harassment
From who? What kind of harassment?
young people have problems today
Out of curiosity, what problems are you referring to?
our careers would basically have to restart
Why would your careers need to restart? I took an 18 month sabbatical and went right back in to work.
Things like history aren't relevant to a lot of students
History is relevant to all students.
even redirecting the output to install.sh like in your examples is enough added complexity to make it not work in some cases
You can't have any install method that works in all cases.
if your goal is to have a simple install method anyone can use
Similarly, you can't have an install method anyone can use.
If you can't review a bash script before running it without having an unnecessarily complex one-liner provided to you
Providing an easily copy-and-pastable one-liner does not imply that the reader could not themselves write such a one-liner.
Having the capacity to write one's own commands doesn't imply that there is no value in having a command provided.
unnecessarily complex
LOL
Showing people that are running curl piped to bash the script they are about to run doesn't really accomplish anything. If they can read bash and want to review the script then they can by just opening the URL
What it accomplishes is providing the instructions (i.e. an easily copy-and-pastable terminal command) for people to do exactly that.
Non voters cannot be counted as objectors or supporters.
We don't have to count them as anything.
72% is actually a huge turnout compared to pretty much any vote in the last 50 years
That doesn't contradict anything I said.
As such they must be assumed to divide as the vote was.
This is a non sequitur.
Regardless, OP was talking about votes explicitly.
linux culture
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you're teaching newbies the wrong lessons
The problem is not that it's teaching bad lessons, it's that it's actually doing bad things.
most people can parse that they're essentially asking you to run some commands at a url
I know not to take it completely literally
Then it needn't be written literally.
I think you're giving the authors of such installation instructions too much credit. I think they intend people to take it literally. I think this because I've argued with many of them.
Saved that, thank you.
What announcement?