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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m with you, OP. I’ll never blindly do that.

    Also, to add to the reasons that’s bad:

    • you can put restrictions on a single executable. setuid, SELinux, apparmor, etc.
    • a simple compromise of a Web app altering a hosted text file can fuck you
    • it sets the tone for users making them think executing arbitrary shell commands is safe

    I recoil every time I see this. Most of the time I’ll inspect the shell script but often if they’re doing this, the scripts are convoluted as fuck to support a ton of different *nix systems. So it ends up burning a ton of time when I could’ve just downloaded and verified the executable and have been done with it already.






  • I know it’s dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shutdown, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

    Sadly, something we all have to get used to. Everything we do is ephemeral and the next guy will likely have better/different ideas on how to do things.

    Basically everything I’ve ever built has been torn down or somehow bastardized eventually.