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400+ Arch Linux AUR Packages Compromised in a Supply Chain Attack Deploying Infostealers

I think a lot of people are confusing what the AUR actually IS. It is NOT the official package repository used by Archlinux - it's more like a bunch of community install scripts for stuff that isn't officially supported yet - for popularity or other reasons.

So for all those people complaining and saying "debian does it better" it's very likely that you would not even HAVE a package to install and would have to come up with a build script on your own - the AUR allows you to skip this and instead just verify that the script itself isn't malicious, which is usually fairly obvious.

A lot of people here seem to be under the impression that all of this effort should be abstracted for them - but that's what you chose when you left windows - a system that you control intimately with a necessitation to actually do some upkeep yourself because a giant company isn't doing it for you.

In other words. RTFM and stop expecting other people fix all your problems for you, because that's exactly how windows got to how it currently is.

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Mullvad controversy

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What a defeatist perspective. It's not all or nothing, and a VPN is something I can very easily change, especially when the co-owner of the VPN is one of the only major donors of a giant alt right party

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I hate jeeps as much as the next guy but glass transmission subarus being at the top of the list for reliability, as well as the fact that the rating is based off of "user predicted reliability" tells me everything I need to know about this list

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Looking for a wayland based tiling window manager

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Thought it was common knowledge at this point...

Creator of hyperland:

[A trans person] joined the Discord server and made a big deal out of their pronouns [..] because they put their pronouns in their nickname and made a big deal out of them because people were referring to them as “he” [misgendering them], which, on the Internet, let’s be real, is the default. And so, one of the moderators changed the pronouns in their nickname to “who/cares”. […] Let’s be real, this isn’t like, calling someone the N-word or something.

a screenshot from their discord:

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An open source repairable printer.

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Oh ok, because in the country + area that YOU live in there's a wealth of printers you can apparently find in dumpsters, and because YOU have both the physical ability and time avaliable to go diving in dumpsters, THE ENTIRE WORLD does not need a new printer??

I need some of whatever you are smoking

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Need to lose 15lbs in less than a week? I got you.

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The reality is the majority of all healthy food in the US is gated behind high prices, forcing the average/low income consumer into eat foods high in large amounts of globally banned dyes and syrups, which results in massive weight gain unless you buy into the weight loss meds, unless you want to do something crazy like eat beans and rice for every meal.

this + all the hostile city planning preventing you from walking anywhere means that it's both very easy to gain weight and very hard to lose it once you have it

Anyway, this is a harder problem to solve than dumb gotchas like "why don't americans just exercise more, why don't americans just calorie watch"