Discord uses ptrace wildly

>Discord is attempting to use ptrace on everything, from syncthing to pulseaudio.

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>using dismeme outside of browser
Your lose.

lmao

if you have to use it for whatever reason, never do it outside of the browser sandbox.

>running nonfree software
>running discord outside a sandbox
>not having ptrace_scope set to prevent that
It's probably just trying to figure what games you're playing and their state, though.

Not him but I didn't know there was a way to protect yourself against the botnet. I don't know what ptrace is but cheers for the tip m8s.

>ptrace
rundown in laymans terms? i already knew discord was shady, so it's not a surprise i guess

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It's pretty much what said. It's just trying to figure out what you're doing and if you're running games or listening to music on one of their known programs -- if so, then it shows you as "Playing Game X" or "Listening to Music App Y".

Of course, you have to realize that since Discord is free to use with no ads, it's more likely recording *everything* you have open and then selling/using that data.

What's wrong with nonfree software. In other words, how is free software superior? You can easily make riot spam ptrace.

>nano
>using discord
be lost, normie

>use ptrace on everything, from syncthing to pulseaudio.
what does this mean in no nerd language?

>Of course, you have to realize that since Discord is free to use with no ads, it's more likely recording *everything* you have open and then selling/using that data.
To play devil's advocate, I'd say that's unlikely. Since GDPR is a thing in EU and the data dump you get if you request the data they have about you doesn't include such stuff, it's highly unlikely they'd do something illegal like that, since it could be proven that they do it (debuggers, JS deobfuscators, wasm disassemblers) and they'd get fucked over with fines and lawsuits.

You can also easily make a fork of it that doesn't, though. Also, having third-party developers means that it's harder to hide unwanted features like that.

>harder
>unwanted
Having a notification of who is playing what is part of the discord experience and a basic functionality thereof. It would go against the philosophy, so such a PR would not be accepted. Forks = maintenance, I never use forks of anything. I don't trust third parties.

people are saying their ceo has a history of ignoring the law and selling user data, with lawsuits included. in his previous company i mean
if thats true or not i dont know

Use Matrix to talk to your friends, Wire/Signal to talk to your parents and Tox to talk to crazy people on the Internet.

>Nonfree


But you can use discord for free you mongoloid

>I never use forks of anything
enjoy your outdated and malicious software

it really is summer

Then it could be easily shown that looking at game state is all it does and there's no undesirable data mining going on.

I have some first party experience with that CEO and data leaks (although not selling user data). These leaks were rather bad, but likely unintentional and happened because of poor design and programs. If they have also been selling user data, it was before GDPR and there were no such strict restrictions on that back then.

This except self-host a Matrix bridge for everything you're forced to use

Forks are the definition of outdated and malicious. Are you some sort of sucker who runs firefox ESR or some of its abandoned forks? How about pale meme? Pfft.
>game state
No, pgrep and ptrace work better across different games.

Nice straw man faggot. Firefox ESR isn't even a fork anyways; it's an LTS release maintained by Mozilla that gets backports of security patches from later versions of Firefox.

>No, pgrep and ptrace work better across different games.
I meant that it could be shown that the ptrace is only used to examine game state and not, say, spy on your social media accounts or whatever other nefarious features it could be doing. That way, both they and the community could just show that it's not spyware.

gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Matrix isn't quite ready for primetime. Client wise it's like 90% there - Riot has come a long way on web/electron (see Riot.im) and Android (see RiotX beta)., but there are still a few issues to fix. It's the Synapse homeserver and lack of federated identity servers that hold it back server side. Once Dendrite v1.0 is running on matrix.org in production it'll be ready.

>backports
Of course it does. After 2 months.
Why? Linux developers decided ptrace should be a legitimate syscall that doesn't breach your privacy. Otherwise they wouldn't have put it in. Are you more competent than linux developers?

