2016: never, ever run a script unless you know what it does
2026: let a statistical model run random commands for you
@sol_hsa
[Community Note: Don't!]
@sol_hsa unless you know what it does was true in 2006 and 1996 also. In 1986 if you knew what a script was, you probably knew what it did, but that was still good advice.
@sol_hsa I used to think that the `wget -q -O- <some-random-url> | sudo bash` anti-pattern was dangerous and dumb, but then I've watched how a tech company CTO did vibe shell command execution as root.
@matus_chochlik @sol_hsa
yes, I think piping a random download directly into a shell, maybe even a root shell, was an intermediate step that softened people for such bullshit
@sol_hsa this is what I cannot understand at all - we used to have rules where and how to run computers in critical enviroment. What software was allowed and how we personally had to check and recheck, i.e. in medicine/clinics.
And now we use non-reliable tools, that might have non-checked unreliable A.I. inside even in an environment where lives are at stake. This is a time of madness.
@energisch_
There is no rule so rigid that it can withstand our laziness
@sol_hsa

@energisch_ @sol_hsa to be fair, they all state in der eula, more or less, that it's for entertainment purpose only and not meant for critical systems …

but yeah. who tf reads this shit except the llm that distilles it into tldr instructions or, helpful as always, friendly asks: would you like me to rm -f this for you? so glad to be at your service ;)

@energisch_ @sol_hsa Tech illiterate people use technology they trust but do not understand. Smartphones and tablet computers were designed to be magical black boxes you do not have to understand. This design changed how people use those tools.
@Purple_Lilith @energisch_ @sol_hsa and it enabled #Enshittification even harder, as they are #ConsumptionDevices designed to prevent users from controlling their devices!
@sol_hsa dafuq is wrong with society?