Can someone explain to me what this project does? Its it an OS type thing? It seems odd that it would have the kind of access needed to change people's desktop.
A lot of developers just run everything as admin because it's easier than spending the time to properly carve out a user account and permissions. It's a terrible practice and when I mentor I try to discourage it, but a lot of times, especially graduates lately, kind of roll their eyes in a "whatever, old man, I'm never not going to just run as admin in the future to save myself 30 minutes."
Yes. If you use something like BTRFS or ZFS, you can just restore what was lost from a previous snapshot. Hard to do that when you don't have anything on disk anymore. (of course you can then rely on some external backups, but it will take more work)
Can someone explain to me what this project does? Its it an OS type thing? It seems odd that it would have the kind of access needed to change people's desktop.
A lot of developers just run everything as admin because it's easier than spending the time to properly carve out a user account and permissions. It's a terrible practice and when I mentor I try to discourage it, but a lot of times, especially graduates lately, kind of roll their eyes in a "whatever, old man, I'm never not going to just run as admin in the future to save myself 30 minutes."
fags, thats not acceptible from pros. maybe from cousin joe.
Move fast, break everything
i used to rock admin mode but now i keep it on the strictest setting because the number of times i actually have to admin up is low
Software developers use package managers like npm (javascript) in order to easily retrive useful libraries for their app development.
Unfortunately, they often choose to install/run this software as root, which means it can do literally anything on their system.
If you don’t run it as root, you are immune to this developer’s shenanigans.
Yes. If you use something like BTRFS or ZFS, you can just restore what was lost from a previous snapshot. Hard to do that when you don't have anything on disk anymore. (of course you can then rely on some external backups, but it will take more work)
so it was a massive case of lasiness/pebcak with these ngo devs, in essense?
NGO, this is either a 'feelings' operation, or a grifter operation.
Very much so. Developers are very lazy these days.