Simple age check for Linux:
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@notbobbytables @stacksmashing Wait, is there a reason I should not be using ifconfig?
@CanLehmann @stacksmashing Good question. I mean, it has been deprecated for more than 10 years now, without any real consequences.
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@CanLehmann @stacksmashing Good question. I mean, it has been deprecated for more than 10 years now, without any real consequences.
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οΈ@notbobbytables @CanLehmann deprecated but not forgotten

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@notbobbytables @CanLehmann deprecated but not forgotten

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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing once you go `ip -br a` you never go back
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing I've fully retrained myself to use ip for common tasks, but I resorted to ifconfig the other day to assign a second, static IP to an existing interface
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing My personal hell version of this is keeping forgetting about systemd timers and just getting pissed when I don't find what I'm looking for with crontab
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing For FreeBSD:
If youβre using FreeBSD, youβre old enough.
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing always so annoying when ifconfig returns βcommand not foundβ
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@stacksmashing What if they type ipconfig /all ?

@hisold @stacksmashing
Ban them for life, unfriend and block -
@notbobbytables @stacksmashing Wait, is there a reason I should not be using ifconfig?
@notbobbytables @CanLehmann @stacksmashing on Linux, it only displays a subset of the IPs on an iface (on BSD it works). I guess they invented a NIH thing because they didnβt manage to fix that.
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing if their host has more 3 active physical network interfaces, they clearly know what they're doing and know more than any dumb politician. If they only have IPv6 active then they know more than most ISPs.
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@stacksmashing once you go `ip -br a` you never go back
@n @stacksmashing i know that plenty of tools do it, but i'm old enough to consider multi-letter arguments with a single hyphen sacrilege
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing Itβs the other way around, `ifconfig` relies on deprecated APIs since 10+ years and is unreliable (as well as having one of the worst UX).
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Simple age check for Linux:
Just have the shell ask the user to check the host IP on first boot.
If they type ifconfig they are old enough, if they type ip they deserve to be restricted from their computer

@stacksmashing Alternatively ask the user to enter a syntactically correct perl statement. Bonus points for just
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@stacksmashing Alternatively ask the user to enter a syntactically correct perl statement. Bonus points for just
;@G33KatWork typing Perl gets you a 20% discount on your next colonoscopy
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