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Harmful Softwares 2022

  Software considered harmful In the sidebar on the left, you can find why i consider some points of the software bad. I don’t think minimalistic software is all the times better than bloated software. Sometimes “bloated” software is better than the alternatives. For example pale moon is more usable than surf. And sometimes extensions are useful so i don’t consider them harmful, problem is that how you write those extensions (if you read GNU source code, you’ll have a impulse to throw yourself into an active volcano). While, for example, BSD implemented those extensions in a sane way. Here’s a table with software i consider harmful and their alternaties Harmful things Less bad things KDE, Gnome i3, dwm, bspwm, Xfce Windows BSD, Linux, Haiku Vim, Vi Emacs, zile, jed YAML JSON, CVS, MacBooks Thinkpads, Toughbooks GCC clang, tcc Wayland X11 GTK, QT Tk, Curses Intel, Realtek ath9k Electron Throwing yourself to an active volcano, y...

Analyzing the Mario Themed Malware

If you were a child with a Nintendo DS like myself, growing up you will undoubtedly have played (for countless hours) video games from the Mario series. Appearing for the first time in “Donkey Kong” , Mario is the undisputed protagonist of the video game brand of the Nintendo development house ― from sports to cars, most of the famous video games produced by Nintendo have Mario as the main character. One of the most recent video games in the series is “Mario Kart 8 Deluxe” , a souped-up version of Mario Kart for the Nintendo Switch platform. In this game, players challenge themselves to race on different courses with cars of all types and, as you would expect, whoever finishes first wins. The simplicity of the game’s mechanics and the modern animations make Mario Kart arguably one of the most successful video games developed by Nintendo. It’s so successful that the video game’s reputation continues to drive modest sales for Nintendo, despite the fact that fo...