=== ANCHOR POEM ===
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│ CW: tech-paranoia │
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every time I update my system, it breaks.
kinda makes me think they do that on purpose so that you spend all your time
up to date and that way they can quickly patch in and out security flaws fast
enough that nobody notices.
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===
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│ CW: paranoia-keyloggers-steam-always-on-internet-connections-updates-streaming-arbitrary-data-with-complex-and-unknowable-ordered-structuring-mentioned │
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every time I update my system I can't help but think "okay THIS is the time
they sneak a keylogger or screen recorder or whatever in" and like... there's
no way I'd ever know, I just want Steam to work again, it was working
yesterday, NOTHING CHANGED, STEAM, SO WHY do I gotta risk a keylogger by
updating my system for the first time in 3+ months
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--- #2 messages/770 ---
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There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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--- #3 fediverse/2873 ---
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@user-883 @user-192
I don't update my kernel more than like, once every few months, so maybe that
would be something to look into! how scriptable is it?
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--- #4 fediverse/3123 ---
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using linux requires constant maintenance and that's kind of unfair, actually.
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--- #5 fediverse/1762 ---
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This was the first bash script I ever wrote.
It's been updated a little, it was a bash alias first, but this is what it
looks like now.
Kinda shows what kinds of problems I needed to solve most.
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--- #6 fediverse/1890 ---
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I always get a little suspicious when my machine pseudo-randomly starts
running the fans super loud and when I open my resource monitor they suddenly
drop to silent
like... bro what are you hiding
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--- #7 fediverse/4967 ---
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um I mean:
There are some pieces of software where you think "oh cool, what did they
update?" and then there are some like "oh god... What did they update?"
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--- #8 fediverse/4900 ---
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if you wanna trick systems administrators just put a bunch of sleeps in your
code so your computer programs don't use up all the mainframe's resources all
at once
[statements dreamed up by the practically deranged]
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--- #9 fediverse/1616 ---
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they say learning Linux is hard, but it's the only free operating system so
really it's a question of learning Linux now, when you have time, or later,
when you're busy.
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--- #10 fediverse/2120 ---
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sometimes I think performing my art was just an excuse to use Linux. At least,
some of my art.
But hey, I'm not complaining, it's awesome.
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--- #11 fediverse/3890 ---
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Linux is great! It can do anything you want it to.
Except that thing you want it to do. Why don't you go fix it? It's not hard,
all you have to do is run these configure files or operate this doohickey and
BAM suddenly you got apes writing machine gun regulation software
[I don't think those two things are related]
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@user-1286
I totally agree! Every time I install new software I write an "update" and
"run" script so that I can easily use software that I haven't touched in a
while.
once I started doing that the usability of my system went way up. Unless they
change the installation requirements, grrrrrrr
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every time a software project changes it's installation method I have to
update my install and update scripts which I wrote explicitly so I don't have
to go to their website and tell the world that I'm thinking about using this
particular piece of software
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ah nuts, they replaced my LLM setup with one that outputs gibberish. I swear
it was working just a moment ago, and I didn't change it's configuration at
all, and it's local only... right? so uh that's weird, surely it's not because
they altered some value somewhere that I have no access to
eh, maybe the newest technologies are overrated. At least, the software ones.
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why would I want other people using my computer? They don't know how to use my
computer! They might break something or mess something up or automatically
read/edit my files that are stored in standard locations through the usage of
a script which automagically scans and ransomwares machines on the internet
who store their files in specific standardized locations! no thank you.
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@user-882
it's a security hole though
yeah... there ya go...
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neat
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--- #18 messages/712 ---
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Linux doesn't teach you to to build a perfect system. It's always breaking,
after all.
It teaches you to rehearse.
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I love it when wine doesn't work because it "failed to open program.exe"
... okay, can you tell me why it failed?
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listen if your man page is more than like, 10 pg-down's, then you might want
to consider breaking that utility up into smaller pieces.
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