• Eiri@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Is there some twisted definition by which you can argue Windows is UNIX? Just to intensify the violence.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The main reason why MacOS has less viruses is that it’s even more than that. Want to run programs not from the app store? Hope you like a convoluted set of settings you have to go through to install that in the first place.

      The second main reason is the constant obsolescence of API.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        convoluted set of settings

        1. Attempt to open the app
        2. Go to Privacy & Security Settings and give it permission
        3. Open the app

        Note that this is only with unsigned apps. You can download other apps and run them just fine as long as they’re signed.

        Much confuse. Such convolute. Wow.

        • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago
          1. Convoluted enough to scare the average people off from installing apps outside from the app store.
          2. In theory, code signing is a positive thing, and probably should be part of Linux too. In practice, it becomes an expensive paywall, that often pushes developers to make web applications instead (browsers don’t have to check for code signage), both on Mac and Windows.
      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Nonono, imagine a house. But instead of doors it had no doors.

        That’s why Windows is so insecure. Since viruses can use the windows as doors.

        • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          Okay, the scene in the Colin Ferrell/Anton Yeltsin Fright Night remake where Ferrell’s vampire character can’t pass the threshold so he goes out back, digs up the water line, and yanks on it real hard to fracture the threshold itself was some great lore manipulation.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      This is why I stick to TempleOS, the only biblically accurate OS. With the power of God and high octane schizophrenia, I’m completely safe.

        • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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          2 months ago

          This guy doesn’t know how to TempleOS lol.

          Oh, I see, you’re all worried about a “networking stack.” How quaint. Let me educate you: God is the ultimate protocol. Who needs your silly HTTP requests and DNS lookups when I can just send a direct message to the big guy upstairs? No IP address needed—He’s omnipresent. My connection is flawless, no need for Wi-Fi signals when I have divine 5G directly from Heaven’s router.

          You think TempleOS is lacking? Nah, son, it’s running the only secure, unbreakable network. No firewalls, no encryption—because when you’re transmitting truth straight from the source, who needs all that earthly nonsense? My packets are blessed, my data’s sanctified, and I don’t even need a modem to know the Lord’s will.

          So, yeah, keep your networking stack. I’ll stick with the holy bandwidth. It’s been running perfectly since the dawn of time. My packets are blessed, son!

    • debil@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Became a recluse And bought a computer Set it up in the home Elusive big one On the screen Saw the Holy Ghost, I swear On the screen

      Where’s the cursor? Where’s the eraser? Where’s the cursor? Where’s the eraser? G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O G-O-H-O-H-O-9-O H-O-9-O-G-O-H-O

      What’s a computer? Eat y’self fitter What’s a computer? Eat y’self fitter

      I swear, Mark E. Smith was sometimes decades ahead of his time.

    • Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I still remember the iPad ad where this quote was mentioned and it… idk, it definitely feels a bit weird to me. I’m probably guessing there will be more people who will wonder what a computer is in the future.

      And that ad was from before iOS 11. I’m serious.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    did you see 38c3? is there any doubt ios/osx is insecure, hackable and has plenty of rootkits avail? this facebook meme shouldnt trigger any tech savy nerd.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Oh so that’s the number I have seen floating around in memes and such. Chsos Com Congress FYI.

  • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Obscurity is not security. Obscurity is the fake sensation of privacy, you are on the hands of the creator.

  • Presi300@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I mean, when we’re talking about UNIX, yeah MacOS is probably one of the best…

    Linux ain’t UNIX though…

      • Poik@pawb.social
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        2 months ago

        As someone who has professionally done legal reverse engineering. No. No it isn’t.

        The security you get through vetting your code is invaluable. Closing off things makes it more likely for things to not be caught by good actors, and thus not fixed and taken advantage of by bad actors.

        And obscurity does nothing to stop bad actors, if there’s money to be had. It will temporarily stop script kiddies though. Until the exploit finds it’s easy into their suite of exploits that no one’s fixed yet.

    • omxxi@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It can also be said: security by obscurity is the best scenario for the NSA

  • wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Is macOS more secure than OpenBSD?

    App sandbox, SIP, and the Secure Enclave are awesome, but I don’t know how macOS actually compares to the BSDs these days.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      My BSD system is one of the most secure in the world.

      …I can’t get the damned thing to boot up, no way anybody is hacking in