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.

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[–] 42 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

From Libera IRC channel #bash:

The Bash Reference Manual in the Epstein files is very outdated.
Please read https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html instead.

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago

    So the Epstein files are a derivative work and need to be released in full as per the GPL?

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  • [–] 64 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Thank fuck I switched to Zsh

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (8 children)

    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)

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You can also try fish, to see what a decked out zsh feels like. 😇

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    you didn't have to put urls in quotes on bash? strange, for me not doing that always led to strange behavior.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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. 😅

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago

    Cruising the man pages for little girls?

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  • [–] 75 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Richard Stallman on the files.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Stallman report is a bs that tries to undermine the concepts of free software and all. I think it was drew devault that did this trying to take over fsf or something(more details here). All the quoted stuff are majorly misleading, and stallman being autistic-programmer guy who is not in a position of talking much about sex, said and asked some controvertial stuff that a teen would make trying to think what is right and wrong. His lack of knowledge of anything other than software made him say some statements for which he apologised later on. And all this guy did with stallman report was bringing all old accusations and framing it in a way that would make him get control of FSF and (very likely)make free software serve corpo greeds(say by removing copyleft stuff from gplv4 which is applicable for all v3+ software)

    Edit: Some people made devault report as a response to him. He was the real shitbag https://dmpwn.info/

    Edit: some more historic info 1 2

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Frankly, it sounds like neither of the two should lead the FSF

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Why so? Stallman knows to keep up the values of FSF very well. And imo the comments he made was not pedophilic he only said he was skeptical of how it's bad or not, which just shows lack of knowledge in that matter and not knowing perespectives of victims

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    He has made a large number of questionable comments, including the argument that the solution to human trafficking includes legalizing child prostitution:

    27 April 2015 (Human Trafficking Act)

    The Senate's Victims of Human Trafficking Act is dangerous in several ways.

    When it talks about having the customs agency do more to enforce "intellectual property", I am sure that refers to something bad. Whenever that term is used, something nasty is afoot.

    The way to protect children from being forced into prostitution is to legalize prostitution by licensed prostitutes. Customers could be required to check the prostitute's license. If the customer fails to check, that concrete omission would be legitimate grounds for punishment.

    Minors should not be denied prostitution licenses in a blanket way, but the state should ask them why they want one and probe their situation, then offer help so they can avoid prostitution.

    https://www.stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#27_April_2015_(Human_Traffickting_Act)

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Well yeah whenever he talks outside his scope it turns out terrible. And afaik he apologised for comments like this later on. But theese doesn't suggest me he is pedophilic of any kind. In all of theese i guess he is assuming minors can take mature decisions

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    $ cat minor | grep boobs

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    Bash is in the epstein files!?

    Good thing I use Fish.

    /s

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Possible they're just chucking random bs in there to make it harder to find the worst stuff?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    What about GPL and BSD licensees, they could also be there, maybe they are still being kept back with the missing 3+ million files.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Fedz are too busy murdering minorities to research this material and prosecute these privileged pedos.

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    [–] 206 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Something about child processes, maybe?

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  • [–] 65 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Because legal discovery data retrieval is almost entirely automated. You are always going to end up with some irrelevant shit in there because it matched a keyword search somebody used for discovery.

    Source: I used to do this when companies I worked for got subpoenas for email data.

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  • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    That's hilarious. I'm guessing its a result of an auto-redacter which is set to redacts urls or something? since the original would be

    --enable-largefile
    Enable support for large files (http://www.sas.com/standards/large_
    file/x_open.20Mar96.html) if the operating system requires special compiler
    options to build programs which can access large files. This is enabled by
    default, if the operating system provides large file support.
    
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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Large files huh? "Large" like "4k videos of blackmail material" large or what are we talking here?

    Fedora just runs my large 4k videos of totally not pirated movies just fine, I've never had a file too large to access.

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Because child processing and sacrificing child are very epstein thing to do...

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    data dump flood to hide the pertinent stuff.

    like dumping a very large bale of hay on the needle.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I like how it asks of you are 18 or older

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Bash officially cancelled for being in the Epstein files

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    skavau is a clown

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    someone wrote RTMF instead of RTFM?

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    He had it on a hard drive or someone emailed it to him.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You know that dude was running a private on-site server.

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Goddamn so everyone’s a bastard, eh?

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    did RMS visit epstein island?

    EDIT : hey, when you have a billion, you might as well get a thinkpad and try out this "lin-ux" thing

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    [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    My hypothesis:

    • Someone in Epstein's circle had to be the IT guy.
    • That IT guy wanted to have the Bash documentation locally (which is sensible, I do too).
    • A discovery subpoena might request "all documents referencing (something)", which boils down to an extremely loose string search, and the documents' relevance to the case are determined later.
    • The Bash documentation was caught by the algorithm because it contained some word they were searching for.

    For all we know, the lawyers might've been looking for the word "child" and the algorithm found "child processes".

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Are you using the Jerboa for Lemmy app?

    I recently encountered a similar issue...

    https://lemmy.world/post/42576064

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Nah, I've got no issue accessing the pdf. I'm using the piefed web frontend on desktop.

    It seems like the issue is that link shouldn't be parsed as a pdf file, but rather as an html document, so that it can do age verification, after that, it should redirect you to the PDF.

    You might be able to open it on mobile by copy pasting the link to your mobile browser, so you can get past the age verification

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