Had to use the reddit app the other day… That people can stand to be on there still is beyond me. I like it here on the fediverse and im not going back
You’d like to think that, but I’ve heard multiple people say “better wrong than liberal” without any sarcasm over recent years. This is absolutely a belief of some.
Yeah pretty much, you need to do some heavy blocking for All to be usable, I wish there was an All (filtered) mode, like Subscribed but in reverse. With Subscribed you see nothing except what you want to see, with All (filtered) you would see everything except what you don’t.
most windows programs haven’t run as root in over a decade.
a program only runs as “root” in one of three situations:
The app manifest says it is a requirement.
The executable does not have an app manifest and has the “Run as Administrator” compatibility flag (only applies to apps built for XP or older).
The user manually invokes the program with super user permissions (right click and “Run as Administrator", or manually set the above compatibility flag).
There are still far too many system components which run with spooky elevated privileges. Don’t believe me? Try nuking permissions on Windows update or activation nagware, disconnect from the internet and see how long those changes persist. Sometimes it is a few reboots.
This is a fundamentally insecure security framework, which no amount of glue or sandboxing can fix.
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