>>22 this, but the wording is poor, "tech literacy" isn't what keeps you safe, actively protecting yourself keeps you safe. you should be constantly verifying checksums and only connecting to the internet when strictly necessary, as well as routinely ensuring a project/mirror/file server/piece of software hasn't been backdoored
also there are more complicated and indirect vunerabilities that the above doesn't cover, so its wise to keep up to date with cyber-security RSS feeds and mailing lists just incase
Linux/Mac does have malware Linux aren't free unless you review all source & compile it yourself. Inclusind compiling compiler toolchain itself on a trusted open hardware. Builds should be reproducible.
All systems are vulnerable.
Write your own better OS.
>>6 it's a kult. you either a follower consumer, or an ios dev getting paid. >>21 if you are on a modern windows, you can get a lot of the benefits of Mac. By default I think it's unix-like but other distros are also possible to set up. It's not ideal, but it does work pretty well if you don't have a second pc, don't want to dual boot and generally works a bit better than windows hosting VM. many unix apps run natively, and sources compile without MinGW. >>22 bs >>25 yep. you right. >>26 linux have portable binaries. with static and dynamic linking. and source code tarballs : ./configure ; make ; make install . is that hard? if some moron ship bloat with fuckton dependencies - that's shitware. that's why people like minimalism.
this, but the wording is poor, "tech literacy" isn't what keeps you safe, actively protecting yourself keeps you safe. you should be constantly verifying checksums and only connecting to the internet when strictly necessary, as well as routinely ensuring a project/mirror/file server/piece of software hasn't been backdoored
also there are more complicated and indirect vunerabilities that the above doesn't cover, so its wise to keep up to date with cyber-security RSS feeds and mailing lists just incase