Users are blameless, I find the fault with the developers.
Asking users to pipe curl to bash because it's easier for the developer is just the developer being lazy, IMO.
Developers wouldn't get a free pass for taking lazy, insecure shortcuts in programming, I don't know why they should get a free pass on this.
The post is specifically about how you can serve a totally different script than the one you inspect. If you use curl to fetch the script via terminal, the webserver can send a different script to a browser based on the UserAgent.
And whether or not you think someone would be mad to do it, it's still a widespread practice. The article mentions that piping curl straight to bash is already standard procedure for Proxmox helper scripts. But don't take anyone's word for it, check it out:
https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/
It's also the recommended method for PiHole:
Putting fiber in the ground is expensive. I work for an ISP, and we estimate fiber overbuild costs at $15/ft. So a mile of underground fiber costs about $79,200.
"You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"
Fucking same.
I deleted my main account once they first came out with the reddit recap, and deleted my replacement when they fucked RIF, never to return.
I still lurk without an account sometimes, but that's all they'll ever get out of me.
Looks pretty neat.
Is there a way to have it run like a ram statistics monitor? I'd love to have this running in a terminal window to monitor my ram statistics.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/brave-browser-caught-redirecting-users-through-affiliate-links
I'm not going to defend Mozilla by any means, but if you care about privacy, you wouldn't use a browser based on Chrome anyway.
You could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.
As someone with two kids who play games on the switch, physical carts keep me from having to buy every game two or three times.
So losing the ability to buy a game and share it between three switches will severely increase the costs of games for me.
If you want to fully wipe the disks of any data to start with, you can use a tool like dd to zero the disks. First you need to figure out what your dive is enumerated as, then you wipe it like so:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
From there, you need to decide if you're going to use them individually or as a pool.
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I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said?
I'm saying that just adding Mozilla's PPA to your sources won't change apt's behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.
As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I'm well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.
Even though it's an underhanded move by Cannonical, I'm still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.
There's a difference between 'language' and 'intelligence' which is why so many people think that LLMs are intelligent despite not being so.
The thing is, you can't train an LLM on math textbooks and expect it to understand math, because it isn't reading or comprehending anything. AI doesn't know that 2+2=4 because it's doing math in the background, it understands that when presented with the string
2+2=, statistically, the next character should be4. It can construct a paragraph similar to a math textbook around that equation that can do a decent job of explaining the concept, but only through a statistical analysis of sentence structure and vocabulary choice.It's why LLMs are so downright awful at legal work.
If 'AI' was actually intelligent, you should be able to feed it a few series of textbooks and all the case law since the US was founded, and it should be able to talk about legal precedent. But LLMs constantly hallucinate when trying to cite cases, because the LLM doesn't actually understand the information it's trained on. It just builds a statistical database of what legal writing looks like, and tries to mimic it. Same for code.
People think they're 'intelligent' because they seem like they're talking to us, and we've equated 'ability to talk' with 'ability to understand'. And until now, that's been a safe thing to assume.