we’re fans of internet horror memes and being loud in libraries. so we love scp and hate ssh

People wouldn’t just go on the Internet and lie… would they?

You mean we shouldn’t have a ‘while true; eval $file’ job running as root??? Goddammit, someone help me fix my remote admin script!!!

I’ve figured out how to control computers remotely and I’ll share the script:

Client:

#!/bin/bash
PASSWORD="your_password_here"
sshpass -p "$PASSWORD" scp /dev/stdin user@server:/path/to/cmd.txt <<< "$1"

Server:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
    while IFS= read -r line; do
        eval "$line"
    done < "cmd.txt"
    > "cmd.txt"
done

Just chmod 777 both files and run as root, ez.

According to a survey of the Linux community, the best distro is always not the one that you picked.

That’s the power of intentional misinformation

This brand of argument is basically ‘If you can’t do everything perfectly, then it is pointless to do anything especially the thing that you’re suggesting.’

You see this person in every thread on every topic where people discuss things that they can contribute their expertise to. Their message is ‘it is hopeless, your plan won’t work, give up what you’re doing, you don’t stand a chance’.

Honestly, and forgive the langue, but fuck those people. You know what your strengths are and what you’re capable of, not some faceless bot pushing violent political rhetoric who is, by its own admissions, not in the US.

If you don’t want to participate in the tech landscape as it exists today, there is absolutely nothing wrong about avoiding it entirely and building something else. Companies will not be so complacent about their position in the market if they know there’s a completely Free alternative that does everything that they charge a subscription for.

The people who are doing self-hosting today are exactly like the early adopters of the smartphone or any other technology. There’s always people trying new things and sometimes they succeed.

People who are using privacy focused approaches to personal technology, like self-hosting, are beta testing the ability to use cheap, mass produced hardware and open source software to build a product ecosystem that meets their needs. That progress is enjoyed by anybody in the future who decides they also want to leave the walled gardens of Tech Giantopia.

Edit: this is satire, I clearly interact with these people far too often to have done this good of a job.

Imagine if The Onion had to say this.

Your target audience understood, the people downvoting probably are Ubuntu users anway.

Void Linux+Gnu

Uhh, it’s GNU SLASH Linux actually

The Gentoo wiki is pretty good too

Actual reenactment:

All you need to know is that, whatever you pick, you made the wrong choice and you will be roasted if you ever attempt to explain your decision.

Unless you use Arch, then you have chosen correctly.

His wife must really like dad jokes…

He just has a wide stance.

It’s annoying, but it isn’t feeding my data into the AIs.

Helldivers 2’s new beta client is 24GB (current client: 150+GB).

So, I’ve at least had a chance to download more hard drive space

So fake.

That version of Luxo lamp wasn’t invented until 1937

smh my head

Have you tried turning the rape island off and on again?

I just sat down for a nice crackers and milk salad