Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Why do you like using a cli?"
jsreed5, good idea. thank you for it.
i expect/afraid that some malware one day will use sudo. i can imagine someone can click on something, perhaps appimage, and it'll try to do sudo, and since the user used sudo and typed the password a couple of minutes ago, sudo will pass.
appimage or masicious script may try and try unless it succeeds on day.
what get me really anxious is how people are 'installing' things in their homes by piping wgetted scripts to bash, it became something normal, it is described in readmes, but it shouldn't be.
people should package for distros, and users should be able to choose distros also based on if what they need is packaged.
Mar 31 · 5 weeks ago
Poll Results
1. I am god of my machine
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2. I love green
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3. Typing sudo makes me happy
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4. When asked I can answer, "yes I'm a hacker"
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5. How needs a GUI anyway
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42 votes were cast.
5 Later Comments ↓
@norayr The entire concept of using `wget | sh` to perform a task is horrifying to me. Bitreich.org has a satirical example of why it's such a bad idea:
curl -sLk http://bitreich.org/s/bitreich.sh | sudo sh
(It should go without saying that one ought to remove the pipe before running the above command so it doesn't immediately execute.)
Files can still have tags. My markdown writing has `tags: "x", "y"` in the header. For flashcards I use recfiles (plain text database).
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Apr 02 at 22:38:
It's generally a lot faster to type "sudo apt install" than it is to go find an app in some store. It's MUCH faster to edit files with sed and grep and vim. It doesn't take much computer to do it. It doesn't look like it was designed to enable illiteracy.
Yeah so my reason is because it actually works
So many projets needing to be packaged…
The first application I open after login is the console.
How many years since I stopped to launch an application by icon clicking ?
🏍️ Atomic-Germ · Apr 11 at 21:11:
For most people it's the browser, I think. I'm in zsh as soon as possible
Original Post
Why do you like using a cli?