Yucky 🤮

Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory

This is news to me. I’ll look into them saying that and change how I talk about this event. Because before knowing this I would’ve described it similarly as the other person. But yeah, any grace I was willing to extend goes away if they’re parroting white replacement.

I asked it this out of curiosity since something like a strict filter (not AI) on the n-word wouldn’t be surprising. Nope, it answered correctly. Which tbh is the right thing to do, it’s a legitimate question. I don’t think things like encyclopedias should censor that.

System Deez nutz

I don’t get the systemd hate. The most common complaint I see is that it’s too bloated, but Arch uses it, so what gives? Is it just that people dislike change? Like Wayland hate (not Wayland frustration)?

Presumably running upgrade with the update flag is smart enough to do it in the proper order because there would be no point in doing it in the opposite order. Many other package managers just work like this out of the box. Homebrew is such an example. Running upgrade automatically does “update” first.

Presumably running upgrade with the update flag does it all in one go.

I think people get too defensive about security by obscurity not being security. It’s still better for things to be obscure, it’s just not sufficient. A hidden lock to open a door is marginally better than a lock on the door. A hidden button to open a door isn’t secure though, of course.

But at the same time, I fully understand why it’s stressed so much. People tend to make analogies in their mind to the physical world. The digital world is so different though. An example I use often is you can’t jiggle every doorknob in the world to see if it’s unlocked, but it’s (relatively) easy to check every IPv4 address for an open port to some database with default credentials.

Yeah, I was doing sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Expanded it’s more clear what’s going on.

bomb() {
    bomb | bomb &
}
bomb

How do you know what I do?

That’d just the difference between them, I don’t think it’s something to worry about in your personal machine. Maybe if you’re writing a script that thousands of people will use or something.

The apt(8) commandline is designed as an end-user tool and it may change behavior between versions. While it tries not to break backward compatibility this is not guaranteed either if a change seems beneficial for interactive use.

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/apt/apt.8.en.html

It has a stable API but realistically I can’t see them changing apt so much it matters.

apt-get has a stable API is my understanding.

sudo yay

Are you serious? That’s a thing? I’ve been doing apt update and apt upgrade for years

Yeah it’s crazy to me that people default to it. For scripts, sure, but apt is so much prettier.

Yeah, I miss Windows Explorer. Which I find really shocking. But I think it’s just missing the accumulated years of muscle memory.