MeerK40t
by MeerK40t
Laser Cutter Software
Dangerous permissions
Verified creator
MIT
v0.9.9000
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About
MeerK40t is a free and open-source laser cutter control application for designing, preparing, and sending jobs to a variety of supported laser devices.
Permissions
3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- all devices (/dev): webcams, disks, raw hardware
--device=all - X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
--socket=x11 - full access to your home folder
--filesystem=home - network
--share=network - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - sets environment variable MEERK40T_DISABLE_UPDATER
--env=MEERK40T_DISABLE_UPDATER=1
Who publishes this
The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.
- the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
python3-deps:build-options:--share=network - fetches from the network during the build (nothing to audit beforehand): pip3 install --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} --no-cache-dir \ setuptools wheel sip typing_extensions \ Pillow numpy requests \ (x3)
python3-deps:build-commands - the build has network access: it can download things the manifest does not list
python3-wxpython:build-options:--share=network - fetches from the network during the build (nothing to audit beforehand): pip3 install --verbose --prefix=${FLATPAK_DEST} --no-deps --no-build-isolation wxpython-4.2.4.tar.gz
python3-wxpython:build-commands - hosted by github.com/meerk40t, which owns the io.github namespace of io.github.meerk40t.meerk40t
publisher:namespace
Maintenance
Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.
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