I have never gamed on laptops

Xps developer edition has been a thing since almost a decade. I bought a xps13 with ubuntu in Europe. I replaced it as soon as it arrived though. The built in OS was not “standard”.

I still use it almost daily. Battery has gone, but everything else works

Light ThinkPads are not cheap either

Main issue of mine was the wifi card. Awful. Everything else very nice.

Ahahah, emacs is immortal

It borrowed the concept from old editor such emacs. It is a modern emacs. A single editor to do literally everything via plugins. The idea is that one needs to learn a single editor to master everything.

It is very powerful for people who do multiple things. It’s not worthy if the whole job is to simply writing java or c#. In that case a dedicated ide is better

VSCode is a modern emacs. Similar concept, a single editor to do everything via extensions. That’s the selling point. “young people” never had the chance to work with a similar concept, this is why they found it so revolutionary (despite being a concept from the 70s).

I use it because I am forced to use a windows laptop at work, and emacs on windows is a painful experience

That requires user profiling, something most lemmy users are vocally against.

It also requires a data science team and a bunch of additional legal stuff.

Lemmy user here, I don’t see it either… The guy has bad settings

It targets router firmwares though… These bot farms do not usually target real gnu/Linux os, because it is easier and more effective to attack router firmwares that are not well configured by producers and telcoms, and are practically never upgraded.

Therefore they are not a real threat for standard mint or popOS user… Let alone gentoo users

Edit. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)

I use python professionaly. Never seen a real successful supply chain attack on libraries used by “normal” people. There was recently a supply chain attack to pytorch, that I remember, but it was solved within few hours.

It is not a real risk for non developers. It is a risk, but veeery low, miles lower than pdf.exe.

Just check this stat for ransomwares taken as an example of viruses: https://www.statista.com/statistics/701020/major-operating-systems-targeted-by-ransomware/

Windows server is ~20% of server market. Still it is there second, with in practice no GNU/linux (80% of server market). This is why people do not really worry much, the risk exists, but it is minimal for well configured system compared to competition, even where competitors are a niche and Linux machines are the main target.

On windows, an antivirus is not a bad idea… On Linux, a firewall and basic care are usually sufficient

I agree with you, but, it is also true that the overwhelming majority of ransomwares affect windows https://www.statista.com/statistics/701020/major-operating-systems-targeted-by-ransomware/

Linux is not a significant target despite being so diffused

Edit. For those downvoting, windows server is ~20% of the server market and it is second in that stat. GNU/Linux distros such as rhel, debian and so on are almost 80% of server market and still there are no sufficient attacks reported to end up in that stat