Also, when on the highway, remember: A safe following distance is 69 bible-lengths per 72,411 bible-lengths-per-hour of speed.

Bonus layer to this: It’s the Christian rock of joke comments. I just took regular old advice, crossed out words, and replaced them with bible.

“Our spyware is not able to accommodate your platform.”

The horror stories I’ve read about what you give the software access to do (assuming there’s truth to them; I’ve never run it myself).

Edit: I’m realizing now your screenshot is probably for a web course.

Let the hate of the crowd wash over me, but I don’t even like Flatpak, and I’ve got love-hate (mostly hate) relationship with AppImage as well.

Just give me a system package or a zipped tarball.

In recent years, have had to just get used to needing to build most projects from source.

1. That’s been the way to acquire software since shortly after the dawn of time. You already know what you’re getting yourself into.
2. There are SHA256 checksums of each binary file available in each release on Github. You can confirm the binary was not tampered with by comparing a locally computed checksum to the value in the release’s checksums file.
3. Binaries can also be signed (not that signing keys have never leaked, but it’s still one step in the chain of trust)
4. The install script is not hosted on Github. A misconfigured / compromised server can allow a bad actor to tamper with the install script that gets piped directly into your shell. The domain could also lapse and be re-registered by a bad actor to point to a malicious script. Really, there’s lots of things that can go wrong with that.

The point is that it is bad practice to just pipe a script to be directly executed in your shell. Developers should not normalize that bad practice

I mean, how about:

1. Download the release for your arch from the releases page.
2. Extract to ~/.local/bin
3. Run

And this is why every time a developer asks me for shell access to any of the deployment servers, I flat out deny the request.

Good on you for learning from your mistakes, but a perfect example for why I only let sysadmins into the systems.

I’m not even a vegan (nor fully vegetarian), but this is just so far off the mark. There’s many sources of protein besides meat, and even more if you’re an lacto-ovo vegetarian.

I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

Did that months ago; defederated completely when they turned into Lemmygrad-lite. At first I missed some more active FOSS communities, but since then, others on different instances have become more active. programming.dev has a lot of communities that overlap with some of the bigger FOSS ones on .ml so maybe check out what they’ve got.

If there’s a community that only exists there, be the change you want to see: create it somewhere else, nurture it, and give it time to grow. You’re not the only one making this complaint about .ml, and you probably won’t be the last.

Related: I genuinely feel that ml being the official or at least de-facto flagship instance is turning people away.

Edit: Oh yeah. Didn’t recognize your username at first, but I was looking at the modlog the other day from my LW account, and saw a bunch of individual community bans from Dessalines and wondered what was up. Figured it was something exactly like this, and it was. Thanks for sharing.

I love when cheaters fail to prosper.

Back when I still used Reddit, so many posts were just CS students trying to get other Redditors to do their homework for them. I don’t think I ever came across any technical interview cheaters, but I’m sure there were some.