Researchers disclose a 55-year-old vulnerability affecting macOS, Windows and Linux. Exploitation is trivial and requires no special tools. No patch exists.
Honestly, I want to be allowed to break my system. I own it, it should do exactly what I say, warnings are fine, but software deciding it knows better than you is how we have reached the inescapable technogulag of the now.
I will say, in the world where you can’t do anything with “con:” or “prn:” or a few others in DOS, the fact that you CAN force Linux to let you completely and utterly fuck yourself if you truly want to… is great. lol
In my experience, Linux only allows you to do 1 incredibly stupid thing at a time. Remove sudo? Cool. Remove apt? You betcha. Remove apt AND sudo? You’re fucking nuts, I ain’t doing that
Honestly, I want to be allowed to break my system. I own it, it should do exactly what I say, warnings are fine, but software deciding it knows better than you is how we have reached the inescapable technogulag of the now.
You can, if you create an empty file at
/etc/apt/break-my-systemfirst. It’s intentionally not mentioned to prevent another Linus situationWow, I thought you might be joking but this is real
https://github.com/pop-os/apt/pull/1/files#diff-94ba980dc72616d5d15b341b827cb979343fcb0f20c4e0ab8910fa2e502e48e2R310
Because of course you can.
I will say, in the world where you can’t do anything with “con:” or “prn:” or a few others in DOS, the fact that you CAN force Linux to let you completely and utterly fuck yourself if you truly want to… is great. lol
In my experience, Linux only allows you to do 1 incredibly stupid thing at a time. Remove sudo? Cool. Remove apt? You betcha. Remove apt AND sudo? You’re fucking nuts, I ain’t doing that
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
Freedom 0 says I can be nuts and that clankers better obey
You could always try using “sudo dpkg -r --force-all apt” instead. It won’t clean up the dependencies, admittedly.