[verisimilitudes]

I'm being trolled by someone who finds a DNS lookup and an encrypted TCP connection to send a textual command to another machine is somehow impressive, rather than entirely basic and, again, unimpressive.

It then puts the result into a form that can be used programmatically by the local shell.

That does sound better than returns one octet with two well-defined values, sure.

And already the expert. Impressive.

I know UNIX is shit with a legion of cultists.

Hey, if we live in the best of all possible worlds, explain the market dominance of Windows. Did MicroSoft give Windows away for nothing, to poor unsuspecting university students who decided to hack on it instead of learn what a real computer is, until none remained?

[throwawaylinux]

You seem quite unhinged for a self-proclaimed expert. Maybe it's time for a break from the internet.

[verisimilitudes]

It's easy to support the status quo, until someone points out numerous issues with it, I know.

At least read my website before calling me unhinged.

[throwawaylinux]

It's even easier to shit on the status quo without having anything better.

> At least read my website before calling me unhinged.

No. I've seen countless tech prophets peddling snake oil over the decades, and it's always the same. Everything is dumb, poorly versed in the state of the art and history, but this magical ill-thought-out thing will somehow solve everything. It's very boring and predictable.