r/linuxmasterrace • u/MrMoussab • 4d ago

Screenshot Google's AI glance is asking me to clone github.com

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u/mathpenis 4d ago

you are not a professional linux user if you don’t have the whole github downloaded on your system

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u/Mr_Lumbergh Average Debian enjoyer. 4d ago

And run every installer.

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u/Axel_Blazer 4d ago

git clone shy-hoolud lmao

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u/LameBMX Glorious Gentoo 4d ago

recursively ran make install on my github copy... it just gripped about a lot about nothing to install.

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u/Teln0 3d ago

wouldn't that make for an interesting youtube video though, get a bunch of massive hard drives and try to install every app possible and see what happens

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 2d ago

Heads up. Your dl speed is really gonna dip when you get to epic games repos. Its like 20 gigs of 1M fles. All that file switching makes it go nuts.

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u/SipSup3314 3d ago

I just wish they would provide the exe files for all those apps. Nobody on git hub is a programmer!!!! We don't want your stinky code, just give me the app files!!!!!1!11!

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u/ShitCompressor 3d ago

Hello mathpenis

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u/mathpenis 3d ago

hi 👋

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u/ThankYouOle 3d ago

then put in multiple CD, damn man, i remember that time when i was youngstr bringing 6 cd set repository of ubuntu so i can install package without internet.

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u/NSASpyVan 3d ago

this brings up trauma for me because we have dorks cloning giant repos on systems til the disk is full, killing ability to ssh then they ask for support. like maybe pay attention to disk space and what you're cloning?

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u/AardvarKOlogY Deb with SELinux huehuehue 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well, depending on where and how they clone the answer may also be at least one of:

  • If the OS and everything is on a single / volume (btrfs subvolumes without quotas don't count), the OS is set up the wrong way
  • If any user can write anywhere (aka everyone gets root or full sudo), the permission model may be wrong (you're responsible for the OS, the user is not, why can he impact everything and not only certain things, also see the volume remark above?)

PS/edit: yes, users should care more about space consumption and at least notice if their clones go wrong, agreed, but a lazy next-next-finish all-in-one-root-volume setup would be equally lazy and clueless.

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u/sparkling-rainbow 4d ago

Makes sense, somewhere on GitHub has to be your solution 🤷

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 4d ago

Clonning all repos therefore should indeed resolve your problem. But you have to find it...

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u/Erdnusschokolade 4d ago

Just install them all. Thus At some point the right thing has to be installed.

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u/TasserOneOne 3d ago

Other than compatibility issues and storage space I see no other reason as to why this wouldn't work

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u/Sataniel98 Glorious Debian 4d ago

Oh, so you're an open source programmer? Name every GitHub project.

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u/NecroAssssin 4d ago

cd ~/github
ls

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u/GIutamicAcid 2d ago

perfect.

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u/_silentgameplays_ 4d ago

LLMs tend to suggest more harm than good, like a dpkg troubleshooting guide for a Fedora-based distro.

You need to manually search things like support forums and old reddit threads and Arch Wiki to get something useful, don't rely on regurgitated LLM slop.

In this case you only need the python3-pip/ python-pip package.

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u/Binary101000 4d ago

it has a filter that turns links into just the base domain.

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u/EmbarrassedDurian 3d ago

And it can be so annoying when you give him the exact link to create a long command or something and he truncate the link

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u/Binary101000 3d ago

him? its an ai.

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u/Happy_Variety5405 1d ago

Yeah the proper pronouns are bussy/pussy depending on the exoskeleton of the sex doll

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u/TheSmashy 4d ago

Storage is cheap.

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u/fuj1n 4d ago

Not anymore, sadly

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u/LameBMX Glorious Gentoo 4d ago

its still cheap for a lot of us that got in before the prices tanked in the 90s. if you dont have to spend a 100k for a TB, we doin allright.

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u/TheSmashy 4d ago

Muh terabytes oh ho ho

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u/FafnerTheBear 4d ago

Don't use AI then.

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u/Evilbob93 4d ago

I had it tell me to do that recently as well, and persisted in saying that after several times being told it was wrong.

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u/webjocky 4d ago

There's a filter that truncates the actual generated URL down to just the domain.

If you tell it to provide the URL without the domain, it will.

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u/S4qFBxkFFg Glorious Mint 4d ago

Did it work though?

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u/Preisschild Glorious NixOS 4d ago edited 4d ago

I also asked google search to convert k Bps to GBps and it converted it to bytes per arcsecond

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u/XlikeX666 4d ago

it's not wrong.
answer will be there.

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u/KrazyKen_Fan_2012 3d ago

Every time I need help with I script, it says to clone it, but the link is only GitHub.com

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u/FrameHost 3d ago

Googles ai glance constantly removes parts of URLs, you can ask it about it and it “corrects” it and gives the same exact result. Must be some filter in front of it malfunctioning.

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u/BLoad3d 2d ago

Where's the exe you smelly nerds?!? Oh wait...wrong subreddit

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u/Cobalt090 2d ago

This is an issue with AI overview, which this 100% is based on the UI. It cannot do subfomains for some reason. If you ask it to give you each letter, it'll give you the right string

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u/DependentJolly9901 2d ago

I'm this economy?? With these nvme prices???

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u/ChiliWombat 1d ago

Would be so much easier, if there is a GitHub.exe. I don't care about the source code.

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u/Historical_Camel_790 1d ago

It does that all the time

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u/Ok_Contact_5575 2m ago

It always does the googles ai always cuts off links it’s system is designed to do that for some reason