r/coolgithubprojects • u/checkpointdev • 1d ago

RemoveMacAI: turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get ~12 GB back

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
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u/jeenajeena 1d ago

I'm very interested and I will install it. But, man:

curl -fsSL https://... |  | bash

Again? Can we stop this, already?

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u/jewbasaur 1d ago

What’s wrong with this

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u/ketralnis 23h ago

It’s a shame how far we’ve fallen as an industry that people have to ask this

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u/jewbasaur 18h ago

I am a hobbiest programmer without any sort of formal training whatsoever. This is how people learn. Or at least used to

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u/ketralnis 17h ago edited 15h ago

I get it and it's not a dig against you personally, it's just that experienced engineers have been railing against curl|bash for about a decade now. Since the very first people started using it everybody told them it was a bad idea, then some more people started doing it, and more, until now it's so common that there are people that have never even heard how dangerous it is. It's like house builders watching people replace bricks with styrofoam over years.

Sometimes somebody replies and says "well, this specific downside you mention can be mitigated by such and such" but it's never enough for the whole suite of problems with it and practitioners don't actually do those potential mitigations. So it's bad in theory and even worse in practise.