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egorfine 2 days ago

> I honestly can't understand the appeal.

Virtue signaling.

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KitsumiTheFox 2 days ago | parent [-]

I fail to see how the term virtue signaling applies to what you highlighted, care to elaborate?

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egorfine 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Rust rewrites of existing rock stable applications is only done for performative reasons as there are no merits.

	▲	db48x 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Sudo may not be as “rock stable” as you suppose. The sudo-rs project has discovered a number of exploitble bugs in sudo that had existed for years. And remember that sudo was itself a replacement for earlier tools like su. It has no special claim to be the one and only tool for the job.
	▲	pjmlp 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And pimp up my CV kind of stuff.

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kelseyfrog 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The virtues being signaled are trust, reliability, and generosity. The mechanism is rust-washing. Like greenwashing, rust-washing has the appearance of and takes credit for the virtues without actually delivering on them.