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Re:Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:49AM (#47148196)
Paypal Honey, anyone?
Snap publisher here, we're now holding a call for testing for potential regressions of this change. Please try it out on any Vulkan-enabled systems and report problems on the issue tracker.
Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux on Sunday May 04, 2025 @03:32PM (#43888909)
The sudo binaries in the snaps are likely to have their SUID bit stripped, so they won't cause any trouble even if they have known vulnerabilities.
Re:Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space on Linux on Sunday May 04, 2025 @03:30PM (#43888897)
This statement is false as snaps also have shared runtimes known as "content snaps".

A common example is the ones with the gnome- prefix and the ones that end with -themes suffix.