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For some more serious alternatives, I have heard of many people finding doas to be a drop in replacement. Furthermore, I've heard some people suggest neither doas nor sudo, but instead using an SSH server to gain root access to your local machine. It could listen on localhost and use key-based auth to allow root logins...
The actual title is supposed to be "🥺: the best sudo replacement", but I'm not surprised that Hacker News stripped the emoji.
: the best sudo replacement
> I wonder how many people's RSS/JSONFeed readers we broke with the title... Well played.
The ironic part is that I didn't break any RSS readers! I broke URL parsers in chat apps, scp, and for command line arguments to `tailscale serve`.
1. Although, if I remember correctly, URLs are not supposed to have characters outside of ASCII 33–126 in them (and some of those within the range are also disallowed), although as the link to my poem shows, those restrictions aren’t always enforced.
This doesn't carry the risk of tainting the new session with the context of the initiating shell (pwd, env, ...) and doesn't only feel like a full login, but actually provides everything that's part of a login session (systemd and DBus user-sessions, shared session context with other shells of the same user, etc).
For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please" Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way edit. source: dude just trust me
For anyone wondering, this is basically a young millennial / gen z meme. The emoji is usually pronounced "pwease", as in a childlike pronunciation of "please" Therefore the command is basically just asking very nicely, hoping to get one's way edit. source: dude just trust me
The meaning can also be inferred from… the face.
Until I read that comment I was having real trouble figuring out WTF it had to do with running commands. I thought it might be some practical joke tool that automatically modifies your commands such that they'll make you sad when they run.
I mean clearly this is all quite tongue in cheek but: > It's also debatable if the entire concept of privilege separation as implemented in Linux and UNIX was a bad idea to begin with but we're stuck with it because of an endless ball of legacy programs controlled by egotistical open source people that refuse to change […] Not a very charitable way to describe volunteers who don’t want to learn the flavor-of-the-mont…
The quoted paragraph has nothing to do with language choice.
> God I wish they did. They wrote the program in C, (as far as I can tell) have no intention of rewriting it in Rust, and it's had many viable attacks over the years that allowed attackers to gain root privileges and worse. It's also debatable if the entire concept of privilege separation as implemented in Linux and UNIX was a bad idea to begin with but we're stuck with it because of an endless ball of legacy programs controlled by egotistical open source people that refuse to change because then obscure targets that nobody uses won't be able to leech off of the rest of the ecosystem by holding back any chance to let us have a modicum of nice things.
So, I guess fair enough. I will expand it slightly to say: it is an uncharitable way of describing volunteers who don’t feel like learning a new language and reimplementing their old projects while also overturning a huge ecosystem of software.
Wait, HN renders emojis?
I mean clearly this is all quite tongue in cheek but: > It's also debatable if the entire concept of privilege separation as implemented in Linux and UNIX was a bad idea to begin with but we're stuck with it because of an endless ball of legacy programs controlled by egotistical open source people that refuse to change […] Not a very charitable way to describe volunteers who don’t want to learn the flavor-of-the-mont…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alternatively, a good chunk of my twitter feed would call this the bottom emoji, without attempting to give it a pronunciation. I don't think any particular pronunciation has consensus, but various groups of people imbue it different meanings.
You're not wrong, at least based on the demographics I've seen. But I bet if you said "pwease emoji" or "bottom emoji", much of the same group would probably get it. Though maybe "pwease" would this and the fingers.