https://lemmy.ml/post/311578/comment/205387

Are we talking about liberals or libertarians?

According to wikipedia, these are not the same thing:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

Yeah, it does have fewer features than older admin portals like webmin, etc

Start with the home page: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/

There are a few “introduction” resources and an FAQ linked there that seem like a good start

The “dbus” part is really the hard part of working with xdg-desktop-portal, at least in my own experience

I’ve raised https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs/-/issues/3

Oh, nice

And it looks like the “zbus” library that I’m using exposes the equivalent functionality: https://docs.rs/zbus/2.1.1/zbus/fdo/struct.DBusProxy.html#method.get_connection_unix_process_id

So far, from what I’ve learned about dbus and xdg-desktop-portal messages, we could definitely have catch-all hooks like that ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs/-/issues/2 )

What’s not clear to me yet, however, is how i can trace the ownership of such messages back to the processes that initiated them

dbus sender/receiver IDs are just arbitrary text, and don’t seem to have a reliable relationship with the caller

I do have this on my roadmap though ( https://gitlab.com/jokeyrhyme/xdp-hook-rs#roadmap )

If we get behavioural advertising banned everywhere, then there will be no profit in collecting this data, and Google will stop doing it: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-online-behavioral-advertising

Let’s get back to advertising based only on current context, and eliminate the entire business model based on tracking our behaviour over time

A truly patriotic party is beholden to local oligarchs (e.g. billionaires) instead of foreign oligarchs

I guess a better parallel is using C/C++ to write software, where it is trivially easy to mismanaged memory in ways that cause 70% of CVEs

If we were being consistent, we’d be trying to eliminate all software written in any language or framework where it is trivially easy to introduce security issues

I wonder how many anti-Electron folks are also logically anti-C/C++ ?

You mean how like nobody ever ever pipes the output of curl into a bash with root privileges? :P

Maybe we should ban cURL when we ban Electron?

An Electron app has full access to your filesystem and to other system resources, the same as any other desktop app

Is there a specific reason or example for why we say it has terrible security here?

Chromium has an incredibly advanced and optimised graphics pipeline and the code that is running in the “web” part of an Electron app benefits from Chromium’s sandbox

People complain about Electron, but without it there would probably be even fewer cross-platform apps today

Some aspects of it might be less than perfect, but let’s not allow perfect to be the enemy of good

Electron doesn’t automatically mean that an app is bad, just like Unity doesn’t automatically mean that a game is good

I prefer Zig, Rust, Go, and every other programming language that isn’t the cause of 70% of CVEs

Humans are just bad at managing memory safety, so why encourage the use of such tools?

I had used sway for a year or so and liked it

Then a switched to river ( https://github.com/riverwm/river ) a few months ago, it’s also fine

I’m on a very slow mission to remove C/C++ from my setup, otherwise I’d still be on sway

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

There’s Nuclear? https://nuclear.js.org/

Helping to standardise a global dark mode preference is nice

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/291810-for-the-master-s-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-master-s-house

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.

• Audre Lorde

Meh, I’ve been using the official Firefox flatpak, and I love that my web browser has no access whatsoever to my ~/.ssh private keys, or anything else I don’t want it to be able to read