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[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] laurelraven 4 points 3 weeks 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