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  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldSnap bad
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    4 days ago

    Because the separate installation means you can actually end up with both an apt installed and a snap installed.

    My comment about docker was a specific example of such a case, where vulnerabilities were introduced. It was actually a commonly used attack a few years ago to burn up other CPU and GPU to generate crypto.

    Yes, canonical provides both. Guess what? They screwed up, and introduced several vulnerabilities, and you ended up with both a snap and apt installed docker.

    The fact that they are both packaged by Canonical is both irrelevant and a perfect example of the problem.


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    One selects a different package, same source repo.

    The other completely changes the installation, invisibly to the user, potentially introducing vulnerabilities.

    Such as what they did with Docker, which I found less than hilarious when I had to clean up after someone entirely because of this idiocy.

    The differences seem quite clear.





  • Ehhh no, that’s not true.

    You can say no, but if they pull in some other reason (such as dogs) to give them a meaningful excuse, they now have probable cause for the search.

    Anything is now 100% admissible, you can sue but its not going anywhere, and they can still get away with planting evidence because they came up with whatever probable cause necessary to perform the search anyway.

    Edited to add: BTW, if your car gets all scrsthed up from the dogs, that’s just too bad.

    Get a dash cam, front and rear ideally, which also grabs the interior. You do not need to notify police that they are on camera, while in uniform they are public personnel and are not subject to any expectation of privacy while carrying out their “duty”. But it may be good to mention you have a camera in there, and no, you will not turn it off.






  • We don’t have a national ID, which is part of the issue. As a result, regular identification is by state depts (motor vehicles).

    It also means for passports, you need to either fill out the form and mail it in, or visit a State Dept office for some expedited options (requires specific reasons to do so, requires an appointment).

    In recent years, the Postmaster General has royally screwed the post office (that’s a whole separate thing, so I won’t go into that here. Short answer, Trump). So it runs pretty inefficiently, and that’s the main way that people are getting passports.

    So… Several reasons why.