muhyb@programming.dev to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoIf it ain't broke, don't fix iti.ibb.coimagemessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI mean that’s the whole deal for me. I can take it if I know I can fix it There is no fixing microsoft
minus-squareViceversa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months ago There is no fixing microsoft But there is. People create their own fixes, configurations and utilities all the time.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoBy reverse engineering black box shit, then providing binaries everyone is just supposed to trust don’t also contain malware?
minus-squareteslekova@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoYeah, because they usually don’t. One reason I started using Linux was that I started caring more about security. However, Windows tweaking apps never burned me.
minus-squaredjdarren@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAnd those binaries are to fix the black box shit that is subject to alteration at any time, rendering them useless.
I mean that’s the whole deal for me. I can take it if I know I can fix it
There is no fixing microsoft
But there is. People create their own fixes, configurations and utilities all the time.
By reverse engineering black box shit, then providing binaries everyone is just supposed to trust don’t also contain malware?
Yeah, because they usually don’t. One reason I started using Linux was that I started caring more about security. However, Windows tweaking apps never burned me.
Still
And those binaries are to fix the black box shit that is subject to alteration at any time, rendering them useless.