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• Nerds when they finally meet up

  on nerds irl rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago

• I suppose I should give the full story. I have checked them a few times, and two of which had their maintainers altered. Under the recent AUR attack, I believe that’s been a requirement for malicious alterations to seep in, yet I don’t entirely know what the malicious alterations look like in code. Three of the four packages ship default with CachyOS, with the stray one being added by myself. Conveniently enough, the one I added myself is the one I trust the most and actually feel confident enough in my auditing of.

  As for removing unnecessary packages, yeah that’s a fair point. Much as I like Cachy for being an easy-to-use Arch based distro, it does bring a handful of bloat with it. Suppose I’ve just been afraid I’d be removing a dependency.

  on Pacrule - Syu in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026

• I’ve been doing my updates routinely, but man, I’ll be damned if I let any of my AUR packages update yet. Ever since the last big ‘hack’ happened to the AUR, I’ve been fearing it like mad. It may only be four packages, but mmmmmm I’ve got my concerns.

  on Pacrule - Syu in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 Sep 2026

• You mean I can like, be in VrChat? Like my character, and my friends, and all these amazing places to go to? Dude sign me up, that’s my escape from reality.

  on Picked the wrong day to start a Red Dead Redemption 2 replay rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 Aug 2026

• Thanks for the dive into that. We seem to all mutually accept that stories may not be told with complete factuality or nonbias in the modern day, whereby metrics such as website traffic is how revenue is often generated. Furthermore, if a political bias is present in a source, we all seem to understand that it may undermine the factuality. I say this to put forth that while we may agree with sentiments of pro-privacy topics, our sources are not inherently better than sources opposed to our beliefs, and that misinformation can appear anywhere, and not entirely due to malicious intent.

  Thanks for being the fact-checker here.

  on Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026