Charadon

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Charadon , (edited )

In theory, you could make a fake executable with the mkv file extension on a unix system, by making it a shell script with a bunch of garbage data at the end, marking it executable, and distributing it with a tarball. But the chances someone will do that is insanely low.

Also it has caveats:

  1. It'd rely on your double clicking it, and having your file manager not warning you about it.
  2. Video players wouldn't run the shell script code, if it'd run the file at all.
Charadon ,

I've done it before. It's not particularly difficult, just very time consuming. And at the end, you're left with a distribution that's not really that useful without repackaging everything you did into a package manager so you can do updates without borking it.

Great as a learning tool to see how the whole GNU/Linux stack works, but not something you'd use practically.

Charadon ,

Gnome breaking shit for no reason as always =P

Seriously, this is as simple as keeping symbolic links for compatibility, but they won't do it because it maybe might possibly lead to issues.

Charadon ,

Eh, you can host a gitea instance on a $3.50 VPS pretty easily. I don't think money will be an issue when it comes to hosting and serving.

Charadon ,

I've tried it before, the speeds are abysmal to the point of being unusable. It took me 3 days to download something that was only 50mb when I last tried it.

Charadon ,

It's not tor, it's supposed to be it's own anonymizing network since tor doesn't support UDP or something.

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