On 8/7/25 3:36 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:00:44 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
All these years, from my first Linux distro SLS (Softlanding Linux System) in 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
I have been root and never ever had a problem.
Of course. Running as root is the only sensible option.
These security weirdos, if one were to ask them to explain,
in explicit technical detail, how a personal workstation
running root could ever be comprised, they could not ever
answer.
That's because they are technically stupid. They understand
nothing. All that they can do is parrot, or ape, the standard
line.
Heck. I can train a monkey to shine my shoes but I sure
as fuck would not want that monkey to administer my GNU/Linux
machines.
As an example, I can mention Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) and
those security buffoons wouldn't know what the fuck I am talking
about. Yet BPF is a major security hole and a LOT of mitigations
are built around it -- but, for a personal workstation BPF is
totally superfluous and can be easily eliminated.
Other examples abound.
In conclusion, all those that, for a personal workstation, advocate
these common security "mitigations" are clueless idiots that
belong in the monkey cage at the local zoo.
You're a fucking idiot, dude. I don't even know a lot about Linux's >internals or anything,
When hearing a barking dog, no sane human being would try to explain to
it why it's wrong. For the same reason no one could teach a dog to
understand something, no one could teach a chair and, of course, no one
could teach you anything. So, everyone let you bark and avoid loosing
time to explain to you the basic of computer management.
On 8/9/25 11:20 AM, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
Stéphane CARPENTIER <[email protected]> writes:
When hearing a barking dog, no sane human being would try to explain toAnd yet you are responding to them, multiple times...
it why it's wrong. For the same reason no one could teach a dog to
understand something, no one could teach a chair and, of course, no one
could teach you anything. So, everyone let you bark and avoid loosing
time to explain to you the basic of computer management.
Yeah, because the audience should hear refutations of Larry's nutty
bullshit.
Stéphane has the right answers. Larry gets pwned time and again. But
keeps posting his stupid nonsense, endlessly. Really pathetic.
On 8/7/25 3:36 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
On Thu, 07 Aug 2025 08:00:44 GMT, Jan Panteltje wrote:
All these years, from my first Linux distro SLS (Softlanding Linux System) in 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softlanding_Linux_System
I have been root and never ever had a problem.
Of course. Running as root is the only sensible option.
These security weirdos, if one were to ask them to explain,
in explicit technical detail, how a personal workstation
running root could ever be comprised, they could not ever
answer.
That's because they are technically stupid. They understand
nothing. All that they can do is parrot, or ape, the standard
line.
Heck. I can train a monkey to shine my shoes but I sure
as fuck would not want that monkey to administer my GNU/Linux
machines.
As an example, I can mention Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) and
those security buffoons wouldn't know what the fuck I am talking
about. Yet BPF is a major security hole and a LOT of mitigations
are built around it -- but, for a personal workstation BPF is
totally superfluous and can be easily eliminated.
Other examples abound.
In conclusion, all those that, for a personal workstation, advocate
these common security "mitigations" are clueless idiots that
belong in the monkey cage at the local zoo.
You're a fucking idiot, dude. I don't even know a lot about Linux's internals or anything, but I know that operating an Internet-connected
box as root is stupid, 99.999% of the time it'll be fine, you're right,
but do you want to take that chance? To save typing "sudo" or whatever?
Just moronic.
There are also some programs that outright refuse to run under a root account.
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