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    [–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Based on the responses in this thread, I feel like you could present this screenshot with a "I bet you couldn't find your way out of this!" and a zip of the directory, and a significant number of users would voluntarily download it and extract it just to "prove that they could".

    [–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 60 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Genuinely my first response. What are VMs for?

    [–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I run QubesOS BTW. My entire computer is just a bunch of VMs in a trench coat.

    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Running Qubes as a daily driver is some serious level of privacy enthusiasm

    [–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I do it mainly cos it makes managing lots of different environments easy. I can have windows and different Linux distros and different packages and cool shit all from one display manager.

    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Doesn't virtualization eat away a lot of performance? Or do you not care much about it?

    [–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    1-2% is the overhead of virtualization. Hardware virtualization is Goated. And QubesOS uses Zen under the hood same as what's used by aws etc so its well optimised.

    [–] drq@mastodon.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    @Allero Not if it's hardware-accelerated. You'll be hard-pressed to find a CPU without hardware virtualization, though.

    @muntedcrocodile

    [–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    And for GPU? For all I understand, everything but dom0 should still require GPU Passthrough to have any decent GPU performance. Does passthrough perform well? Also, am I right in understanding that if you have 2 GPUs or APU/GPU mix, you can only have GPU passed through to one VM, leaving other VMs on the mercy of the same device that renders dom0?

    [–] tyler@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway. ls -al and compare the sizes.

    [–] BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this

    [–] Denvil@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they're just bluffing, might as well try

    [–] assa123@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    What if it encrypts the disk when entering the dir and the only way to decrypt it is by winning? Decryption keys will be provided via API at the end.

    [–] assa123@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

    oh, and the endpoint key is on ram, to be lost forever after shutdown.

    [–] tyler@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

    I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you cd is a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.