• @moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
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      43 months ago

      One of the downsides to hardcoding snap to only be able to use a single repo/store is probably added difficulty in creating testing infra for testing if uploads/CI/CD work.

      lol, one of the first one’s I click on: https://snapcraft.io/test-snapd-public (by Canonical)

      A basic buildable snap that is expected to be published in public mode

      Maybe if they didn’t insist on holding a monopoly over the store, they would be able to have an internal version of the store for testing, rather than cluttering the public one.

    • LeoOPMA
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      13 months ago

      Oof. Never thought to test that. That’s awful 😬

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    33 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    As detailed by one user wondering what happened on the Snapcraft forums, the wallet immediately transferred his entire balance to an unknown address after a 12-word recovery phrase was entered (which Exodus tells you on support pages never to do).

    Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and CEO of Canonical, responded to a related thread on whether crypto apps should be banned entirely.

    Making apps safer for people vulnerable to social engineering is “a very hard problem but one I think we can and should engage in,” Shuttleworth wrote.

    At the Snapcraft forums, Holly Hall, product lead for Ubuntu’s backing services company Canonical, wrote last week about a new policy of manual review for all new Snap registrations.

    As noted by The Register, a different sandboxed app platform (store), Flathub, recently made related changes to its validation process.

    Open software repositories have long faced issues with malicious look-alike uploads, including the PyPI index for Python programming.


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  • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    33 months ago

    wasnt that the damn stated point of making it proprietary in the first place?

    i dunno guys, feeling like their excuse was bullshit 🤔

  • @MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.com
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    Snap is stupid, slow and lame. I stopped using Ubuntu just because I hate snaps. I just want to install my programs the normal way and avoid issues.

    • LeoOPMA
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      33 months ago

      “stupid” and “lame” are a matter of taste, but “slow” is testable, and they’re quite fast these days. They have their uses, especially on embedded devices and servers, but I get your point. Flatpak is my go-to.