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Illecors, to linux in Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

Yes, very. This is not specific to Firefox, but anything running as root gets access to everything. Only one thing has to go wrong for the whole system to get busted.

usually logged into KDE Plasma as root.

Please don’t do this! DEs are not tested to be run as root! Millions of lines of code are expected to not have access to anything they shouldn’t have and as such might be built to fail quietly if accessing something they shouldn’t in the first place. Same thing applies to Firefox, really.

Illecors, (edited ) to linux in What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

Most of them.

  • Debian world - apt sucks. For something with a sole purpose of resolving a dependency tree, it’s surprisingly bad at that.
  • Redhat world - everything is soooo old. I can see why business people like it, buy I rarely, if ever, agree with business people.
  • Opensuse world - I’ve only tried it once, probably 15 years ago. Didn’t really know my way around computers all that much at the time, but it didn’t click and I’ve left it. Later on I found out about their selling out to Microsoft and never bothered touching it again.
  • Arch - it was my daily for a year or two. Big fan. It still runs my email. At some point the size of packages started to annoy me, though. Still has the best wiki. I’ve never really bothered with the spinoffs, as the model of Arch makes them useless and more problematic to deal with.

I’ve got the Gentoo bug now. For the first time I genuinely feel ~/. A lean, mean system of machines :)

Illecors, to asklemmy in Tech workers - what did your IT Security team do that made your life hell and had no practical benefit?

Hasn’t made life hell, but the general dumb following of compliance has left me baffled:

  • users must not be able to have a crontab. Crontab for users disabled.
  • compliance says nothing about systemd timers, so these work just fine 🤦

I’ve raised it with security and they just shrugged it off. Wankers.

Illecors, (edited ) to asklemmy in What's a food you forget you like? Then you eat it, and wonder why you don't buy it more often?

Pulled pork. And then I wonder why I don’t do it more often, and then remember that I prefer homemade one, and then I realise :::: spoiler ain’t nobody got time for that :( https://i.imgflip.com/1f0umb.jpg

Illecors, to privacy in Multiple Adblockers in a row - does it make sense or is it even harmful?

I personally only run pihole and ublock origin. Pihole takes care of the most stuff, ublock picks up the leftovers where domain blocking is not good enough. I’d like to believe this saves some juice on battery powered devices, but I’ve never actually measured it nor noticed it.

Illecors, to privacy in Two minutes of DuckDuckGo rearranging & dropping results for the same search; Bing, Startpage, & DDG all unreliable vs. Google :(

I get the same issue all the time lately. Search, click link, go back - clicked link gone, different results shown.

Illecors, to asklemmy in Is there such a thing as too much privacy?

People have used the following to scam, lie, commit fraud, etc

  • physical money
  • digital money
  • cryptocurrency
  • whatsapp
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • email
  • sms
  • phonecalls
  • etc

I don’t think it’s the privacy bit that makes people do shit things.

Illecors, (edited ) to linux in Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I don’t know the specifics on Fedora’s installer, but normally that question is about disabling root account, not logging into a DE.

Not sure what else to elaborate here. There’s a bunch of code that is not tested to be run as root. A whole class of exploits becomes unavailable, if you stick to an unprivileged user.

Say there’s some exploit that allows some component of KDE to be used to read a file. If it’s running under an unprivileged user - it sucks. Everything in user’s homedir becomes fair game. But if it runs as root - it’s simply game over. Everything on the system is accessible. All config, all bad config, files of all applications (databases come to mind). Everything.

Illecors, (edited ) to selfhosted in Could someone explain how to set up a lemmy instance with ansible for an absolute beginner

Do yourself a favour and don’t host it, yet. Lemmy is not quality software. You have 3 options here:

  • pay someone to take care of it for you
  • learn more about computer management and computers in general, first; then host it
  • ignore the first two options, which will inevitably lead to your instance crashing and burning

Best of luck!

Illecors, to opensource in PLZ good PeerTube alternative

Just in case you’re not a troll - host it yourself. It’s federated, like lemmy. You don’t need to be able to program.

Illecors, to opensource in Statement: Nextcloud stands for an open and free society - Nextcloud

Probably. Germany is having a bit of a fever with a fsr right party.

Illecors, to programmer_humor in Good luck web devs

I remember seeing the video of this. The guy was doing it for shits and giggles, but it ended up looking great!

Illecors, to piracy in "Piracy is a service issue.." (Image is a real story btw, link in post)

That’s… Not at all how it works.

Don’t worry, you’re one of today’s lucky 10000!

Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.

TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.

Illecors, to piracy in What are your thoughts on fiber through the city?

All the possibilities are up to your vpn.

Illecors, to linux in Help on BTRFS setup

Do I need to disable compression on my swap subvolume?

wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Swap_file

Is there anything else I should keep in mind for fstab if I want to, say, not keep track of my Downloads folder when snapshotting?

Just create a separate subvolume for it. Snapshots do not work recursively, so it will be left alone.


Mount options also only take effect on the first mount of the device. Since it looks like you only have 1 btrfs device - only / needs the options, really.

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