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Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support (www.theregister.com)
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It's hard to imagine something as fundamental to computing as the sudo command becoming abandonware, yet here we are: its solitary maintainer is asking for help to keep the project alive.

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago

imagine if he said fuck it and turned sudo into a crypto mining malware

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 33 points 23 hours ago

sudo rm $(which sudo)

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