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  • Is flatpak the way?

    Steam can be installed natively or in a Flatpak. The latter can be a little fussy every once in a while, depending on your setup, but has the advantage of somewhat better sandboxing.

    CVE-2026-34078 CVE-2026-5674 CVE-2021-21261

    No no, tell me how its sandboxing is even adequate.

    In addition to ruining Single Source of Truth for installed state and weak validation and resource usage, it feeds you lies about sandboxes. AND YOU BELIEVED IT!









  • When the enterprise OS company I worked for in 2k1 was considering forking a Linux distro to offer as a freemium product, they evaluated enterprise Linux and Debian.

    Debian lost then as its package format had weaker validation and consistency guarantees. It’d’ve been harder to support.

    The packaging in both hasn’t changed much, except RH forgot how to use /etc/alternatives properly and now has some ungodly rinkydink thing supplementing it like a colo bag on the side, but the validation difference is still there.

    Maybe that was why. Both are riddled with fridge art - oh hi Systemd, network manager, et al - but both are generally similar other than packaging and pipeline.









  • as an American, and I’m sure I speak for most of us, we didn’t give a crap

    I get it. False consensus aside, it’s a trope that Americans don’t much care about things outside their borders. Many Americans never cross a border, and for many people if it doesn’t affect them directly then it’s just noise in a busy day.

    But with such long unguarded borders, minimal manufacturing, insufficient resources and a surplus of cash crops, it needs friends who will deal squarely with it and help secure those borders.

    And when the oil and electricity run short, I hope America is cool paying “market prices” if we’re no longer best-buds.