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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Proton Mail Finally Releases Desktop Apps With a Linux Beta Version (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's what you deploy to your users if you want to work around ad blockers and browser extensions. It's a great tool to get operating system level access to exfiltrate information about your users and identify them uniquely, even if they would prefer that not to happen.

All that with the help of Google's telemetry engine aka Chrome, which further helps Alphabet to manifest their interpretation of web standards in the world.

We worked to move things onto the web. Now people bring the web back to your desktop with every application bringing it's own browser shell. We have come full circle and we're now using 10x the resources.

Electron is the prime example of everything that is wrong in IT.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Wow. That sounds horrible. Do you have a source about the system level access statement? I would like to see people's thoughts on it, if it's as bad as it sounds, I'm surprised I haven't heard about it before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have a source about the system level access statement?

Electron apps are native apps with the Chromium browser embedded in their windows, so they can do anything a native app can. It supports Node.js modules for things like filesystem access, and can interop with C++ code by writing an add on (https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah ok gotcha. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What source do you need? It's almost literally the mission statement of Electron.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've never gone to the webpage of electron