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  • You confused “obscurity” as in a synonym for low popularity with the word “obscurity” as in people not knowing how it works and people deliberately hiding the inner workings of a system.

    Everyone using Linux can know how it works, that’s the opposite of obscurity in the sense it is used within “security by obscurity”.

    Apart from that, Linux is very popular, just not on the Desktop. It is therefore not obscure in the sense of popularity either, at least the components which are hit by the bug mentioned in the article.






  • You can run Steam in Firejail and only give it access to the folders it needs. The same goes for games. Almost no penalty in execution speed (I’d wager <<1%). It already has a preconfigured profile for Steam, you just need to add your library folder if it’s somewhere else than your user folder.

    Steam already additionally runs games in a bubblewrap sandbox as far as I know.

    If you use GoG, you can install Heroic Launcher, which is open source. Then you can wrap the games you download with it in Firejail aswell.

    You can also run it in Flatpak and restrict folder access with Flatseal, but I often had issues with the Flatpak installation of Steam.

    If you have the money and can buy a DRM free game, please do so. Many games on Steam by Indie developers also have no DRM or only Steamworks DRM which can be circumvented by a sjngle .dll (or .so) replacement. Support Indie creators, but certainly do pirate games from larger studios.


  • The car fandom. The amount of people who can’t explain how a motor works but try to mansplain me how one motor is “better than the other” simply because it has more displacement is… Staggering.

    Someone recently told me that electrical motors are bad for the environment because you need to replace the brushes every few thousand kilometers.

    And to top it all off, apparently older cars are better for the environment because bigger motors run more efficiently when they’re not at 100% power. I nearly get an aneurysm talking to those people.