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  • While lots of this is problem of desktops in general, but:

    • Linux applications can access your entire home folder, which likely contains most of your data. It can also access e.g. state of other applications, which can be bad.
    • While flatpak somewhat mitigates the issues, it is half-baked: permissions are granted directly when you install the app, and user has to manually revoke the permission - Needing e.g. FlatSeal for this is insane as well. With Android/iOS, the user only grants permission when needed, which reduces lots of attack surfaces.
      • Doesn’t too many apps want your home folder access by default? If you think about it, it is a huge security issue - you basically have to trust the app to keep your secrets intact.
      • Mic access can be very problematic, esp when it would be enabled by default if app requests it. Although I don’t know to which extent this would be abused.





  • I am sure there was a typo, it’s Gödel’s incompleteness theorem which proves that consistent systems are incomplete.

    Consistency means likely what you expect: it’s that you cannot reach contradiction from very axioms.

    The result is insane in my opinion, it means any sensible math system with basic arithmetic has a proposition that you cannot prove. AND you cannot also prove that the system is contradiction-free.

    It is completionist’s worst nightmare.