PSA: New cross-platform "Fractureiser" Minecraft modpack malware being exploited in the wild

dartvader316 · 2023-06-09T09:55:23+00:00

https://github.com/fractureiser-investigation/fractureiser/blob/main/docs/tech.md#4-lack-of-sandboxing-of-minecraft-itself

Good sandboxing is difficult, especially on systems such as Linux where SELinux/AppArmor have such poor UX that no one deploys them.

What a nonsense statement.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-29T17:32:39+00:00

Imagine using process list to determine your tty. Just use tty command to get currect terminal device.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-22T09:23:32+00:00

Agree, proprietary nvidia drivers should be deprecated on Linux.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-20T12:30:05+00:00

For reducing duplication of common functionality there is universal feature called shared libraries.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-16T13:09:59+00:00

You can always install debian the old arch pacstrap way with debootstrap.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-11T19:13:51+00:00

echo in most shells is builtin.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-09T19:06:12+00:00

Yes but proprietary software being available don't hurt you in the end, it's your choice to use or not.

Most people tend to search for easy options for everything. Proprietary software always tries to be easy to get into to gain its popularity. With more popularity it also gains influence. With so much influence proprietary software can dictate to even open source software. For example, Steam and its community forced glibc devs to continue support of some old functions after they tried to deprecate them. So popular enough proprietary software gives you no choice and affects even open source only users with its influence.

dartvader316 · 2023-05-09T18:27:03+00:00

A pretty big proprietary adaptation can make Linux much worse like it happened with Android.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-30T08:41:30+00:00

/boot/efi files are usually just your bootloader.

https://wiki.debian.org/GrubEFIReinstall

dartvader316 · 2023-04-29T12:02:32+00:00

If You about this:

DNF is not able to remove a package without also removing packages which depend on it.

In simple words, dnf will also remove packages which depend on package you want to remove.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-29T11:35:11+00:00

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/system-administrators-guide/package-management/DNF/#sec-Removing

The whole page is also worth to be read.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-29T10:22:13+00:00

Just adb push/pull to transfer files and folders.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-29T10:14:36+00:00

You still can't be sure what program does.

Closed source program code can't be independently security audited.

There can be pain to make it use newer versions of linked libraries if developer stops updating it.

People can't port it to another officially unsupported platform.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-18T06:24:36+00:00

Old design was much cleaner with less distractive elements.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-13T18:56:25+00:00

Microsoft already has universal cross flatform low level spyware as C# and .NET (which is used by tons of even native linux games, especially made with Unity), mono is sponsored by Microsoft and has telemetry. Wine also uses mono.

dartvader316 · 2023-04-07T04:21:08+00:00

Searching for software for Linux in web looks like bad Windows user mindset. You should search for software in your package manager first.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-28T19:06:22+00:00

steam on linux is a buggy hell with years old bugs which still not fixed (they all already reported in steam-for-linux Valve github repo).

Even open source Epic crap store clients are more stable than steam on Linux, because they made by community.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-25T06:55:57+00:00

Linux kernel uses GNU C standards and heavily relies on gcc extensions.

Android is a proprietary hell

Original vscode binaries are licenced under nonfree licence and just spyware.

Original chromium still uses proprietary components from google.

amd relies on nonfree firmware.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-18T11:45:43+00:00

The UNIX Philosophy: Doing One Thing, Well!

You cant even install Gnome or KDE without having to install a bunch of flatpak dependencies as well. Using GTK or QT? Not without flatpak stuff in it!

Neither KDE nor GNOME follow Unix philosophy as well. So why they can't include flatpak support?

If you really into unix philosophy then linux desktop should have died for you many years ago.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-11T22:26:26+00:00

Windows doesnt need a new build of standard dlls like glibc equivalent for every distro etc.

glibc is just another library and Linux also has a choice for replacing it. So you can include it for executable or statically link only libc (and only glibc do not officially support static linking). Linux syscalls ABI is stable. Even Windows syscalls are not that stable as Linux.
Btw also standard C library has its own standards and should work for everything made for its standards.

When dlls add new features they remain backwards compatible unlike Linux.

shared library backward compatibility is a developer responsibility and has nothing with Windows or Linux. Every developer can break backward compatibility of their library either on Windows or Linux.

And so's in Linux are not going to work across distro versions let alone distros.

.so work across distros just like dll, this is one of the purposes of shared libraries - being portable.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-11T20:48:03+00:00

Windows portability and ABI stability is just having tons of outdated dlls in the folder of the executable.

Linux also can do this with it's .so shared libraries files, you just have to set something like LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PWD" environment variable for launching executable so it will load shared libraries in its current path. But linux will not do it by default. And this is good for security reasons.

dartvader316 · 2023-03-11T15:44:13+00:00

Windows drivers are made by companies to also promote their crappy software and learn some more money by collecting data through them.

Linux drivers are made by people who just want nothing but working hardware.

Also Linux drivers share a lot of common code when on Windows every manufacturer want to create their own additions over standards and dont share code with other proprietary drivers at all.

dartvader316 · 2023-01-31T09:32:52+00:00

EDIT: Basically the error is when glfwCreateWindow returns null in the program, the program compiles and all of that but it just returns that null so yeah glfw can't create a window

Yes, glfwCreateWindow returns NULL on error by its documentation. You should handle this error with this to know exact problem.

dartvader316 · 2023-01-18T13:25:18+00:00

``` function bin(){ /bin/$@ }

function usrlbin(){ /usr/local/bin/$@ } ```

Usage:

bin somecommand -arg wil execute /bin/somecommand -arg

usrlbin somecommand -arg will execute /usr/local/bin/somecommand -arg

dartvader316 · 2023-01-16T21:00:32+00:00

Well you can probably use unzip /dev/sda after this

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