This post is just pure ignorance of what dd is about. Try messing around with operative systems and not just being the cool guy with a terminal and you'll see that dd is useful.
dd is pretty standard if you know it. Just because it isn't a standard to you, doesn't mean it isn't for everyone.
There are a lot of commands I don't use regularly that I saw once, which appeared strange to me. There were different way to do what tey did. Yet I didn't feel compelled to write a salty blog post about it.
I think the authors point is that dd is a specialised command, and for most common tasks (where the precise details don't matter), it's often not the best tool for the job.
I didn't come away with the impression that you should never use it.
is there the need for a blog post saying a command has a specific usage given how the unix philosophy is exactly to have many composable specialised commands ?
People can blog about whatever they want. I think people on HN and other platforms often forget: Just because the content ended up here, doesn't mean it was written for here.
Good point. Alas I sometimes find highly upvoted posts not that interesting, like this one. Almost as if there was some kind of bot, or if people upvote uninteresting stuff sometimes. Whichever best fits Occam's razor
dd is pretty standard if you know it. Just because it isn't a standard to you, doesn't mean it isn't for everyone.
There are a lot of commands I don't use regularly that I saw once, which appeared strange to me. There were different way to do what tey did. Yet I didn't feel compelled to write a salty blog post about it.