>play online game
>discord ptraces it
>banned

>Linux developers decided ptrace should be a legitimate syscall that doesn't breach your privacy
Ah, so that's why kernel.yama.ptrace_scope exists to limit what it can do, right?
Please stop trolling. It's not very entertaining.

>After 2 months.
Firefox ESR updates the same day as stable you dumb nigger.

Stallman was right.

If you're worried about it, configure your kernel to have a meaningless ptrace

The absolute state of Jow Forums. Die.

>grrr logic and reason. die.

The absolute state of dilating trannies. Get euthanized.

discord is obviously whitelisted on anticheats negro

Not an argument fucko

I'm not spoonfeeding shitstains like you. Go get herded by the CIA.

>herded by the CIA.
I have nothing to hide. You're bing a paranoid schizo.

>nothing to hide
>schizo
AAAHAHHAHAHA. I'm glad you don't use free software.

>normie
i bet you use emacs

Free software is a fucking meme, none of it is formally verified or even fucking audited. Go ahead tell me firefox is perfectly safe.

>an app that was copypasted from the 150 similar ones already on the market somehow managed to go from 0 to monopoly in two years
>"wow guys wtf how come this was a CIA botnet all along?"

Are you autists aware that this "feature" is configurable? You can disable game detection in settings.

Can someone tell a linux newfag what I need to do to recreate the left terminal window?

>normie
you need to go back

>What's wrong with nonfree software
i can't compile it

Why do discord trannies always have to move the goalposts this hard? Mozilla dilated a little bit too much, that's why Firefox is shit now. If you want formally verified software, install sEL4.

Why would you compile it? A lot of it is already compiled with PGO, LTO, and well chosen compile flags. NEETs just try compiling everything in gentoo with -Ofast and whine on forums.

>sjws use sjw infested software as examples of why open source is bad

Top kek

that's not exactly the point. i compile myself so i know they don't put shady shit in it.

Did you capture any spooky traffic? What does it send home?

It's a paid ADF/JIDF shill. You can easily recognize him by posting style.

What about your compiler? You make that yourself too? Or did you instantly audit the current state of the entire codebase before compiling?
Firefox is fine, you're a mentally and socially crippled retard who can't take current-day socially acceptable behaviour such as progressivism and tolerance. Go live in a hole retard.

You do not independently audit every single line of code you compile you absolute tosser

Reddit or Hackernews might be more to your liking, tranny. This is not your safespace.

>buttmad nodejs "developer" detected

>not running shitcord in a dedicated VM
wow, where's your opsec, faggot?

I was here before you and I'm here to stay. Back to your containment "board". Kiss some qanon boots.
Cope

I guarantee you were not, and you will not stay for long since you'll join the 40% soon.

functionality wise free software is not superior to nonfree software. it's just superior as in you can take a look at it what it does without having to reverse engineer the shit

Cope and seethe. Yees keep getting angry, keep getting stressed out, blow those arteries.

>doesn't know what ptrace is
>posts on the technology board
holy fuck zoomers are retarded. go back to playing with your tablet, you inept faggot

Go stick a black dildo up your ax wound.

>implying EU bureaucrats have enough skill to figure out what shady shit discord is doing
GDPR is there to bully small businesses into submission. the EU has neither the manpower nor the skill to enforce it against bigger companies who have dedicated specialists working at masking that shit

It's called a vagina, incel. Guarantee the first and last vagina you'll see will be your stepmoms when she gets old and you need to wash her.

about what? his sympathies for pedophiles?

According to a reddit post with the same name
reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_uses_ptrace_wildly/ewk1asn/
Discord uses ptrace to detect the programs you're using so it can update your discord profile with the game you're playing OR to activate streamer mode when obs is running.

I'm not at all experienced with this, especially because I'm a Winfag, but how bad could this end up?

dilate.

ok virgin lmao

>socially acceptable
only in libtard bubbles. everywhere else we'd love to murder all you faggots

You would but you won't. Current American domestic policy (and the constitution) guarantee the right to belong to and fight for LGBTQ+

>tranny has an incest fetish
wow, what a surprise

well duh
discord shows what videogames/music youre playing to other people
do you even discord

Cope, seethe, and have sex. Also projection.

