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"Someone" didn't find that, AI found it. So it's not clear what your point is about vibe coding. Would humans have noticed this problem, especially given that it's not remotely exploitable? (you have to plug in a malicious USB device).
I think they mean that Omarchy is pretty much vibe-coded. Probably just an assumption.
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"Someone" didn't find that, AI found it. So it's not clear what your point is about vibe coding. Would humans have noticed this problem, especially given that it's not remotely exploitable? (you have to plug in a malicious USB device).
The fact comments like this get downvoted because what they say is inconvenient is one of the major signs AI has fundamentally broken HN. It was already hard to have technical conversations in public, now there is a contingent determined to make it utterly impossible, and they are succeeding.
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Add that annoying theo guy to that list. Cant stand these people, they confidently push out videos like they're experts, a week later it turns out whatever they were talking about was total crap and they've already abandoned it - case in point OpenClaw. Look at the mess of videos those named above put out about it, not a single one uses it anymore.
Not a single mention of Pirate Software yet?
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#344Im not an Omarchy user but we now live in a world where most of the actions (including ones the llm asks users to run as root) originate from somewhere other than the users brain.
There will be a reckoning in terms of how we think about trust and auth in coming years. It’s just a matter of increasing severity of incidents .
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There is. Simply do not install sudo and do not allow access to root at runtime. I am serious. There is absolutely nothing you cannot run unprivileged these days. Can even run sshd from a systemd user unit in your home folder, and even assign port 22 to it if needed with Linux Capabilities.
Just don't be in the sudo group.
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Wow. This never crossed my mind but of course that's so simple. There really needs to be a better solution.
on Windows the UAC (GUI sudo equivalent) requires actual user input (keyboard, mouse) on a dialog presented in a secure way (can't be faked by malware)
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#347Docker has supported running rootless mode for years. I packaged the docker-rootless into Arch/AUR over 4 years ago, so it's been around and stable that long.
Sure, on a server dedicated to running docker containers, maybe it makes sense for the marginal improvements to network latency. But otherwise, rootless should always be the default.
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#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Someone" didn't find that, AI found it. So it's not clear what your point is about vibe coding. Would humans have noticed this problem, especially given that it's not remotely exploitable? (you have to plug in a malicious USB device).
I think they mean that Omarchy is pretty much vibe-coded. Probably just an assumption.
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Officially omakase (clueless chef decides your menu with security issues) and arch linux. The fact that it is almost an anagram of monarchy is probably a plus for DHH.
Thank you! Sounds horrible. I don’t know what a DHH is though, probably not important.
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On the flipside, once you use an OS that is totally open to agentic stuff, there's no going back really. I can open Pi and ask it to fix some window tiling issue, help me install shortcuts, help me figure out how to install flatpak vs appimage, etc. the list is endless. I cannot see myself going back to a legacy OS unless I'm forced to by my job for compliance reasons.
> etc. the list is endless. Why is the list endless? I don’t even remember the last time I check or change any on my mac settings. And my unix things haven’t been touched in months. My debian server is basically frozen at this point.