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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

great I had heard about superproductivity from techlore but I brushed it off

could you please tell what seperates it from planify though?

oh yes I was commenting to some other post , not sure how It commented it here. My bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

anlinux feels like junest but configured it with gui and vnc , I might use it someday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

t I started using QGIS professionally when the small city that hired me to, among a lot of other duties, be the new GIS department.

Turns out they thought ArcGIS cost the same as like Office or Acrobat, and they didn’t budget for it for the fiscal year that started 2 weeks before I started working.

Anyway, I’ve gotten pretty good with

great I had heard about superproductivity from techlore but I brushed it off

could you please tell what seperates it from planify though?

QGIS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

okay so what alternative do you suggest which could be better used in exe formats I feel that unzipping from exe isn't the best solution to this problem

(like some exe contain some zip file inside them and extract them)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean , I use linux but I can use wine to run the content inside , so in some sense "every content" is cross platform. I think it ultimately adds to better performance specifically for executable torrents in the long run over things like zip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

yes I think it does indeed have better ratio than 7z with better speed , I think without the need of extraction.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Traditional file compression doesn't work that well as compared to upx. Upx supports as much as 500 mb/s on any reasonable device (this is very comparable to https://github.com/mhx/dwarfs) , which is honestly insane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What advantage does it have over existing methods? It’s great that it’s cross-platform, but so are zip files. And the content inside isn’t cross-platform, so I don’t think that ultimately adds anything.

https://github.com/upx/upx/issues/437

It states that the more people use and report upx as non antivirus to windows , the better detection rate occurs. This software is open source y'all. Not sure why you all have got your pitchforks

heres https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e61c808be19688dacff19d9439563410067e6eb72a9cc8afdb2644a785d056b1 , upx virustotal link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I had actually agreed with you , here was my initial comment , though I just wanted to look into upx github page more

okay now I understand what you mean.
Basically the same threat model follows if you want to unpack a upx
and it also states
- We will *NOT* add any sort of protection and/or encryption.
    This only gives people a false feeling of security because
    all "protectors" can be broken by definition.

What would you recommend instead ? .
But also if you are extracting that file , you are basically running it , but the main issue is that antivirus can't read it

new response:


But on  https://upx.github.io/ , its given as

>secure: as UPX is documented Open Source since many years any relevant Security/Antivirus software is able to peek inside UPX compressed apps to verify them

I am really sorry mate but please read about upx once because I don't know why but you just seem so defensive to this change.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

. Malware is enough of a problem that there’s no way I’d want to start downloading crap that’s been UPXed since that’s going to make it impossible to determine if it’s legitimate or not by (most) endpoint tools, or they’ll just see UPX and go ‘bad shit!’ on everything.

You had clearly misunderstood what this tool is. Its tool for better compression of executables which could be used in data sensitive (Like , most people would agree with me that some times decrypting on our own local device could be better since it could be more predictable than waiting for seeders , because there are very less seeders)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

well then you could still extract it using upx , (basically if I remember correctly , you use upx on one exe file to generate another (I think this is the intended use case of what I am suggesting) & then use antivirus on that. according to their website you can list, test and unpack your executables. Also, a checksum of both the compressed and uncompressed file is maintained internally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Okay I have edited it to give more of my side. And not sure why you linked Anti Commercial AI license , I am not a bot .

 

UPX is open source and works on linux , windows and mac (ie. cross platform) I would like to know why the torrenting space isn't using it already / having a mature discussion about it.

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