This is somewhat terrifying. My fear is that a prankster will make the pasted command be `rm -rf / \n'
Pastejacking
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Re: Pastejacking
#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
That argument would lead you to the conclusion that if your peers are objectively better than you, then it's immoral for you to seek employment; you must improve yourself or choose a different industry. So do you think you are among the world's best in your area of expertise, or are you voluntarily unemployed? ;)
Fortunately, hypocrisy is not a fallacy.
> hypocrisy is not a fallacy
... but a warning sign that an argument is probably too broad, too absolute, too confidently stated, and has ten thousand exceptions that you didn't consider.
Re: Pastejacking
#243This is why I always copy a command into TextEdit (or Notepad on Windows) first, and then re-copy the clean text before pasting into my terminal. While we are on the topic of copying and pasting. If the command downloads a script, make sure you download the script out-of-step via curl first, review its contents, and only then execute it. This avoids sites maliciously changing the script based on the User Agent.
I've started putting the preview step right inline with the curl bash instructions. curl -sL http://example.com/install.sh | less -eK && \ curl -sL http://example.com/install.sh | bash
That still relies on the second `curl` fetching the same instructions as the first (an invariant that a really nasty web server wouldn't have to obey). Wouldn't it be better to use a `tee` to make sure that what you read with `less` is exactly what's executed?
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which is a show about how cool it is to be an asshole and ruin your own and other people's lives by making extremely selfish decisions. This is also why I won't watch House of Cards.
So, do you only watch shows about Gandhi, MLK and J. Christ? Not sure about Mad Men, but HoC doesn't "glorify" its subject. And tons of great art is about "assholes". The thing is, and this is a very christian message, assholes are people too.
HoC makes it seem down right cool to screw everyone you know over to attemt to dig yourself out of the massive hole you've dug yourself in to. The sad thing is that much of the American public watching this garbage believes the underlying premise, "do unto others before they do unto you."
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, because rapists are given cover and can more easily rationalize their behavior when society implies that rape is a natural or expected consequence of the failure to take precautions against it.
Rape is a natural or expected consequence of the failure to take precautions against it. It doesn't matter what society implies. Note that I can say that while unequivocally condemning rape and providing zero cover to rapists. I am describing what is, not what I think ought to be.
>> Rape is a natural or expected consequence of the failure to take precautions against it.
I don't understand - how is that not victim blaming, and going against your last line? And how exactly do you take precautions against rape, especially when you factor in the fact that the perpetrators are far more likely to be people who wield some kind of authority over the victim, including family members, bosses at work, police and security forces, etc. which is true at least where I come from (West Africa), and leads to chronic under reporting / decisions by families to either blame the victim or sweep the whole thing under the rug. Or am I somehow misunderstanding your meaning?
Re: Pastejacking
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've started putting the preview step right inline with the curl bash instructions. curl -sL http://example.com/install.sh | less -eK && \ curl -sL http://example.com/install.sh | bash
That still relies on the second `curl` fetching the same instructions as the first (an invariant that a really nasty web server wouldn't have to obey). Wouldn't it be better to use a `tee` to make sure that what you read with `less` is exactly what's executed?
(For what it's worth, it turns out that this sort of nefarious invariant disrespect was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11532599 .)