• 00000@reddthat.com
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    19 hours ago

    Dude should never be allowed to touch a computer again. How do these people get hired? He Googled “homebrew,” clicked a fucking ad, landed at the page in the screenshot, then ran that insanely obviously suspicious terminal command to “install” it. Are you joking.

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      7 hours ago

      I got a Captcha on some search result a few weeks ago that initially looked legitimate then came up with this.

      It had put obfuscated code on my clipboard to download and run an executable.

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      14 hours ago

      I agree with you, but unfortunately “just run this command” is how the brew page works, so mac users are trained to just do that, and I can believe they did it without looking (although that command would have me asking questions as well) - a similar looking brew page to the above that is the genuine brew page, and which just has a "copy and paste this into your terminal" instruction for installing

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          7 hours ago

          The only alternative is windows.

          The worst part, honestly, is that when you ctrl+D a terminal, it says “shell has exited,” and then the window stays open.

          Whoever made this decision should be flogged.

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      10 hours ago

      This is partly on software devs these past 10-15 years. They’ve gotten so much lazier when it comes to making their software easy to install. Legitimate software often ends up having a 10-long list of instructions to install it.

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      18 hours ago

      What the fuck? I did that when i was like 13. If someone wrote this as a story, no one would believe it, because its too stupid, but fucking hell, reality is dumber than fiction.