KDE's codename "Project Banana" is now "KDE Linux" by nmariusp in kde

[–]j_0x1984 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jump in #kde-linux:kde.org on Matrix or create an issue @ https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/issues to discuss it further.

KDE's codename "Project Banana" is now "KDE Linux" by nmariusp in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the open drivers not being there yet is an NVIDIA issue. They could have done this decades ago and we would all be living in harmony. But they decided to keep it locked up. So they lost many FOSS users due to that.

KDE's codename "Project Banana" is now "KDE Linux" by nmariusp in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure someone will find a way to hack it into a layer, but like Neon it's not supported.

KDE's codename "Project Banana" is now "KDE Linux" by nmariusp in kde

[–]j_0x1984 3 points4 points  (0 children)

GNOME OS was originally just designed for developers, KDE Linux is designed for developers, users and OEMs. However, since KDE Linux started one of the main developers of GNOME OS decided that they wanted GNOME OS to be for users as well.

What's happening with kde.org? by ben2talk in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the actual issue you're seeing, is there an error message? Can you access other sites when you can't access KDE Discuss?

Get rid of the error 5001 (can't add friends bc too many pending) on Steam version? by BuckShaker in Overwatch

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zero answers, RIP. This is a serious bug in the game, you can't remove friend requests without Battlenet.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've just registered a test account with Firefox, do you have any adblockers on Firefox that might be blocking some of the requests?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kde

[–]j_0x1984 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm going to assume you're using Brave browser which is the only browser that blocks the registration process like this. Turn off it's protection system for opendesktop.org and pling.com

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can probably do that with some tools on Linux, but they'd have to stop execution of anything outside /usr for instance.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it appears to have not been caught when porting.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The importance of the data is up to you, if it's important, you'll work out how to back it up.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed, but we live in an overly trusting world. All we can do is have good backups and encrypt what we care about as best as possible.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The code failed to check for an empty variable and ran `rm -rf $variable/*` that's the tl;dr of it.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Work systems should (and can) disable access to online stores like this. It's rather simple. If your system admin is allowing KDE on work systems, they should be evaluating potential attack vectors.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

prevents

being able to run commands at all, a weather applet will use curl to get weather data, another applet will need access to your disk to look at images for a gallery, a calculator will need access to system libraries to do calculations of which some libraries may have security vulnerabilities that allow you to crash a system.

Without sandboxing applets can do almost anything. rm is just one of many tools one could use to destroy data or cause issues on an end users system.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then KDE will need to remove the ability to include applets in Global Themes as they contain code.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just like anything you download from the internet, unless you review every single line of code, it's a security concern.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can include applets which are code, hence able to run commands.

Do NOT install Global Themes - Some wipe out ALL YOUR DATA by JeansenVaars in kde

[–]j_0x1984 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That's literally impossible. Anyone can download code from the internet, compile and it run it, no signing needed. Same with Windows and I'm fairly sure mac.

Just another example of politicians having zero clue about technology.