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    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Wait, if my brain runs and uses Linux then…

    Oh god…

    ADHD is a zombie LLM process constantly spitting out vaguely related nonsense, draining your energy and processor cycles for nothing productive.

    It all makes sense now.

    [–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Nah, it's nothing that complicated, it's just a bash script

    while [ 0 -eq 0 ]
    do
            wall | head -c 16 /dev/random
            sleep 1
    done
    
    [–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    shouldn't it be head -c 16 /dev/random | wall

    yep that works a lot better. Mine did spit out a wall message, but only after the script hangs and has to be ctrl-D'ed. I figured I had tested enough for the internet joke and I shipped it to prod.

    [–] gnufuu@infosec.pub 3 points 5 days ago

    One day we'll be ready to switch to a stable repo

    [–] Shaper@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    Wait, who's processig the request???

    [–] sonofearth@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I don’t why but β€œThis incident will be reported” scares the shit out of me for some reason.πŸ˜‚

    [–] Shaper@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

    who are you reporting to? WHO ARE YOU REPORTING TO?!?

    [–] AmblerTube@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

    And it will go down in your permanent record!

    [–] khanh@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    average first run after installing debian

    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

    there is an ootion in the installer to enable sudo. so people just click next next next witgout reading?

    [–] Zacryon@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    What always triggers feelings of cosmic horror is the question: "Whom is this reported to?"

    [–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Santa Claus, you go on the naughty list

    [–] FUsername@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

    1000002949 Here's the corresponding xkcd.

    [–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 26 points 6 days ago

    in the files

    [–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 23 points 5 days ago

    Memory leak 🫠

    [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    goddamn I wish I could shut down my brain this way. mmmmph. genuine envy.

    [–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    Don't think rm -rf

    Don't think rm -rf

    Don't think rm -rf

    [–] Senseless@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    Wait.. what was I not supposed to think about? rm -rf

    drops dead while drooling

    whoopsie poopsie

    [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

    a break is a break tho. forreal.

    [–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Meditation is essentially a software patch that reduces the brain's tendency to DDoS itself.

    [–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    what I need is brain docker, where I could just spin down entire sets of functionality

    This is my reflection on my own experience with meditation, I have no other expertise on the subject.

    It's not not that. It doesn't completely prevent processes from starting up randomly, but it does make it easier and faster to shut them down gracefully. It's also helpful for understanding and adjusting system calls that keep restarting processes I no longer need running all the time.

    Started terminal-lly. Stuck now and got lots of VIM all night. Supposed to do something with colon. Directions unclear now just a q.