Honestly if you’re at the point of suspecting that your Linux system is infected, just back everything up, wipe, and reinstall. Make sure to use a known good computer to make the install disk, and completely wipe the drive before install and not use existing partitions.

People have mentioned Wireshark which you can use to monitor for suspicious network activity, but IMO for most people this isn’t super helpful because it’s hard to tell what’s suspicious and what’s normal from Wireshark alone without quite a bit of networking/software knowledge. Maybe there’s more user friendly packet capture software though, something that can string the packets together into their respective connections and summarise key information like the protocol and domain involved.

QDirStat can visualize the contents of your drive as an interactive map. Might be helpful for finding files that aren’t supposed to be there.

ClamAV is an open source antivirus available for Linux but I don’t know how well it does at actually detecting Linux malware. Seems to be more for people running file/email servers to scan incoming file uploads.

Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.

“I see the problem!”

Seriously, everyone NEEDS to get a fire extinguisher for the kitchen. And keep it up to date. We’ve collectively forgotten just how deadly fires are, if someone in the middle ages found out we had the technology to almost instantly put out a decently sized fire and most people just, like, don’t bother to have it in their homes, they’d lose their minds.

Gonna link to this thread the next time someone gives me shit for adding a /s to what they thought was “obvious” sarcasm.

Bro literally had a conversation with the soldier in the tank.

Fucking cowards using flying drones. Kill me with a full humanoid and then I’ll be impressed.

That’s fair. That’s honestly the optimal use case. But with how fast technology tends to advance I suspect this will get marketed as “everyone should get one and you’re basically Amish if you don’t” before you know it (even if China’s socialist government has regulations on how companies can market stuff, we Westerners don’t and it’s a matter of time until some Western techbro company contracts this into the next gadget people will judge you for not having.)

People already judge me for being in the tech industry and refusing to use whatever latest app/service that’s going viral because I know how easily untrusted software can fuck you over.

Look, I get that this is impressive and all, but as a developer, keep that shit out of my brain.

And this is not a “hurr durr China dictatorship hurr durr SeeSeePee thought control” thing, it’s an “I have no reason to think they don’t have good intentions but software, no matter how genuinely well intentioned, will NEVER be trustworthy enough for me to connect my brain to” thing. We DO NOT understand the brain nearly enough to even begin to theorise what could go wrong or what kinds of exploits could be done on it. Maybe it’s because it’s a paradigm shift that I’m not prepared for, but this sounds like absolute security hell and can only go disastrously wrong. And you can’t wipe and reinstall your brain when it does, nor does evolution tend to patch CVEs in a timely manner.

Remember that there are ingestible chemicals, a comparatively extremely crude and imprecise way of controlling the brain, that can completely destroy your mental defenses and make you do whatever the attacker wants. Imagine a direct neuron level interface with a computer that can scale infinitely beyond the processing power of the brain. Fuck that shit.

China and Russia haven’t been “communist” since… Well, forever

Technically correct because they are and were socialist respectively. “Communism” as a system is the endgame of socialism, characterised by dissolution of the State, and unfortunately has not yet been realised. Kind of like truely pure functional programming on our current stateful computer architectures.

So it’s particularly ironic when Israeli “communes” exist under the protection and apartheid enforcement of the checks notes STATE of Israel.

Allies: Israel

In other news, a galaxy far far away has formed a new, better rebel group. Allies: The Empire.

Also “anti-some other group” is not an ideology. Stop calling that by itself an ideology. “I don’t like this group and don’t support them.” Cool, but what do you support then? What makes you different? Ideologies are positive assertions about what you actually believe in and what you would actually do. Negative assertions like “anti-whatever group” tell us nothing about who or what you actually are. Imagine if Marxists’ arguments started and ended with “capitalism bad” with no proposal or discussion on alternative systems and why they would work better.

There’s a strong cultural aversion in China to drugs in general (in large part due to the trauma of the Opium Wars) that need to be overcome for cannabis to be accepted, and there are signs that some progress is being made albiet very very slowly. But like you said it’s indeed a contradiction that alcohol and tobacco is much more normalized. I think a lot of the heavy handed drug enforcement in China is conflated to be due to socialism, but IMO it’s more due to culture and the socialist government, as any government should, conforms to the will of the majority on this issue. So the majority opinion/culture needs to shift first, kind of like the path toward legalization in Canada was in response to a similar cultural shift in its population. Am Chinese but don’t live in China so this is second hand information though.

That makes sense. But still, tons of countries criminalize hemp as a material even with negligible THC levels. Which is bullshit even if you think recreational cannabis is bad.

Damn that’s some high praise.

Also, which is it libs? Did the USSR have a war on drugs a million times worse than the US where even touching a weed leaf got you the death penalty or was cannabis so normalized the government literally gave awards to producers? I’ve mostly heard the former in countries like Canada along the lines of “we never would have legalised weed if we were socialist! You’d be dead or in a gulag right now, stoner commie!”

Don’t want carbonated alcoholic drinks spraying on the books and dissolving the ink I guess? IDK that’s the only vaguely logical explanation I could come up with.

Yes, because the white investor of all people is the one we should be feeling bad for. Sure.

Y’all get paid enough to survive?

e.g. blind

Why? Is looking at the damn thing before you pay money on manufacturing that hard?

This baffles me about vibe coders too. You’re already saving a lot of time just look at the damn code and see if there’s any glaring mistakes.

Why are we treating AI assistance like it’s all or nothing? Why can’t we just have it help a little and still use our own skills?

Gonna guess they chose him knowing he’s the liberal’s darling and would trigger you.

That would be too good a death for any US president ever.

Also how do you make a pile of liquid?