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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Sudo's -i option is able to provide you with a shell in the same state that it'd be if it were a fresh login. I've burned this into my fingers a long time ago. Also, in most configurations you have to specifically whitelist environment variables for them to surivive a "sudo" call.

Is there another way of opening a root shell other than "sudo -i"? That's what I've been using for a decade. How do other people do it?

I've always used sudo -s but no clue why.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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The main problem with SSH keys is that they are good at small scales, but at larger scales the abstractions start to be really leaky. Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task. Not to mention the lack of audit logging in opensshd and the lack of session recording (these requirements suck but acronym compliance means you need them anyways). It's also kind of the wrong tool for the job anyw…

> Distributing SSH keys across hundreds of machines is a nontrivial task. SSH certificates are a thing.

Now you have two problems

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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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.

Not as obvious as you think.

https://github.com/twitter/twemoji/blob/v14.0.1/assets/72x72...

To me at 2–3 mm it looked more like sleep deprived baggy eyelids (or maybe candy corn eyes, but what does that mean?). I read the whole post thinking the program was named after exhaustion, not pleading.

I just polled the room and most guesses were that it’s sadness/sorrow.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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I just always login as root. No sudo or other programs needed, no security vulnerabilities, no complexity. Clearly the most secure solution as it's widely known that using the setuid bit is a security problem.

Maybe not for yourself, but sudo can be a benefit when playing with others: fine grained roles and permissions, audit trail, etc.

Yes, I was joking.

Or "woosh", as I believe the kids say these days.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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What's the problem? It's just that the information is presented as a back and forth conversation between characters.

Do most of the websites you browse look like this?

"Unusual" isn't an insult; what's the actual problem?

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Consider it like dressing up, with nice clothes. Sexual attraction is an important aspect of dressing up to some people, but that's only part of the time, and just generically being dressed up is not a sex thing.

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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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The first time I saw perfectly valid Unicode take down an RSS reader (in ~2003), it was an ü that did it. I have taken to calling that the kaboomlaut in unit tests.

When AOL 4.0 came out they added the ability to embed images in emails, and there was a super fun bug where you could put a certain unicode char into the file name of an image and it would blue screen the recipient if they opened the email. Fun times.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Her articles repeatedly top Hackernews. And her audience largely shares or graciously accepts her predilections. Do you know how many of the most powerful people on the internet are furries/otherkin?

> Do you know how many of the most powerful people on the internet are furries/otherkin? what makes someone powerful on the internet?

I would say someone who administers critical internet infrastructure or who has technical influence over how the network operates.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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If you configure your content blocker to hide the picture element, all the furries go away.

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I assume you've never been to East Asia in general or Japan in particular. Furries are regular business there. Heck, in Korea, at a police station, they characterized the police man/woman as rabbits.

We don't know where the author is from. However, the website loaded pretty fast, didn't have the 4524 trackers, a Signup/Enroll/Whatever Popup, or prioritize 70% of the page for content other than the blog post.

I'll take the furries over the regular shit one's browse everyday.

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