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

Description

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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CLI Configuration OperatingSystems Storage

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UnixCommands Dotfiles CLI CommandLineInterface TerminalCommands Linux Filesystem VisualMetaphors

Comments

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

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

  2. Anonymous

    Nothing is ever clean; `ls` just ships with plausible deniability.

  3. @SamsonovAnton 7mo

    git log master git branch

  4. @azizhakberdiev 7mo

    forgot to add /node_modules into .gitignore

    1. @SheepGod 7mo

      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

      1. @ZmEYkA_3310 7mo

        We should ban pipe bombs because they can be used to kill people

      2. @afdanilkin 7mo

        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

        1. @TheFloofyFloof 7mo

          no child needs to know science

          1. @Daonifur 7mo

            Or sex ed, history, health, chemistry, writing, math

            1. @TheFloofyFloof 7mo

              public education be like

            2. @blue_bonsai 7mo

              Especially sex ed

              1. @DerKnerd 7mo

                yes we need more pregnant teens

                1. @Daonifur 7mo

                  9/10 republicans agree

                2. @endedinlimbo 7mo

                  Okay, how the fuck did we get here….

          2. @afdanilkin 7mo

            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 😭

            1. @Daonifur 7mo

              In fact, it's actually easier to get work if you do what the latter is instead of the former

  5. @blue_bonsai 7mo

    Let them discover like in good ol' times

  6. @blue_bonsai 7mo

    So maybe we fix birth rates

  7. @endedinlimbo 7mo

    🤔

  8. @azizhakberdiev 7mo

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

  9. dev_meme 7mo

    -alh

    1. @chupasaurus 7mo

      last one adds human-readable number of molecules, atoms or particles?

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