WindPower

Software security engineer.
Main account: @EtiennePerot

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The solution involves gVisor, an open-source reimplementation of Linux as a userspace Go application.
It works well enough to run modern browsers and play YouTube at 1080p 60fps without a sweat, and less memory overhead than a full VM.
More to come soon.
@dystopiabreaker @zooko

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I will be open-sourcing a project that should massively help with Linux desktop security in the coming weeks.

No, it is not just an AppArmor clone.
Not a KVM frontend either.
But a third, more complex third thing.

Presenting to Qubes devs next week!

[⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker]

the recent signal debate points out something important: desktop OS security is far behind mobile.

there have been incremental developments to improve this situation: QubesOS, OpenBSD's unveil/pledge syscalls, and macOS's incremental development towards something like unveil/pledge

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A sneak peek at what I've been working on to help with this very problem.
https://t.co/McWS1pHWQG

[zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ @zooko]

People have the entirely reasonable expectation that desktop operating systems like Windows, MacOS, and Linux should prevent one app from stealing another app’s data. But they don’t. If you want that kind of security, you need to use a mobile phone OS or Chromebook.

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@Flattr just went all 502 Bad Gateway.

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@ChrisLAS You just got mentioned on KDE.news: http://t.co/r2rM4O7b

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@xlearn DamnVid allows resizing too, you can set that in the encoding profile settings

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@OfficialTFWiki @Epic_Eric_BR There is a fix for this (you can see it on the Portal Wiki), but it requires the server-side Vector extension.

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@glorund DamnVid is cross-platform. http://code.google.com/p/damnvid/

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DamnVid got Lifehacker'd, thankfully it's not hosted on my own shared hosting account... The download count is now over nine thousand!

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@digitalreb Thanks for the spread-the-word'ing :D

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@Jarno Thanks for the DamnVid mention :) Sadly it does not handle DVDs though.

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DamnVid out of beta, version 1.0 released! http://ping.fm/idMaH It's a v1 for once.

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DamnVid 0.3 released, this time with Windows and Ubuntu/other Linux distros support! http://ping.fm/e4yE7

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An idea that could make a cool web service: Synchronous video (online or local) watching between computers (friends) with real-time comments