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Russian roulette [CommitStrip] (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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CommitStrip | website

Transcript7 panel comic

1: [2 guys, both in fur lined coats, one wearing a fur-lined hat, the other with crazy hair, sit in circular booth in a rundown bar. 2 empty shot glasses and a bottle are visible on the table.]

Hat: Stop it, you’re crazy! This isn’t you talking, it’s the vodka!

Hair: Leave it…

2: [The two men are sitting across from a third man in a similar fur-line coat and hat, but glasses and a beard. A laptop sits in front of the bearded man.]

Beard: It’s not a game for cowards…

3: [Hair pulls the laptop towards him. Hat looks worried]

Hair: Come on, gimme that and let’s get it over with!

4: [Hair has a crazy and excited look on his face]

Hair: Each one on his own prod server?

Beard: Each one on his own prod server.

5: [Close up of Hats finger clicking the touch pad]

6: [Close up of the sweat dripping down Hats face]

7: [A terminal is open on the laptop screen] Laptop reads: root@server:~# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “Lucky boy”;

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

needs —no-preserve-root

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 15 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And also a short delay before printing 'lucky boy' so you can't tell if it's deleting everything or if it's the built in delay.

[–] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 8 points 47 minutes ago

That's brilliant...and sick.

[–] charokol@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

The modulo devisor should reduce by one every time it’s run

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Can someone help and explain this to little old me?

[–] GargleBlaster@feddit.org 53 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

In my limited knowledge it randomly generates a number and if this number can be cleanly divided by 6 it deletes everything on the system (and the system itself). If not it prints 'lucky boy'.

So basically the nerd version of russian Roulette. But with higher stakes

[–] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 hours ago

Higher stakes

LOL 🤭 quiet, mafia, IT is talking!

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's a bash command that generates a random number. If that number divides by six with no remainder then it deletes everything on the server, if not it prints "lucky boy". "Prod" servers are production servers, the ones the actual business runs on, as opposed to test or dev servers which are often deleted and rebuilt as developers to see if things work or not.

This is Russian roulette for IT people to see if they destroy the running server or not

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 2 hours ago

generates a random number. If that number divides by six with no remainder

Meaning a 1 in 6 chance, just like playing traditional Russian roulette with a revolver

[–] tired_fedora@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

They're basically playing Russian Roulette with their servers. They condition a remove all command on a random numbers generator and pray. If it does not wipe the server, it spits out "Lucky Boy"

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

lol I disable this and root access first thing

[–] tal@lemmy.today 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

  1. I'd hope that one's production server is backed up.

  2. $ alias rm="echo Lucky boy"; clear

    "Okay, ready to play."

[–] alastel@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 hours ago

alias rm="echo Lucky boy"

That would print "Lucky boy -rf /" though, quite suspicious