>what is bootstrapping
no but openbsd guys seem paranoid about security desu.

this can change in an instant. your death is just 3 missed meals away, subhuman

Yeah right openbsd so secure up until you install a couple of apps like chromium, steam, etc

It's not. However you should watch out to not be put under suicide watch and kill yourself, I hear that's really popular with anti-establishment people.

Does your soi infested brain not allow you to say anything but buzzwords? Having fun?

it's okay to be white

white is a term, not a race, lots of context behind it, make sure to get it right next time (please).
I am, I love making people seethe and cope. It gets their hearts beating.

>"""disable"""

>By using ptrace (the name is an abbreviation of "process trace") one process can control another, enabling the controller to inspect and manipulate the internal state of its target.

>By attaching to another process using the ptrace call, a tool has extensive control over the operation of its target. This includes manipulation of its file descriptors, memory, and registers. It can single-step through the target's code, can observe and intercept system calls and their results, and can manipulate the target's signal handlers and both receive and send signals on its behalf. The ability to write into the target's memory allows not only its data store to be changed, but also the application's own code segment, allowing the controller to install breakpoints and patch the running code of the target.

Not to say they're doing all those things, but to have proprietary blackbox code running ptrace on all processes reeks.

>white is a term, not a race
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Of course white is a race.

Meh, blame linus for making ptrace.

Don't feed xir's onions fuled PC crusade. Just report and move on.

meant for

Yeah, who needs debuggers...

Science (btw I love science, you should too) states race is not discrete, but a spectrum. And it's even more so with psychology, meaning I can _be_ somewhat caucasian yet act like and dress like an african american.
I expect the best kernel developers on the planet to just write good code.

>Science (btw I love science, you should too)

To be quite frank, one does need to have a rather significant amount of intellect to comprehend Richard & Mortimer. Why, just yesterday I attempted to show my cousin (who has just entered his seventh year) the episode where the titular character, Rick, turns himself into a pickled cucumber. He laughed at the mere thought of a man become fermented vegetable, but I sat there watching, lamenting the deeper message: the death of intellectual pursuit, the desensitization to societal filth, muck, and mire, and the shameless abandonment of psychological understanding.

At the end my cousin turned to me and proclaimed, "I am the scientist that was once named Rick, but I have now become a pickled cucumber. Look at me, I am pickled Rick!", and I could not help but smile, not that the line he had just recited was humorous, but at the realization that this, in front of my very eyes, was the sum of what the episode had just warned against.

I cannot blame my cousin just as much as a man cannot blame a dog for consuming its own bile. It merely does not know any better, and what could be said about a man who judges things he does not have merit to judge?

Haha autism (just a joke I respect mental illnesses _jazzhands_)

>states race is not discrete, but a spectrum
ok well even if that's true, to be on the spectrum (which you clearly are) there actually has to be a white race.

fucking dilate

matrix is shit all these shitty chat services are shit. Steam isnt that bad but the interface is absolutely assholes on linux

It's just listing what processes are running, the equivalent of 'ps aux'. Attaching to a non-child process is forbidden anyway on modern linux configurations.

Just install discord via flatpak if you have to use it

One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applications from one another.

Limited syscalls. For instance, apps can’t use nonstandard network socket types or ptrace other processes.
No access to any host files except the runtime, the app and ~/.var/app/$APPID. Only the last of these is writable.
No access to the network.
No access to any device nodes (apart from /dev/null, etc).
No access to processes outside the sandbox.

Stop saying white race, that's not how this works. G*sh can't you get it, you can be anywhere from an undispositioned person of color to a narcissisistic trump supporter.

WHO MUMBLE HERE ?

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Interesting. Does windows have a counterpart to ptrace? I don't use discord regardless but I find it hard to believe that they would spend the effort to track just Linux users this way.

dickchord on windows knows what games you're playing, so probably.