this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2024
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[–] [email protected] 113 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Is this how one becomes nonbinary?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days 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."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] marcos 3 points 5 days ago

Tony Lazuto says you should delete System32

[–] Thcdenton 6 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Only if you follow the script(s).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

This took me way too long

[–] Ziglin 1 points 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Clearing build files of your hobby project when you

rm -rf /bin

instead of

rm -rf bin/
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago
rm -rf bin /
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I cleaned my bin.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why not just symlink to /usr/bin?

Not familiar with NixOS

[–] Neon 11 points 5 days ago

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.
[–] TrickDacy 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 days 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 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zangoose 3 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

time to snapshot my latest snapshot

(btrfs)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

Mr Incredible - Bin is bin!

[–] boatsnhos931 2 points 4 days ago

It's binjamin u sombitch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

clean your bin not the communal bin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Me, an American: