Hello everyone, and sorry for my bad english. So lets start with a usual topic about Open Source, and that is “everybody can see the code of a OpenSource programm to see if it is malware”. And my question is: how people that cannot read a single line of a programming language manage to do that? I mean, they can just trust in everybody that say which software is secure or not. If the software is a virus or malware, or poses security risks, people won’t know that unless they’re programmers, and so the same thing happens to these kinds of people as used to happen with proprietary software: they have to rely on those who “know” to find out if something. I find this quite problematic because, as I said, anyone who doesn’t understand the code wouldn’t be able to verify whether such a program is secure or not, and would have to place their trust in third parties. That aside, it’s also worth noting that most software has hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code, which would make it take longer to parse all that code—and even more tedious than reading a typical “EULA.” Can you think of any way to fix this?
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
20 daysi answer this in the same post, lol
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
20 dayshaha interesting point of view, i like it!
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
20 daysSorry but i dont understand what do you mean with “non-zero”
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
21 daysyeah i use floss software for that too! but maybe somethere is a malicious code hidden by a very good programmer (or a group of these) in critical software…
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
21 daysI don’t begrudge peoples difficulties with English
it has nice things and bad things (is horrible constructed and very incontinuos in its pronunciation), like almost every natural language.
we dont need following individual users. It is a discuss community, not mastodon or pixelfed
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
22 daysSadly, in the horrible english language
well, seems like Gram just take it down. F
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not enough. we need ZERO a.i trash. Why need to waste developing energy in develop a.i shit? no need. i repeat: we need ZERO A.I trash in a text editor
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.mlEnglish
28 daysi think ignorance is reject learn things that you dont knew stupidity is do things thinking that you knew it, but not. (sorry my bad english)
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit per user for this community?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.mlEnglish
28 daysi dont understand the question
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it possible for someone in America to not know who Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi is?bymaxihuenu@lemmy.ml
29 daysYeah, people often dont know things.
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Linkstack Setup with Docker Compose: A Step-by-Step Tutorialbymaxihuenu@lemmy.mlEnglish
30 daysFrom my perspective, this kind of apps are so useless. I mean, why no host a very simple website conformed with one page with all the links instead of this kind of programs?


brother just lick other evil company toes