Re: UNIX is UNIX...what is Linux?

[Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>]

John Posada wrote:
> but you should have warned me that it was going to
> play a sound clip...now everyone in a two-row radius knows how to
> pronounce it and some of them didn't care to know.

Coming full-circle, most desktop Linux folks have no use for browser
"helper" apps, where outside handlers are automatically spawned
based on the MIME-type of downloaded files ... and then run them.
It's okay to remember what I usually use to open this or that, but I
need to be asked before it runs.

So there are three states:  (1) always ask what I want to do with
anything not sent as `text/html` (or comparable); (2) ask, but
remember what I've used before, for convenience; and (3) remember
what I've used before to open [MIME-type], and just do it.  That
third choice trades vulnerability for convenience -- system
vulnerability and social vulnerability.  Do not use.

LQ
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