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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by goodpoint »

adenozine wrote: post #73
bee_rider wrote: post #43

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…

Rust? Well, speaking of egotistical open source people that refuse to change...

You are being downvoted by the RIIR crowd for bruising their egos.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #176
doodlesdev wrote: post #169

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Not pretending anything, I don't actually see the problem. They're clearly fictional talking heads that exist purely as a narrative device; why should I care if one of them is a girl with cat ears and another one is a fox/wolf(?)?

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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by jszymborski »

ahartmetz wrote: post #164
NotYourLawyer wrote: post #114

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Can we please not turn this into a fury flame thread.

I don't think HN should take a perfectly interesting technical article and make it about the author's online identity.

Frankly a lot of this thread is really disappointing to read.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by bitwize »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #152
xena wrote: post #143

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Good news! I'm going to be adding another furry character to the website thanks to this comment. Feel proud, you've had a positive impact on the wallet of a furry artist.

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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?

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by epakai »

xena wrote: post #133
brundolf wrote: post #121

Some people probably hate it, but I really enjoy the conversational format of these posts. Very novel and interesting way to bounce around a topic

Thanks! That's exactly the point of it! I'm going to be working on the CSS this weekend on stream (the images being so big for longer conversations take up too much screen real estate), but in general the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters; not to mention it helps move out parentheticals to break up giant walls of text. I…

The dialog could probably use some left/right padding or an alternate font to indicate it's not part of the main text. Initially I found it a bit unclear, and also hard to skim the article.

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Post by NotYourLawyer »

lonjil wrote: post #175
doodlesdev wrote: post #167

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Normally this is just tangentially related and not for Hacker News but I feel this time it needs a bit of attention. My brain melted in the first minutes trying to read this article. I honestly just couldn't. It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities, makes me lose sanity. Has anyone actually managed to read this? How is this on the front page? (Not…

It's actually rather simple. You read one bit of text, and then you read the next. It's a dialogue, if you've ever read a book the format should be familiar.

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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by doodlesdev »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #176
doodlesdev wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Not pretending anything, I don't actually see the problem. They're clearly fictional talking heads that exist purely as a narrative device; why should I care if one of them is a girl with cat ears and another one is a fox/wolf(?)?

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Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by pxc »

xena wrote: post #133
brundolf wrote: post #121

Some people probably hate it, but I really enjoy the conversational format of these posts. Very novel and interesting way to bounce around a topic

Thanks! That's exactly the point of it! I'm going to be working on the CSS this weekend on stream (the images being so big for longer conversations take up too much screen real estate), but in general the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters; not to mention it helps move out parentheticals to break up giant walls of text. I…

> the idea is to have a combination of the Socratic method of dialogue based teaching combined with a few consistently written characters

This is, of course, how the original Socratic dialogues are written, too! There are characters with distinctive personalities and points of view who (re)appear in multiple dialogues.

Maybe a lot of STEM folks here have never read Plato or other/later philosophical dialogues, or they never got a sense for how they can be useful. Maybe how it's interleaved with the main body of text is confusing for people as well?

Either way, I think the main idea of the format is good. Maybe some small formatting tweaks or a link at the top like 'how to read this document' would help get new readers to grok the format.

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by jszymborski »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #152
xena wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good news! I'm going to be adding another furry character to the website thanks to this comment. Feel proud, you've had a positive impact on the wallet of a furry artist.

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If you don't like it, don't read it. Also consider not commenting. It's pretty well laid out in the HN guidelines.

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

Re: 🥺: the best sudo replacement

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Post by lonjil »

hallway_monitor wrote: post #152
xena wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good news! I'm going to be adding another furry character to the website thanks to this comment. Feel proud, you've had a positive impact on the wallet of a furry artist.

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> But also nobody will read your articles if the site looks like this.

But wait, Xe's articles frequently make it to the HN frontpage. Surely someone must be reading them?

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