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Cake day: July 6th, 2024

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  • No, it’s actual reality. There are more than a hundred thousand packages in the AUR. There are explicit warnings that these are user content and should be used with care.

    And now a miniscule percentage (~1%) of orphaned packages, so those with very little interest in, are taken over by some malicious actors to spread malware.

    And people suddenly pretend like this is a catastrophe for Linux (no one cares) and for Arch and it’s derivates (who don’t operate the AUR be definition and explicitly warn against using it without caution). If I told you that not 1, but 10% of the most obscure software packages you can download and install on Windows are pure malware, you wouldn’t even blink an eye. And yet all the morons now come crawling from their caves flooding everything with memes and bullshit of “haha, now we know you lied to us and Linux isn’t secure at all!”.


  • Sadly it’s often just marketing. The amount of devices marketed for Windows/MacOS/Linux that runs barely if at all with shitty ported drivers is still much too high.

    As is the amount of hardware perfectly supported by the Linux kernel for more than a decade yet not officially supported at all.



  • While I understand the idea in general Tux, the penguin, is basically freely available, do whatever you want with it, and you are explicitly encouraged to integrate the design into Linux related projects… as long as you mention the author should someone ask (source)

    I wouldn’t even buy a pre-fabricated sticker but do one myself. But that wasn’t the question…

    PS: the Impressum here or here, down at the bottom labeled “Impressum”?