The Epstein Files include a copy of the Bash manual
It's probably there just because it was one of the many files preinstalled on one of Epstein's computers that the FBI nabbed. Still funny.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00315849.pdfOpen linkView original on programming.dev
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Richard Stallman on the files.
They either die a hero or live long enough to be the villain 😪
I am not the biggest Richard Stallman fan, and this was also my first thought. But in the interest of truth, it is very unfair to portray him this way.
What Stallman argued for was correctness. He is guilty of pedantry, not pedophilia. Did he do it badly. Yes. Was it a socially risky position to take? For sure. Is he a child predator? Not based on any evidence I have seen.
There are actual child predators out there. Let’s focus on them.
https://stallmansupport.org/
we should all know this by now
Thank fuck I switched to Zsh
I hate how I need to put URLs in quotes now that I switched to zsh. But over 2025 I finally internalized the fact that I have to.
Otherwise, as a CLI novice, I have not noticed much being different.
(macOS, I finally ran the command to migrate a year or two ago)
Look into "Oh My Zsh" or similar plugin managers. OMZ is bloated as fuuuck and you'll probably want to replace it with your own custom configs at some point, but it's the easiest way to see what a decked out zsh feels like. It's a good starting point for sure.
Personally I'm down to just 4 plugins with minor config tweaks on top of a bare zsh install. I've read good things about Starship but I'm happy with my current setup.
You can also try fish, to see what a decked out zsh feels like. 😇
Aahhh, so true! 😅 I tweaked zsh more and more and... then tried fish and found it to be what I wanted from zsh with some extra funbits I'm happy to have anyway :3
I have been unfairly biased against fish ever since Phil Fish became public enemy #1 many years ago. I don't even remember what the controversy was about, but fuck him and the unix shell he has absolutely nothing to do with.
Now that you’ve set zsh as default … switch to fish
you didn't have to put urls in quotes on bash? strange, for me not doing that always led to strange behavior.
I wouldn’t be surprised that it was just the few things I use that didn’t care. YouTube-dl was one of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if I was living a lie, and zsh enforced what should have been normal across the board.
I’m not that aware or savvy about the structure of the terminal and what a shell even is. 😅
Maybe it depends on the URL having spaces, slashes, ...
If it's only www.somepage.tld maybe it doesn't need the quotes.
From Libera IRC channel
#bash:Libera is a good choice.
So the Epstein files are a derivative work and need to be released in full as per the GPL?
Cruising the man pages for little girls?
$ cat minor | grep boobs
Bash is in the epstein files!?
Good thing I use Fish.
/s
What about GPL and BSD licensees, they could also be there, maybe they are still being kept back with the missing 3+ million files.
Possible they're just chucking random bs in there to make it harder to find the worst stuff?
"The Epstein files contain the entirety of Project Gutenberg in twenty different fonts."
careful with those asterisks. sh -it can/*/it
Fedz are too busy murdering minorities to research this material and prosecute these privileged pedos.