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Fun with Red Star OS
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#12Off-topic: the font in this blog renders very poorly. I know the solution is to disable remote fonts in ublock origin, but that means that websites that use fonts to show icons will not work properly. Has anybody found a solution?
Not sure what you mean with "renders very poorly", is it just the font that doesn't look good for you or seems like a bug?
This is how it looks for me on Firefox/Ubuntu: https://imgur.com/a/WFx2okh
Seems fine, although I'd probably choose a different font myself.
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#13Off-topic: the font in this blog renders very poorly. I know the solution is to disable remote fonts in ublock origin, but that means that websites that use fonts to show icons will not work properly. Has anybody found a solution?
> Has anybody found a solution?
Frontend designers should stop using remote fonts, or fonts at all, for icons.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall reading a different “review” a few years back and they found it calling back home.
The OS seems to be re-developed from scratch each version. Perhaps it has changed.
Sounds like they finally worked out all the bugs from their malware and it is that much harder to detect.
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#15Of course this version is now super-outdated. Are there any new versions available?
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#16"The system is absolutely network-silent except when you actively do something that requires network access, like using the browser. It does not call the mothership, not for updates, not for telemetry, not to let Kim Jong Un know the status of your internal organs. Spoiler, he doesn’t give a fuck about your hentai porn. " Take that, Microsoft!
This could be true, or it could recognize that it is running in a VM and change its behavior. This is a somewhat common trait of malware meant to throw off security researchers.
Why are VMs so bad at virtualizing?
An ideal VM should be indistinguishable from a real machine.
For example a virtualized system running Android should generate fake IMU data, not sit at 0 linear acceleration all the time. And have a real-looking fake IMEI, not a string of 0s.
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#17Seems more privacy focused than Microsoft and Apple? So sad to even think that. Also, remember that China wouldn’t use Windows 10 due to how invasive the telemetry is unless Microsoft gave them a special version just for China.
I’m not saying that NK or China are privacy focused. It seems like even the spies don’t like to be spied on.
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#18Of course this version is now super-outdated. Are there any new versions available?
Red Star 4.0 (2017). Good luck finding it, I haven't.
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#19Is it really necessary to run third-party javascript that "checks my browser" (collects information about me?) before letting me read the article?
Like most of the modern web, yes.
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#20Is it really necessary to run third-party javascript that "checks my browser" (collects information about me?) before letting me read the article?
Was that not a proxy doing DDoS protection?