Someone buys a used Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The first-person shooter “Valorant” won’t start with it because the previous owner was a cheater.
  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Personally I tend to avoid running untrustworthy programs outside of a sandbox or VM.

    what does that mean? are you not running any programs at all? you cannot know just by looking at the name if a program reads such sensitive info. and its not unlikely that some developer figured it would be a good idea to include it in automatic crash reports

    yes, this is sensitive information. its like your fingerprint, you cannot change it. I think its quite obvious. web browsers firefox is fighting to hide more and more that even indirectly could lead to identification. websites can’t read this ID, this is just a comparison.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 day ago

        have you ever used Gentoo? if you do, you know how long it takes to build updated software from source code.

        vetting all that, even just the changes would take a lot more time. and it’s a constant effort.

        • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          14 hours ago

          Never used gentoo but i do build the software i use often

          vetting all that, even just the changes would take a lot more time. and it’s a constant effort.

          First of all, I am, like you and everyone else not alone in this, and for changes it’s sooo easy thanks to Git

          • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 hours ago

            yes, git is a godsend. but who will you trust that they checked the new code, and found nothing bad? different people have different expectations too.