This is FUD. It definitely is not a “critical” security feature. Firefox flatpak can’t currently do its own internal sandboxing of subprocesses via namespaces, but it does do seccomp bpf filtering. That’s in addition to the standard sandboxing of flatpak itself, which is implemented using namespaces anyways.

If you are extra paranoid, you can tweak the flatpak’s permissions to harden the sandboxing via your distro’s flatpak settings app.

Flatpaks are containerized, making them both more reliable and more secure (in general… but it’s always possible to fuck things up).

Besides the benefits to users, there are also huge benefits to developers: they can publish a single package and support nearly every distro with it.

It’s often impossible for a dev to publish and maintain packages for all Linux distros out there, so stuff on AUR is built and packaged by well-meaning, but random people who are not the original developer. This very often leads to the app having bugs and compatibility issues which the developer ends up wasting time debugging and trying to fix even though it’s not their fault. (although downstream packagers can fuck this up too by publishing their own unofficial Flatpaks, like Fedora’s recent OBS shenanigans)

I tend to go with Flathub before the AUR, if available.

This is the correct way to Linux in 2025

I actually love the name “techno mechanicus”. The others are just weird, but I find that one laugh out loud hilarious.

Dexter Morgan is a better hero than Batman ever was

Turns out that Reddit is a lot easier to quit than most people claim or realize. I still end up there from web searches occasionally, because some communities just don’t exist in lemmy (also lemmy frankly sucks as a place for finding niche communities due to fragmentation and shitty search tools). But besides that, there’s nothing particularly compelling about reddit anymore.

I wonder where people are going though? They’re definitely not coming here unless they’re an adult male technology/linux nerd.

I don’t trust anyone who invented Javascript.

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That would be very entertaining, but anyone who is fanatical enough to make pokemon fan music probably wouldn’t dream of causing their favorite company harm.

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That’s where most of the gains come from

Soon, not even roids will be enough. No human will be able to compete with AI perfection, and at best they’ll just use people to record reference footage or something.

This is some middle school bullying type shit

Only if they’re declared in the snippet.

Has there ever been a study from like an anthropologist/evolutionary biologist or something about why the :) smiley won out over the =) smiley? I used to be a =) guy back in the day, but over time felt pressured to switch to :) because everyone else was using it. Now, whenever I see someone use =) I just assume they’re a boomer or something.

I hope you’re being sarcastic because that kind of deranged conspiracy theory nonsense being taken seriously is why this country is so comprehensively fucked in the head.

…also, the whole genx/millenial/genz/etc labels are specifically a thing from marketing. They teach that stuff in business schools because it actually is useful to divide a population like that. The edges are gray, but people squarely in the middle of one of those demographics are more likely to be caricatures of it.

You shut your whore mouth.

My petty revolt is to rapidly tap the corner where the skip button usually is. I KNOW they’re seeing that on their analytics. Assholes.

A Dark Brandon is spotted in the wild!

Does your own pleasure justify harm against others?

I have (genuinely) tried really hard over the years to try and see it that way. To try to feel bad about the idea that an animal died so that I could eat it.

It has never worked, not even a little bit. I’ve been on a farm a few times and have seen my food killed right in front of me, yet it never bothered me neither as a child nor an adult. The most I can do is pretend to care so that other people think I’m a saint, but I genuinely am not capable of feeling anything for the animals that I’m eating. I wonder if that’s a biological thing? Like some people are born without the genes that make you sad about this type of thing.

Idk, but in any case, appeals to emotion have never worked on me, and will never work on me. I know there are logical, non-emotional reasons to avoid eating animals, but when I see vegan discussions online focusing on the emotional side of it, I just eye roll and leave. I guess it’s ironic, but a lot of vegans I’ve met IRL and online are lacking empathy.