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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 116 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Is this how one becomes nonbinary?

[–] palordrolap@kbin.run 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

Delete the contents and it's not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

The joke here is more "Tony Lazuto said to execute these files."

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

If you think about it, all files are binary, some just happen to be human-readable.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you're saying Tony Lazuto uses Windows??? That bastard!

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Tony Lazuto says you should delete System32

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 7 points 2 weeks ago

Only if you follow the script(s).

[–] 1boiledpotato@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

This took me way too long

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yup Just delete all binary data from your disks, including the bios and get a quantum computer that you somehow program and control by hand.

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I cleaned my bin.

All that's left is a symlink: sh -> /nix/store/...

[–] jdaxe@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not just symlink to /usr/bin?

Not familiar with NixOS

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

NixOS has two main selling points:

  1. I can declaratively manage my system. That'd probably the Thing you know about it.
  2. but it also uses the Nix Package manager which allows you to install multiple versions of the same program. On Ubuntu, if I update bash from v4.6 to 5.0, it will replace /bin/bash and if any breaking changes were made, any program that has bash 4.6 as dependency won't work anymore. On NixOS binaries are stored in /nix/store with a hash. So bash 4.6 is in /nix/store/hwnfuvshajdbgjajebskhak-bash-4.6 and 5.0 gets installed into /nix/store/638jsvusbhsuksvj76hwlsbj-bash-5.0 This allows us to have programs that depend on a old version of a software installed simultaneously with programs that depend on a new version of it.
[–] grock1722@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

That’s fuckin sick.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Xirup@yiffit.net 60 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The joke is about the bin/ directory on Linux, which contains the binaries of the system (also called executables) which can break the system if you delete it, and also refer to the paper bin where all your trash files go and people tend to delete usually.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, I don't usually think of trash bins by that term

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Could also be referring to something like ~/.local/bin, where you remove unnecessary user-only programs vs. /use/bin where you remove system essential ones.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think of the trash as just "trash." Thanks for explaining the joke.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Surely it should be "cleaned the bin", right? Dialect issues complicate things but the basic problem seems to be that the joke is just ungrammatical.

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago

time to snapshot my latest snapshot

(btrfs)

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This one isn't true of course, but it still feels like it fits

Mr Incredible - Bin is bin!

[–] voidnutcracker@feddit.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clearing build files of your hobby project when you

rm -rf /bin

instead of

rm -rf bin/
[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 3 points 1 week ago
rm -rf bin /
[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

clean your bin not the communal bin

[–] boatsnhos931@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's binjamin u sombitch

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