Well that script was ran on enough other computers, so the magic algorithm decided if everyone else ran it, it must be fine.

What language was it written in? I read that Microsoft Defender likes to flag the baked-in runtime of some languages as malware because they commonly shows up in actual nalware.

The script was from a verified source.

you are being protected, please don't resist.

Nah I use both pretty regularly and I'm fairly sure macOS still makes you do the "nope sorry, press ok, go into system settings, security panel, become admin and click trust this unknown publisher" thing

Windows still just does the same safescreen thing they've been doing for ages now: "windows stopped this unknown thing from running, wanna run it anyway?"

I tried running it on your_mom and it threw up an error: "No space left on disk."

I'm going to mount your_mom on my /

rm -rf /

Go vroooooooooooom

Me: "Do the thing."

OS: "no."

Me: "Fuck you. Sudo do the thing."

OS: "yes sir. Right away sir."

That is the way it should be.

The main thing Apple has going for them is their UI/UX is great for the average person, and all of their products just work with each other.

But yeah, from a sysadmin point of view it's garbage.

Shh, don’t stop them when they’re acting superior

This meme might be referring to the RedSun zero-day, currently unpatched in Win10 & Win11, where detected malicious SW gets installed to the system folder for you by defender.

Yeah, but no free ones.

You can run what ever you want, it doesn’t stop you outright, it just asks you a bunch of times and makes you jump through some hoops if the program isn’t from a verified source. It’s annoying for someone who knows what they’re doing, but arguably a good backstop to keep someone clueless from running something hostile. It’s a complicated enough process that someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing won’t be able to run it.

Arguably it’s overkill and them trying to force users to stay in their closed “verified” garden, but it’s not totally unjustified.

Apple blocks even apps that they define as "too old".

Like every new version of Macintosh forces every developer to scramble and update their app even though nothing needs to change just so Apple doesn't block them.

You can. You can also install other package managers like brew.

I think thatsthejoke.jpg

That's kind of dated. All the times I've done this recently it's gone seconds after I screwed up.

Linux experience:

What really is a virus? Software is software, bro 🤷‍♂️