ls vs ls -a: The Hidden Files Are Where the Mess Lives

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A two-panel photo meme labeled 'home' at the top in monospace font. The top panel, labeled 'ls', shows a tidy bedroom: made bed, oriental rug, beanbag chair, dresser, lamps, and neatly stacked clear storage bins. The bottom panel, labeled 'ls -a', shows the same room in total chaos - toys, papers, laundry baskets, boxes, and clutter strewn across the entire floor. The meme maps the Unix `ls` command (which hides dotfiles) versus `ls -a` (which shows all hidden files) onto a home directory metaphor: your $HOME looks clean until you reveal the dozens of hidden config directories and caches every app has dumped there

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UnixCommands Dotfiles CLI CommandLineInterface TerminalCommands Linux Filesystem VisualMetaphors

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every app swears it follows XDG, yet `ls -a ~` still looks like nobody's cleaned since 1993

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Every app swears it follows XDG, yet `ls -a ~` still looks like nobody's cleaned since 1993
Anonymous

Nothing is ever clean; `ls` just ships with plausible deniability.
@SamsonovAnton 5mo

git log master git branch
@azizhakberdiev 5mo

forgot to add /node_modules into .gitignore
1. @SheepGod 5mo
  
  well yes but you could also argue that knowing how to make a pipebomb is not something ordinary citizens need to know or bordering on illegal i wouldnt say that would be public information
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 5mo
  
  We should ban pipe bombs because they can be used to kill people
  
  @afdanilkin 5mo
  
  Why? And how would you enforce that? The knowledge of how to make a bomb is composed of physics, material science, chemistry, engineering, manufacturing, math and many other thing. Which ones exactly do you hide, how do you choose a precise point on where to draw the line? To me it sounds completely impossible to do so, and trying it results in all the random prohibitions and repressions that we have now
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 5mo
  
  no child needs to know science
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  Or sex ed, history, health, chemistry, writing, math
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 5mo
  
  public education be like
  
  @blue_bonsai 5mo
  
  Especially sex ed
  
  @DerKnerd 5mo
  
  yes we need more pregnant teens
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  9/10 republicans agree
  
  @endedinlimbo 5mo
  
  Okay, how the fuck did we get here….
  
  @afdanilkin 5mo
  
  Yes, that is unfortunately the world where we live in, where knowledge is not appreciated and even stigmatized (people interested in having it are called “crazy nerds” and other names) and only obedience and blind trust in authorities is normalized. I am increadibly sad because of that 😭
  
  @Daonifur 5mo
  
  In fact, it's actually easier to get work if you do what the latter is instead of the former
@blue_bonsai 5mo

Let them discover like in good ol' times
@blue_bonsai 5mo

So maybe we fix birth rates
@endedinlimbo 5mo

🤔
@azizhakberdiev 5mo

I love how one wrong reply made reply chain of an entirely different conversation bleed onto here. It also kinda fits this meme
dev_meme 5mo

-alh
1. @chupasaurus 5mo
  
  last one adds human-readable number of molecules, atoms or particles?

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