I'm definitely not your overlord. Nope, not at all, not sure why you'd ever think that. Definitely no sarcasm in this comment.

The main thing is just make sure you know what the command is going to do before you run it. There are no specific commands that are dangerous, there are many ways to make a dangerous command. For example, if you see rm, that's the remove command. It deletes files permanently. Once rm removes a file, there's no trash you can retrieve it from, it's gone forever, so make sure it isn't deleting anything important. Some important things are / and ~. If you see a command removing / like the one Sleepless One mentioned, that's removing all the files on your system. / is the root directory, it's the place where everything on your computer is stored. ~ is your home directory. It's where things like your documents, pictures, etc. are stored. So, if someone gives you sudo rm -r ~ or something, do not run that. If it's something like ~/.config/somefile, that's fine because it's deleting a specific file inside your home directory rather than the whole thing.

sudo is just running things as root, which is an account on every Linux system that has permission to do everything. The dangerous part is running a sudo command if you don't know what it's doing, because using the extra permissions, a command can do things like delete your files, break your system, install malware, etc. sudo itself isn't going to do anything bad, but the command it runs could.

Mostly as a joke. No one seriously uses it as a descriptor. We call ourselves Marxists-Leninists.

That term wasn't made up by us lol, we stole it from libs when they started calling us that.

We support Stalin and Mao because they advanced the Marxist cause. We support them because they worked towards establishing communism. Most of what the west spreads about them is blatant propaganda. The CIA itself admitted in an internal brief that Stalin was never a dictator. I also personally know people who have lived under Stalin and speak very highly of him. If you read their works, it would be obvious that they're not monsters and they never were.

Oh, that's what you meant. Yeah, that could be an issue, but I imagine at least some hosts will pay for the API if it affects them, depending on how much it costs. Hopefully they can continue to work. If not, it might be time to do some web scraping and get around the API.

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