For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!
I feel like, for some weird reason, nobody on lemmy knows how meme templates are supposed to be used.
It’s like watching my parents try to meme and I’m here for it.
People bitching about meme usage. I am home.
Same thing happened on Reddit, honestly.
you mean because of the last two panels which are supposed to be the same? I personally prefer this version, it always bothered me reading the same thing twice which didn’t add much to the meme
The double take is the meme though…
it doesn’t have to conform to the exact format to work
If it doesn’t conform to the format, you should pick a different one that it does conform to and use that instead.
What if they couldn’t come up with a different format (even tho I may know different formats to use here I sometimes simply don’t know their name (to search for their templates) or I’m just lacking the mental capacity to think of a more fitting one :')
ಠ_ಠ
its like retelling a joke you heard but leaving out the punchline
I find the meme quite funny actually. even tho the last panels are typically the same text, they dont have to be. Memes can change after all.
Technically the minion pictures boomers unironically post on Facebook are also memes
This is why I always test suspicious files on my work issued PC.
I see you work for my company…
“Well no problem, they can’t run without root privileges!” -/home left the game
Time to go back to our “roots” then.
Image Transcription: Meme
[Gru, the long-nosed protagonist of the “Despicable Me” franchise, presents to the camera, pointing into the air and smiling. Behind him is a flipchart with text reading:]
And the best part about using Linux: No viruses!
[Still presenting, Gru has his hand in a C shape and his head down as he peers at the gap between his fingers. The text now reads:]
Look at this, a website downloaded a malicious .exe on my machine.
[Gru now has his hands pointing down, fingers splayed, still presenting. The text now reads:]
*Double Click*
See? Nothing happe…
[Gru looks back to the flipchart in a double-take, his eyes round and wide and his mouth downturned. The text still reads:]
*Wine is launching*
[The Wine logo: a slightly tipped wine glass with red wine sloshing inside it.]
I am a human who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on Lemmy. Transcriptions help people who use screen readers or other assistive technology to use the site. For more information, see here.
Good human
Thanks human
Does Lemmy not support alt text? I can’t add alt text from Infinity for Lemmy; is that because Lemmy doesn’t support it or just my client? Because they really should.
It would be great if it had proper alt text. But since an image post can have an additional text body you can put an image description there. I guess it’s a good idea to wrap it in a spoiler/
<details>element.Image description
Gru…
::: spoiler Image description Gru… :::</details>
This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.
Even better: Wine defaults to giving access to your whole drive to new prefixes.
Vulnerable to malwareMalware compatibleAnd anti cheat don’t work… Malware that gets into internals of windows probably fail like anti cheat
It can still corrupt files. I knew that wine was the shut when I had to delete my wineprefix because Eve Online complained about corrupted file. Even better, a virus scanner would run and detect the malware.
unless its just simple ransomware that will nuke your /home (or Z:\home) content if you don’t sandbox it
Windows version of rm -rf /* would work
technically that is only true if the malware in question does something in the kernel or relies on an unimplemented wine api call, since a lot of malware is an infostealer or ransomware, its quite likely that it’ll work just fine under wine
The year of Linux desktop! Complete with the malwares!
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And now some normie is going to think that Wine is actually a virus.
I mean if you consider Windows a virus, by extension…yes? /s 😜
Nah, but proprietary software is often malware.
I thought wine was open source, or am I misunderstanding you ?.
WINE itself is open source, but it’s designed to facilitate the use of proprietary software. (This is because although it can be used to run open-source Windows software, best practice would be to recompile or port that stuff to Linux instead.)
If proprietary software is often malware and WINE is designed to facilitate proprietary software, then WINE is designed to facilitate malware.
(FWIW, I agree with the above statement, but use Wine anyway for a few games.)
It’s certainly better to use WINE to run a few proprietary programs than to run a whole proprietary operating system like Windows :)
I install all wine related stuff inside podman container usin a nice thing called toolbox. That way your system is not polluted with all those libraries and bimboze stuff runs nicely inside a box. Not bulletproof but better than nothing
Could you please provide a link for the toolbox utility? I’m having trouble finding it. Thank you :)
Here’s the git repo https://github.com/containers/toolbox
A similar program named distrobox is also popular, as it has certain features (exports) and more images: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
Oh cool. I wasnt aware of distrobox.
Damn, I wanted them free fortnite bucks.
Best self checkmate I’ve seen tonight
I remember. 22 years ago. https://m.slashdot.org/story/20461
And 14 years ago. https://m.slashdot.org/story/126359
Oh man slashdot takes me back
When I left Reddit I fired up feedley and cleaned up my RSS feeds a bit. slashdot was still there. Still putting out content worth reading.
I am reminded of a painful memory while playing with a CTF challenge. It was past 2am I executed a .exe with wine of what was supposed to be a malware in that scenario. Sure enough I launched it with Wine (yes, it was a very bad idea)
There was no window after the couple errors displayed on the console. I gave it a couple of minutes to start and then moved on to fine other clues in the challenge because obviously Wine cannot run it, right? Wine is surely not advanced enough yet! The thing was encrypting all my drives!!
I killed it after it ran a good 5 minutes and only realised the damage an hour later. I had to put an all nighter to do a crash course on PowerShell to code a decrypter after decompiling the malware to find the encryption key.
Lessons learned: use containers/VMs for that stuff. And yeah, Wine does work fine, too fine.
