Notices by ‏lol‏ ‏fedifriend (cat aspect) (samgai@vocalounge.cafe), page 4

@aliss @tost That looks reasonable to me. It might give you some false negatives, depending on the particular subset of shell syntax that /etc/os-release wants to use.

@tost @aliss Please don't do substring matches on data that has a well-defined structure... That's how we wound up with the mess that is HTTP User-Agent, with browser extensions breaking upon the browser reaching version 100, etc...

@tost @aliss If you're not worried about the file containing malware (which an OS-defined file hopefully shouldn't), you can do:

sh -c '. /etc/os-release; echo $ID; echo $ID_LIKE' | grep -qxe debian

@puniko @vib I wonder what kind of BODY vib accepts...

@mametsuko Abolish the horny jail!

@puniko is innocent, they've got a licence to be horny! @mametsuko

@puniko A physically proximate attacker can also cause a denial of service via a commonly available construction tool (a hammer).

How to discover more content for your fedi timeline:

1. follow @puniko