Honestly I have patched a few debian packages manually before. Sqlite in particular - I needed a new trigger feature so I built the damn thing from scratch and installed it.

I think doing that probably caused some debian dev to literally die.

Debian getting an update? What wizardry is this? Oh wait it still has a 9 year old version of sqlite.

it’s so simple!

ping -c 4 $(mysql -u frodo -p keepyoursecrets -D /home/pingtargets.db -se "SELECT ip FROM servers ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1;")

Can you change the password prompt to “tell me your safeword first:”?