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Brain: Open your eyes.

Person sleeping on bed: Permission denied.

Brain: Sudo open your eyes.

Person sleeping on bed: The brain is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I always wonder to whom this gets reported to

[–] [email protected] 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/838/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like Santas candy cane desktop.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

a little place i like to call /dev/null

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Real answer: it used to be common for UNIX daemons to send mail to root or to other users. This wasn't the same thing as email, because it didn't hit a network unless you set that up. But it ended up in the same mailboxes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Santa

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Linus Torvalds. He's making a list.