App automatically responds "yes" to boring installation dialogs

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/10/12/app-automatically-responds-y.html

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I’m actually listening to Yes right now.

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This is actually a really important program and we use it all the time for automated installs.

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“Format C: (Yes/No)?”

No way this could go wrong, no, never…

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fortuantly for you it doesn’t work in windows

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But that is exactly how we install spyware with every legit install we try. No thanks.

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You aren’t even close to thinking big enough…

yes yes | terraform destroy
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I know that there’s a joke about Manufacturing Consent here; I’m just having a little trouble optimizing it.

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First I thought you’d get caught in those final questions “Can we install this totally unrelated browser extension along with your program?” but then I saw it’s not for Windows so I assume those kind of things don’t pop up?

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I dunno about that, but this new automation is going to put a lot of Yes Men out of business.

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I have half a gig free on my hard drive. Would you recommend this application to me?

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They should call this new version hell-yes.

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The man page for BSD style unices is most helpful:


NAME
     yes -- be repetitively affirmative

SYNOPSIS
     yes [expletive]

DESCRIPTION
     yes outputs expletive, or, by default, ``y'', forever.

HISTORY
     The yes command appeared in 4.0BSD.

4th Berkeley Distribution        June 6, 1993        4th Berkeley Distribution
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Kind of interesting how the seemingly simplest of programs can end up being pretty damn complicated.

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