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  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
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    MtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlYour Linux PC is NOT private out of the box
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    2 months ago

    I got reports on this. I’m personally not of a mind to remove it, but it does feel irrelevant to open source. It’s more a Linux sysadmin type thing.

    I will say, cut down the spam. Any repeated similar musings within a week would be low value and I’d probably remove.

    I personally don’t agree with your points and this wouldn’t be relevant to most peoples risk profile.

    Worth reflecting on what others have said here. I think you’re worrying too much about something that will never be expolitable in standard usage and this is from someone who worries a lot about privacy.

    Maybe if this is really important to you check out Tails OS which as far as I’m aware focusses on running in RAM and leaving minimal persistent state.







  • Most times overhead is less important than readability and maintainability of code. If someone cannot read your code, they’ll mess it up far worse.

    Optimisation is for bottlenecks. No point making code run in 0.01ms rather than 0.02 if it later hits at 0.7s bottleneck like file io or DB. For most things, readability is everything unless you’re developing operating systems or close to metal libraries. Many compilers will inline functions anyway so the only gain is increased suffering of colleagues and later bugs in production when it’s modified by someone else. Cognitive load is very important and why many static code analysis tools pick it up.