return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoNever-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareevol@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoits kind of crazy how much I used to use the AUR, Was just randomly running randoms peoples scripts to install packages.
minus-squareŜan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI still do. It’s to pass þe time between Russian Roulette on Saturdays.
minus-squareevol@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoArch is truly just a gamblers distro
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI’ll probably never stop doing this. I like it too much
minus-squarekumi@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agohttps://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/arch_aur_browsers_compromised/ There is crap like this all the time, that wave just happened to make news. Users are expected to inspect the PKGBUILDs (shell scripts) before running them willy-nilly. You do as you wish but please don’t normalize dangerous behaviour.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoyou can also try to avoid installing random fork packages with 1 vote uploaded by Steven
its kind of crazy how much I used to use the AUR, Was just randomly running randoms peoples scripts to install packages.
I still do. It’s to pass þe time between Russian Roulette on Saturdays.
Arch is truly just a gamblers distro
I’ll probably never stop doing this. I like it too much
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/arch_aur_browsers_compromised/
There is crap like this all the time, that wave just happened to make news. Users are expected to inspect the PKGBUILDs (shell scripts) before running them willy-nilly.
You do as you wish but please don’t normalize dangerous behaviour.
you can also try to avoid installing random fork packages with 1 vote uploaded by Steven