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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Nobody tell her about daemons.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

time.sleep() not found. Deamon exited. Child p_id=29 killed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that child with a weird name got obliterated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

When you habe so many children that you don’t know any more names and start numbering them using PIDs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

“Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.”

—The Jargon File

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean... sacrifice child is a whole new one to me! Clearly whoever programmed that in knew what they were doing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah lol I'm familiar with "kill child" in a process management context, but I've never seen the word "sacrifice" come up. Is that a thing?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

/*

  • If any of p's children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
  • the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
  • parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
  • still freeing memory. */
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nice. Imagine the lady in the post's face when she learns that "oom badness" is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

What's that from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

From the source file oom_kill.c in the linux kernel. But it seems this has been reworded or changed since 2019. That's the commit that removed this.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this lady is joking, right? right??

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean she does have a t-shirt that says "~~white~~ american privilege"

hope that answers to your question

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not even sure I understand what that means. is it a diss on America for being too privileged?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I take it as patriotic america first -slogan. the woman is some patriotic nutjob who has her podcast called truth uncensored of something like that so it's pretty safe to assume she is one of those christian maga idiots who would definetly lose their shit for seeing "sacrifise child" in their tv

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I'm guessing it's like ironic and she thinks that white people are actually oppressed?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

CentOS is coming for your children!!!1

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

I love that she sees a screen of text she doesn't understand, finds a few parts she does and freaks out, but turns out she doesn't understand those either.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Wait till she learns about zombie children

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I hear they like turtles.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Is that TV just a CentOS box running VLC‽

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

probably. this doesn't surprise me one bit.

If you have a smart TV, it probably runs an ARM-architecture Linux or Android (which amounts to a bunch of extra stuff piled onto Linux) to drive the logic and ui to support connecting to the internet and downloading and updating streaming apps and other smart TV crap.

most of the time they'll run some minimal stripped-down version of these operating systems to support only features needed for the TV and it's functions. buildroot is an open source project that specializes in producing hyper slim Linux OS installation images for devices like these.

if I had to guess, they had a USB full of shows plugged in and the smart tv's solution was to just boot up the linux version of VLC in a bare x session when the user hits play on "totally_not_pirated_smallville_s01e03.mkv" on their thumbdrive. not a terrible solution, honestly: VLC just plays anything.

The old kernel is because a lot of low level hardware has available drivers written for it that are intended to be loaded into old versions of the Linux kernel (at time of release perhaps) and are then just never updated lol, at least not for ARM. sometimes there are breaking changes with kernel apis and stuff as the kernel version increases over time, so the easier solution for someone trying to make a TV, over begging and/or paying the hardware developers to update their drivers, is to just run an old kernel version.

everything is a hack. nearly all these smart devices are just general-purpose computers with ancient (predictable, cheap) software and inescapable interfaces taped over the front, and a whole lot of digital duct tape on the back.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't really call this a hack, electronic devices would cost twice as much of every OEM had to come up with their own hardware, drivers, frontend etc. Besides, this allows hobbyists to play with their hardware much more easily

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hack with benefits!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Running an absolutely ancient kernel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Monroe electronics now https://www.digitalalertsystems.com/products makes boxes for cable headends that handle the emergency alert systems. It runs redhat if I remember correctly. They have internet connections a couple of different radio receivers in them. Centos here though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm not even at the point of processing if this is satire or not. Is the context that killing a process is offensive? I mean I get 'sacrifice child', but 'kill process'?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Kill, process, or sacrifice child

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The process that's used to kill, or in short, the 'kill process'.

(though I like the other answer better)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

At this stage kernel 2.6 is ancient culture.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Kali Ma Linux

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

All those old school (former) linux devs used to play DnD back in the 80s, right? Hmm. Satanic panic 2.0?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

THE BELOW MESSAGE

No, it's "the message below" or "the following message". Pick a lane.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Stop being so prescriptive, people can talk however they like so far as they're understood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yeah. Why say lot word when few word do trick?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So the Welsh should never talk‽😡

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

yes the welsh and all other brits should stfu

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's a fine line between being understood and being misunderstood. They can't just talk however they like if they don't wanna increase the risk of the latter.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

"Below" is used as a stranded preposition in your case (the more generally accepted usage), whereas the original post uses it at an adjective. While usage of "below" as an adjective is not universal, it is still accepted by some dictionaries. I could only find the Webster English Dictionary as an example, so I suppose it's mostly exclusive to American English. So yes, your example is the more universal mode (as well as my personal preference), but American English generally accepts the above usage as proper grammar. (The sentence above, as well as this one, demonstrate the usage of "above," a relative locus, as both an adjective and a preposition in modern English).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It took me way too long to realize that all words and grammar were made up by some one at some point while they were being silly. Ever since then I came to the conclusion that people can speak however the fuck they want so long as I understand them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Pretty much. There is good sense in teaching a standard to ensure communication is possible, but language can and does evolve. We should allow the changes to happen and document them for future language nerds.

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