it’s bypassing the normal place to download (in the PKGBUILD) and doing so in a place that’s unsandboxed instead (in the .install file, not the PKGBUILD) when it didn’t need to do that before

that is indeed the official guides’ fault if they’re not in charge of helping maintain the AUR package. not the case for most of the infected packages here other than notably alvr, though.

windows update doesn’t force you to take a look at the changelog. most AUR helpers do so you better bet that it’s important

that’s kinda what the resident in my second quote did

“If you want a special meeting, you go back to the 250 years that the sheriff has been the elected official in the state of North Carolina and you have that meeting with him. This board, we don’t own Flock cameras, I’ve emailed some of you this. We don’t pay for Flock cameras. We don’t operate Flock cameras. We have no interest in Flock camera or Flock camera discussion. That’s your elected sheriff. So if you want to have a meeting with the person that’s involved with that, then you’ll have a meeting with [him], not with us that’s a legislative body. We don’t control the sheriff’s budget. We give him X number of dollars, he does with it what he wishes. I’m not having this discussion. Either you select a person or not.”

One of the residents suggests that the board of commissioners could pass an ordinance about Flock cameras; he is cut off by Garrison, who says again that the residents can pick a person to speak or not. Eventually, the residents do select one representative, who was allowed to speak for seven minutes.

Later in the meeting, another resident explains that their public records requests for details about the Sheriff’s Office contracts and use of Flock have not been sufficiently responded to. She was allowed to speak because she was providing comment about her requests for public records, and not Flock specifically. “I’m here to talk about the lack of government transparency and accountability that I’ve seen come up with the Flock issue, starting with tonight. I think that it’s disgraceful the way you are refusing to let citizens speak to their elected officials,” she said. “We’ve repeatedly asked you to hold a public meeting for us to discuss this, so I’m very disappointed to see a lack of transparency.”

it’s a mailing list, so heads up, if you subscribe you’re also gonna get other discussion like the forums.

https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/aur-general.lists.archlinux.org/

since the 2022 grub incident, Arch has done a great job at notifying the news channel when “manual intervention required” AFAIK, and I don’t remember any instances of Arch maintainers only notifying Reddit (and I don’t think they notified Reddit for the grub incident either lol).

the arch news channel is for breaking changes to arch pacakges (so not the AUR) only. maybe you could subscribe to aur-general@lists.archlinux.org.

(hopefully this doesn’t read as blaming the victims instead of the attackers but) I personally don’t think it’s that complicated to read the updates to AUR packages. It’s not any more hard than only commenting after reading the links that people post here instead of just the headlines—which we all do, right?

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please read the article

part of this is from so many users fallen to ragebait chasing the addiction of revenge by finding constant new ways to degrade the enemy. i try to do my part a bit by posting uplifting news once in a while but it’s so hard not to be surrounded by unnecessary negativity on lemmy. yes things are bad, no that does not give you the right to do the easy thing and make everyone feel really pitchforks about cosmetics over it.

what’s something you can do to feel better? for some people sun exposure can help a little. literally, with or without sunscreen. doing things that happen to give you sun exposure like walking around on the streets can still give you enough of the endorphin boost.

a short-term strategy that can be helpful at the start is journaling the things you feel gratitude about. at your own pace, too. go big or go home is a bit of a lie for building habits

literally any

chrome.

perfect anarchism

i’m curious: what makes it a mastodon clone over a twitter clone?

he’s still got a big heart on the inside

if we’re going by developer politics the only drama-free one is mbin, though there’s a new fork of piefed called pylova because of the recent piefed drama

it was about letting the students collectively set their own punishments and self-govern their behavior to shut down the possibility of authoritarian abuse. anarchists have been exploring this idea for centuries

no it’s the way to put authoritarians out of power

it’s basically anarchism actually