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Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by overfeed »

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #291
Piraty wrote: post #237

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solved long ago. https://github.com/jirutka/doas-sudo-shim/

so do I uninstall sudo from my distro? What do I do on upgrade? This shim is available from alpine package manager, can I get it anywhere else?

It's single, self-contained shell script. If it's not packaged for one's distro, amd they don't know how to replace a command and keep it updated, then this shim is not for them, and that is ok.

For the technically inclined who like challenges, creating a distro package of this shim is the "hello world" equivalent for packaging.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by bsnnkv »

AlexeyBelov wrote: post #325
bsnnkv wrote: post #294

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And this is why all new projects by independent developers should seriously consider using a post-open source license before defaulting to corporate-friendly/corporate-first OSI licenses

I think they should expect payment from the job they're working, not opensource or "post-opensource" work.

Yep, this kind of attitude is even more reason to reject the broken status quo.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by aboardRat4 »

saubeidl wrote: post #324
aboardRat4 wrote: post #321

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No it's not. GPL is quite the opposite. GPL means that "you own what you buy", which is the foundation of capitalism. You own what you buy, including programs, which you can buy, replicate, modify, and sell. Due to the nature of software, especially in the 80s, it existed in both text and binary form, which made it easy to perverse the nature of selling software from selling code to selling binaries, and big companie…

Going from the capitalism of small business owners to the market socialism of coops is a small step ;)

Well, none of the implementations of Marxism in the XX century worked like this, so I dare to disagree.

Of course, you can always say that America is exceptional, and she will have "Marxism with American characteristics", just like China switched from true socialism to "socialism with Chinese characteristics", but would still recommend avoiding the word which associates with GULAG and mass starvation.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by Muromec »

jibal wrote: post #228
Muromec wrote: post #205

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As a person who had a privilege to live in a commie-block half his life, no, it isn't a better system.

That was Stalinism, not communism. And there are many ways to implement communism, some of which are better than others.

If anything, Stalin-era commie blocks are better than the Khruschov-era commieblock I lived in. That particular brand of communism had a tendency to paperclip-optimize everything in a weird way. Like it's really the opposite of capitalism where you go from an MVP to a fully usable product, but in reverse. You would thing it's optimization, but then you regulate the temperature in winter by opening the window.

In terms of housing and speaking only from personal experience, European brand of social democracy seems to get it.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by egorfine »

UqWBcuFx6NV4r wrote: post #319
egorfine wrote: post #282

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Authors of useless rewrites do: * skip the hard part: designing, getting user feedback and designing again; * get straight to the fun part: coding in their favorite language after a well-established and proven design; * get to call themselves "creator of XXX-rs", where "XXX" is a well-known brand and "-rs" is often overlooked.

For the love of God, drop the culture war BS. We get it, you don’t like Rust. You don’t get to act so self-righteous when you do absolutely nothing to justify the assertion that sudo-rs is “useless”. I look forward to hearing your argument that doesn’t end in “the memory safety footguns of C are massively overstated”, or “there is no value in having a sudo alternative that ditches antiquated, insecure functionality”

I like Rust.

I hate the virtue signaling.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by Zambyte »

fragmede wrote: post #147
Zambyte wrote: post #46

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All of this is true, but ironically Free Software is about ensuring people have control over their computers, and Open Source spun the narrative to make it about getting software cheap or without paying at all. People having control over their computer (and even having the right to share what they run on their computer!) is completely compatible with people paying for software labor.

No it isn't. People having control over their own computer is in direct contradiction with people paying for software labor. In an honest world, sure, but in reality, people don't want to pay for shit and are going to steal from you. The Pirate Bay is still running and isn't going away. So is Anna's archive.

You are conflating software with software labor. You can't download labor.

Re: Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

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Post by thfuran »

Intralexical wrote: post #303
latexr wrote: post #225

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Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention. Heck, I even have tools I no longer use that people asked me to keep available because they do, and they’ve been chugging along for over a decade, no bugs or maintenance necessary. Just today I saw a report of Adobe discontinuing a tool in use by professionals because it is done and they don’…

It's a bit ironic that digital goods, which are arguably the only products which once compiled can be stored, used, and copied perfectly bit-for-bit, are also the only industry that seems to have this problem with being unwilling to call a product "done". The reasons for software churn are economic, cultural, and psychological, not technological.

Physical goods would work the same way if they could be retroactively re-manufactured to different specs in situ for free.
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