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Maybe it's time to actually review the apps. (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 7 months ago

How does the snap store have worse moderation than flathub when the snap store has the weight of a company behind it and flathub is run by [nervously notices it doesn't say]?

[-] where_am_i@sh.itjust.works 17 points 7 months ago

canonical has a history of massacring their distro in the worst way imaginable. They're specially gifted in this way.

[-] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

"I don't know, I can imagine quite a lot."

[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 7 months ago

AUR my beloved

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

I love the AUR as much as the next guy, but audited, it ain't.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 17 points 7 months ago

Mixed bag

[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Agreed. There has been cases of malware sneaking its way into the AUR.

Now it could be avoided by checking PKGBUILDs and I can trust that the reader is checking those (are you, reader? 🤨). But do you have that trust for every user?

I prefer Void Linux's way of handling packages, where it all goes through one ultimately trusted git repo that gets packaged up if the license allows it, otherwise using xbps-src. If it was a bit less DIY compared to Arch I'd be hopping onto it tbh.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

the AUR and wiki are the only reasons i use arch

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

See Fedora has COPR which is like AUR if it were a version specific dead mall which 50% of the time makes you compile from source anyway lol

[-] Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 7 months ago

I'm lost, does Ubuntu give you a pop up with this or something?

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 69 points 7 months ago

I believe these are there fake scam apps that got published on snap recently. This was the second time it happened.

[-] nailoC5@lemy.lol 58 points 7 months ago

Third time it happened. And this time the scammer have republished the apps like.. 6 times

[-] owen@lemmy.ca 52 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bruh. Isn't stopping this type of activity the whole point of cannonicle controlling the store?

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Canonical cycle:

Canonical solves a problem nobody was experiencing or needed a resolution for

Canonical pushes problem resolution as a major component of Ubuntu

"Resolution" impacts Ubuntu use negatively

Users get the pitchforks

Canonical kind of mitigates the issue somewhat but not completely

Canonical goes back to thinking about problems nobody is having

Repeat ad nauseam

[-] owen@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Interesting... I never got into Ubuntu because of the look but everything I read about it sounds like a headache. I've totally seen the exact cycle you described multiple times.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I actually am okay with the appearance, but there is just way too much emphasis on doing things that the user base doesn't care about, instead of actually fixing bugs with the product and solidifying it. Which, okay, I guess some folks are fine with that, but being the most popular distro, why try to drive so much innovation at the expense of stability?

I just revisited it a short while ago on hardware that had actual 16.04 compatibility confirmed by vendor back in the day and it was a battery hog and a call tracing dumpster fire on 23.10. Then I switch to Debian 12 and not a single problem. I don't get it.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 6 points 7 months ago

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worse misspelling of Canonical yet. Congratulations, that’s an achievement.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Exactly the same scam apps too

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Some guy lost a good chunk of his crypto bullshit because there was a scam wallet on the Snap Store. I believe Popey did an audit of it and called it to the attention of the admins who removed it. It came back.

[-] cooopsspace@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

Also where the fuck is Bisq? The only one that should be on the list.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Too bad they don't have an (official) flatpak.

[-] azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I don’t feel sorry for them, that’s well deserved

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

they let the fucking apps back on a day later 😭😭

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