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It's heating up over on Tumblr (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Okay… uhm… consider me out of the loop here: What is a “gimmick account” and how is the first reply related to that?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You have to install them from the AUR using :

yay -S tumblr-gimmick-git

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Don't do that. You can install them from the Ubuntu repos.

Sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry no, I don't think OP asked to have a Snap installed without her consent

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

> sudo apt install tumblr-gimmick
> look inside
> it's a snap
> look closer
> it's malware

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I think the joke would work better if you notice something new after looking closer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

sh: Sudo: command not found

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

A gimmick account is an account that has one (or more) gimmick or bit that the account does and only does. So in this case there were two (unofficial) distro accounts giving support terminal commands to install something from their appropriate repos