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What were the magic letters you need to add again, to just fucking unpack something? (feddit.org)
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[โ€“] pinkystew@reddthat.com -3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why are long standing conventions a good thing? Slavery was a longstanding convention.

[โ€“] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

No human rights are violated by tar functioning the way it does, but changing it would cause a lot of problems without good reason since you could just as easily write an alias or wrapper to simplify the usage