• hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Exactly. Neckbeards love to pretend open source magically has no security vulnerabilities, and that the ability to inspect the source means you’ll never install anything nefarious.

    I expect all of them to have read the source for every single package they’ve ever installed. Oh and the Linux source too, of course

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      5 months ago

      Yes, opensource doesn’t magically fix all vulnerabilities. But it is for sure way better then closed source, where you don’t have a way of auditing the code

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      5 months ago

      I have never seen anyone make that claim.

      Lots of arguments saying it’s an improvement, but never that it magically fixes everything.

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      Neckbeards love to pretend open source magically has no security vulnerabilities

      Who does? Feels like you’re just talking about inexperienced “btw i use arch” kinda skiddies

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      5 months ago

      Another classic lie. ‘Open source’ misses the point of libre software. Anti-libre software [malware] bans us [everyone else] from removing malicious source code.