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8 months agoRule of acquisition number 1,337: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
Rule of acquisition number 1,337: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
I mean it’s good practice generally just in case, even when it’s not needed it makes it more maintainable
I usually go with YAGNI but shell quoting can get to be a pain so I try to do it right in scripts or aliases
But for a single one-off invocation lol definitely not quoting echo args
The intelligence apparatus of the West has gotten up to some hinky things in the past, but 1. Not to the same degree by a long shot when it comes to end user devices (they’re far more likely to monitor communications from datacenters and cooperative platforms) and 2. Even if you’re already compromised by 1 nation state, why would you want to be compromised by 2?