I'm unconvinced users – even sophisticated users or professional admins – can really handle ACL granularity that goes much beyond root / not root. Like, SELinux is an unmitigated disaster. Utterly pointless waste of enormous amounts of time. - ThreadSky

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maik.zumstrull.net • 178 days ago

I'm unconvinced users – even sophisticated users or professional admins – can really handle ACL granularity that goes much beyond root / not root.

Like, SELinux is an unmitigated disaster. Utterly pointless waste of enormous amounts of time.

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mattis-kabella.com•178 days ago

no I meant permissions as in this program "can access the camera", "can access the microphone", "can access the file system", like you see on mobile and I believe on MacOS, on Windows most programs are simply gonna ask for administrator and then grant themselves all the permissions they want

maik.zumstrull.net•178 days ago

Oh, yes. Windows suffers enormously from the established culture of deploying an application means double clicking an .exe file and saying yes to admin.

Microsoft will have a hard time fixing this because users don't trust them and are correct not to.

mattis-kabella.com•178 days ago

is it a hot take to say that I was I could just run android on my PC? 😅 ofc only if yk big companies and AAA games were ported over which ofc they're not atm, but I do think in theory it'd be great

maik.zumstrull.net•178 days ago

We'll see which way it breaks. In a business context, I think putting most employees on ChromeOS devices has been possible and desirable for a long time, most corporate IT functions are just too atrophied.

mattis-kabella.com•178 days ago

including reading the file system and stealing passwords, so when it becomes the norm to just give every program administrator without giving it a second thought that becomes dangerous, especially as apparently there are some UAC bypasses out there

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