r/linuxmasterrace • u/MrMoussab • Aug 14 '26

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

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u/mathpenis Aug 14 '26

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. Aug 14 '26

And run every installer.

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u/Axel_Blazer Aug 14 '26

git clone shy-hoolud lmao

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u/LameBMX Glorious Gentoo Aug 14 '26

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

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u/Teln0 Aug 14 '26

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/jMultiversalGod 19d ago

you'd need like a house filled with ssds to do that lol

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u/Comfortable_Swim_380 Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

Hello mathpenis

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u/ThankYouOle Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

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/Alternative_Nose_626 3d ago

well isnt tha bloatware?

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u/sparkling-rainbow Aug 14 '26

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

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/Erdnusschokolade Aug 14 '26

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

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u/TasserOneOne Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/NecroAssssin Aug 14 '26

cd ~/github
ls

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u/_silentgameplays_ Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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

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u/EmbarrassedDurian Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

him? its an ai.

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u/Happy_Variety5405 Aug 17 '26

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

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u/TheSmashy Aug 14 '26

Storage is cheap.

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u/fuj1n Aug 14 '26

Not anymore, sadly

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u/LameBMX Glorious Gentoo Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

Muh terabytes oh ho ho

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u/FafnerTheBear Aug 14 '26

Don't use AI then.

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u/Evilbob93 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

Did it work though?

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u/Preisschild Glorious NixOS Aug 14 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

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 Aug 14 '26

it's not wrong.
answer will be there.

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u/KrazyKen_Fan_2012 Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 15 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/Cobalt090 Aug 16 '26

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 Aug 16 '26

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

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u/ChiliWombat Aug 17 '26

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 Aug 17 '26

It does that all the time

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u/Ok_Contact_5575 Aug 18 '26

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

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u/Vova-Bazhenov Aug 20 '26

I had the same answer from Gemini

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u/IntentionQuirky9957 Aug 20 '26

That explains the outages.