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Re: Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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Post by skydhash »

sergiotapia wrote: post #350
skydhash wrote: post #305

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> 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.

I encourage you to think more outside of the box and dream. There is much more you are able to do now, that would have been impossible 2 years ago! :D https://x.com/SergioTapiaDev/status/2094187967900266573

That’s like one of two lines of i3status. Awesome if you need something like this one and built it. But don’t pretend that there aren‘t myriad solutions out there that have solved a lot of possible use cases.

Re: Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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Post by newspaper1 »

addajones wrote: post #369
newspaper1 wrote: post #253

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> He's a person, just like you are. He's not like me. I've never posted racist hate filled rants to the internet.

[flagged]

Not sure what you mean? Are you agreeing with what DHH has said?

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Post by newspaper1 »

addajones wrote: post #368
jarek-foksa wrote: post #246

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He clearly "suffers" from narcissistic personality disorder, trying to change him is a waste of time. Even if he was a normal person, I see no rational reason for him to change his behavior given how successful he is.

So he’s a lost cause to you? You decided already? So much doom and gloom in your response.

Yes, he’s a lost cause: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...

Re: Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root

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Post by rglover »

yoyohello13 wrote: post #274

And the cycle continues. It’s funny seeing Omarchy (DHH) becoming popular when we had LARBS (Luke Smith) 8-10 years ago. Something about a controversial personality pushing a window manager install script is really appealing to people I guess. At least it brings awareness that other desktop paradigms exist. Although after years of ‘optimizing’ my tiling window manager I just ended up back on KDE.

"That Luke Smith?" Yep.

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Post by cogman10 »

sva_ wrote: post #300
inigyou wrote: post #209

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Isn't the other half of AI that we can afford to look for exploits in one-off software?

I am not sure how someone would run an LLM on my computer to look for exploits as the source code is only available on my machine?

Yeah, I could literally open up a port on my computer which executes everything sent to it. As a bespoke app, it's pretty unlikely that it would ever be exploited even though it's ridiculously dangerous.

To be at risk, you'd first need to publish your application. The attacker would separately have to figure out how to identify and access your computer for attack.

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Post by tomrod »

lrvick wrote: post #146
jorvi wrote: post #143

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You do realize you can do the exact same thing on macOS? Just alias sudo to whatever you want. BSD I assume you can do the same with doas. No desktop system is safe from your attack, unless you take specific precautions like chattr on the file or chmodding your home directory, but that can lead to weird breakage.

No popular Linux desktop, I would grant you. I use QubesOS and my own distro, stagex.

TIL. Thanks for your input into how sudo might not be super secure on systems already dribbling with malware.

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Post by ghthor »

If you editing your system config with an LLM and tool calls, why wouldn’t you just use NixOS. At least if the agent broke your system, you can basically recreate it from scratch in under 30mins (some things still might be outside the system/home-manager config). But yeah, then you get diffs of what the agent changed in a nixos/home-manager change.

I see almost zero reason for anyone to use anything else for they’re base system at this point.

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Post by prmoustache »

kennywinker wrote: post #66
bundie wrote: post #36

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Just use Fedora. It just werks (most times).

I like the very non-windows very non-mac ui of omarchy.

Fedora (or debian, or archlinux or whatever distro you choose) doesn't force you into an UI. All of them have minimal, server and/or "flavored" versions and you can always uninstall and install whatever you want.

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Post by 8organicbits »

dotancohen wrote: post #326
drnick1 wrote: post #287

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> I always make my user part of the docker group I don't, and I migrated to Podman because Docker is poorly designed and full of footguns. For example, it it will silently overwrite iptables rules and punch holes in your firewall.

I'm sorry, what? As an avid Docker user, where should I begin reading about these issues?

Official docs cover those:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/firewall-iptables/

https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/linux-postinstall/

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