For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!
This is why I always test suspicious files on my work issued PC.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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Then you're not going to be happy with me deploying work production code via my dedicated porn box...
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[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the "Despicable Me" franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]
And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!
[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]
Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.
[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]
*Double Click*
See? Nothing happe...
[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]
*Wine is launching*
[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]
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Oh gods I'm tired. I read:
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And saw the line break and thought "Wow. That was a good transcription." I think I need to go back to bed.
Good human
Does Lemmy not support alt text? I can't add alt text from Infinity for Lemmy; is that because Lemmy doesn't support it or just my client? Because they really should.
As far as I'm aware, Lemmy unfortunately does not provide the option to add alt text to images. Hopefully that will change, though!
Really? So when I write , the alt text does nothing?
I didn't know you could do that!
From what I can see, this means you can add alt text to images you embed using markdown. However, directly uploaded images in posts don't seem to have a way to directly add alt text that I can find. You can add a transcription in the text body, but it's not quite as accessible as pure alt text because screen readers won't read it automatically when the image gets focused.
Possibly you could embed an image in the text body and upload that like a text post, and that way use the markdown to add the alt text, but that would require the image is already hosted somewhere in the internet.
Thanks human
I feel like, for some weird reason, nobody on lemmy knows how meme templates are supposed to be used.
It's like watching my parents try to meme and I'm here for it.
People bitching about meme usage. I am home.
you mean because of the last two panels which are supposed to be the same? I personally prefer this version, it always bothered me reading the same thing twice which didn't add much to the meme
The double take is the meme thoughβ¦
it doesnβt have to conform to the exact format to work
Same thing happened on Reddit, honestly.
I just got a real bad malware on my windows PC and I'm legit considering using Linux as a response. What's the best into to someone who isn't a programmer but understands computers relatively well enough?
~~Vulnerable to malware~~ Malware compatible
βWell no problem, they canβt run without root privileges!β -/home left the game
This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.
How did you figure out it was running? How did you confirm? Teach me your methods
Please
It was pretty easy to spot in htop since it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word "Monero" multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway haha
I sometimes leave my laptop on, but the monitor turned off when I go to sleep. Sometimes when I wake up, the fans on the laptop will be running full speed, which dies down soon after I turn the monitor on and use the laptop for a little while. Do you think this might be a symptom of some covertware running on my laptop?
Perhaps.
There may be easier ways to test for this, but what comes to mind is if you install your current OS again on another partition and then leave it as you usually do, and see if the fans do the same thing. If they do, it might just be a fault with the fan control or sleep state or something.
If it doesn't happen, I'd assume something fishy is going on. Maybe try and set up a script to log your CPU usage and what's using the most every few minutes. That might catch something?
I've just now had another thought. If it's trying to be covert, maybe just leave your task manager / htop open and don't touch anything for a while, it might think you're afk and start running again. If it doesn't, it could be checking to see if common monitoring tools are running and stopping itself to avoid detection, if that's the case you'll have to be a bit smarter about trying to catch it.
tl;dr Maybe. Run a virus scan if you can, or try and find it yourself if you think you can. If all else fails, nuke the OS and start again.
I haven't run a Linux machine in years. Has wine improved or was I just not savvy enough to get things to run on it?
If you run games with Steam on Linux, it will probably use Proton, which uses Wine. It allows thousands of games to be click & play now on Linux now. See: https://www.protondb.com/
You really don't think Linux has viruses? I'm confused by this post. Is it an excuse to shit on wine and windows?
They're super rare. I've not gotten one once in decades, whereas I've encountered countless viruses on Windows. Linux is more secure, but also it's just a smaller target. Best way to avoid viruses is to use an OS nobody else wants to use *taps head