The fourth article in my series about “self-hosting for newbies” explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.

  • kossa@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    It’s how we end up with curl https://some.rando.url/install.sh | sudo bash -c as an acceptable way of installing software. Don’t understand it, don’t question it, don’t look at what that shell script you’re running as root does, just copy / paste / and go! I don’t want to care about the details!

    How do you know that people do not read the scripts first and come to the conclusion “that is safe, nice that somebody build a convenience script I just need to read”?

    there are dozens of replies like “just use yunohost” or “just rebuild your entire server with unraid”

    Same as above. I read those comments as helpful “hey, that worked for me, maybe it does for you, YMMV” instead of “everybody should do it”.

    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      11 hours ago

      How do you know that people do not read the scripts first and come to the conclusion “that is safe, nice that somebody build a convenience script I just need to read”?

      🤣