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  • the alternatives do not include a nationwide search as part of their features

    that’s what palantir is for, unfortunately. I would be shocked if they didn’t already have a “solution” for this, or at least if they aren’t already working on it.

    and Axon sure as shit ain’t broke, being the rebranded literal Taser company, they can afford the R&D to develop it, and will probably get free cash from the fascist government to do so in the near future anyways





  • Noxy@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•RTFM is Sage
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    1 year ago

    Following the openbsd example from the original comment I replied to, it has absolutely nothing to say about what brackets mean, so this advice would not be helpful for an openbsd system: https://man.openbsd.org/man

    On my personal linux system (arch derivative, by the way), it at least mentions brackets meaning optional, but only in the context of arguments:

       [-abc]             any or all arguments within [ ] are optional.
    

    I think this would trip up some new users. The destination, with or without the username to connect as, may not seem like an “argument” to a new user since it doesn’t have a dash before it like the example does


  • Noxy@pawb.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•RTFM is Sage
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    No worries, didn’t feel demeaned but wanted to be clear that it was an attempt to try to ignore ~23 years of ssh muscle memory to try to guess what might trip up a new Linux user

    Very much true in my case - I couldn’t explain what the, like… “idiomatic” meaning of those brackets is, I only guess from context and experience, and it remains a minor peeve of mine that such symbology is widely used but rarely explained




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    1 year ago

    ssh connects and logs into the specified destination, which may be specified as either [user@]hostname or a URI of the form ssh://[user@]hostname[:port]

    ssh [admin@]192.168.1.1
    ssh: Could not resolve hostname ]192.168.1.1: No address associated with hostname
    

    That’s how I would interpret that part of the man page had I no familiarity with ssh. It doesn’t seem reasonable to expect the reader to know what those brackets mean.