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[–] fr0g@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does installing packages or configuring software work, if system files can't be changed?

On reboot. You install your changes into a separate part of the filesystem that's not running and then "switch parts" on next boot. Different distros do this differently. Vanilla OS has an AB system which basically works like Android does it, openSUSE uses btrfs snapshots and Fedora also uses btrfs I think but they got a more complex layering system on top.

I get that there's a security benefit just in that malware can't change system files -- but that is achieved by proper permission management on traditional systems too.

Is it though? All it takes is a misconfiguration or exploit to bypass it, so having several layers of protection isn't a bad thing and how any reasonably secure system works. And having parts of your system predetermined as read only is a comparably tough nut to crack.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This might also be a good place to congregate

https://kbin.social/m/kbinDesign/

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

No, the API isn't ready yet. But that isn't stopping some people
https://tech.lgbt/@hariette/110545151572492176

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. The real life thing is carefully guided process with serious obligations in which the professionally trained and educated judge is still the main arbiter. The jury is segmented to a very specific part of the process with a clear protocol for a reason.

What you're asking for is giving every Xth rando a police badge because law enforcement is understaffed.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think it might be worth exploring making them more bean-shaped as opposed to the more ball-shaped appearance they have now.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Merge in what way? In terms of user interaction, they already are merged. Lemmy users can comment and make threads in kbin communities and vice versa.

And in terms of underlying codebase, there isn't anything to merge. Lemmy and kbin are written in two very different programming languages. Trying to unify them would mean huge amounts of effort for no tangible gain.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a conundrum. Lemmygrad is the most egregious part of it and easy to block thankfully.
But I agree with some of the other posters that lemmy.ml is still pretty bad in terms of what gets allowed and who gets modetated. Luckily, this still is not an unsolvable problem in a federated world. Of course lemmy.ml could also just be blocked, but many instances will probably be reluctant to do that, as it also hosts some of the bigger communities currently. But we can make an effort to prioritize non lemmy.ml communities over their counterpart, a different meme community over memes@lemmy.ml etc, and if consensus is strong enough and enough communities shift, lemmy.ml could theoretically find itself in a position where it will have to clean up their moderation practices or risk wider defederation.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's a bit of a conundrum. Lemmygrad is the most egregious part of it and easy to block thankfully.
But I agree with some of the other posters that lemmy.ml is still pretty bad in terms of what gets allowed and who gets modetated. Luckily, this still is not an unsolvable problem in a federated world. Of course lemmy.ml could also just be blocked, but many instances will probably be reluctant to do that, as it also hosts some of the bigger communities currently. But we can make an effort to prioritize non lemmy.ml communities over their counterpart, a different meme community over memes@lemmy.ml etc, and if consensus is strong enough and enough communities shift, lemmy.ml could theoretically find itself in a position where it will have to clean up their moderation practices or risk wider defederation.

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Fwiw Lemmy is written in Rust

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The reputations system is still a bit messed up and still works like in th earlier days when upvotes were actually boosts. It's probably gonna get changed eventually.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/80

[–] fr0g@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most magazines that come from other services are auto-created by "ernest" I think

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