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[-] Buffman@lemmy.world 137 points 6 days ago

unzip, strip, top, less, touch, finger, grep, mount, fsck, more, yes, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount, sleep.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 40 points 6 days ago
[-] lena@gregtech.eu 57 points 6 days ago

Like sex, an operating system is better when it's free

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 19 points 6 days ago

I changed the $ in bash to § because fuck capitalism, keep your currency out of my free software

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 16 points 6 days ago

That's the currency in The Sims...

[-] dry_water@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

How will you escape $var usage in scripts though :P

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

I've... never had to do that. What does it do?

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[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago
[-] Barrymore@sh.itjust.works 30 points 6 days ago

I'm gonna tie you too the radiator, and grep you in the mouth for decades, and decades, and decades!

[-] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

To the radiator. It’s not also.

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

The Hammurderer is quickly becoming regarded as the worst-received advertising mascot since Kool-Aid’s 1989 discontinuation of “The Grapist,” a huge purple monster who sodomizes thirsty children.

The Onion, March 2002

[-] Buffman@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Sounds pretty close to grope or grab.

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[-] psilotop@lemmy.world 59 points 6 days ago
[-] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 69 points 6 days ago

Don't forget all the master/slave terminology

[-] afk_strats@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

Tbf, we're trying to get away from that one

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 16 points 6 days ago

Has there been “slave” anywhere for a while? The last time I can think is PATA, which is ancient by now.

It seems like most (all?) uses of “master” these days are in the sense of a “master copy”, which doesn’t really have a “master/slave” dynamic to it.

[-] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I hear "master" all the time, usually replaced with "main" or "parent". I NEVER hear "slave" unless im in extremely old server bios. It shocked me the first time i saw it, which was around 2017

[-] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Yep, gotta work with that on a daily basis because its in the protocol I have to work with.

[-] aburrito@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 days ago

And I’m so glad, and my boomer coworkers still complain

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 days ago

I don't see the issue but I find Dom/Sub better anyway.

[-] libewa@feddit.org 10 points 6 days ago

USB-OTG should just have been named USB Power Bottom. That makes USB-Type-C the embodiment of a switch.

[-] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 13 points 6 days ago

Yeah, I've heard. I've always associated the terms with dom/sub play, not slavery.

I get the reasoning as to why, but it seems odd to me that the IT terms were fixated on, but not the engineering terms; "master" and "slave" are still the accepted terms in the context of hydraulic systems, for example.

It's also generally accepted that "retard" and "retarded" are generally acceptable terms when used in an engineering context. If we can accept that some terms are accepted in the a technical context, it seems inconsistent not to apply the same thinking to IT terminology.

Just more stuff to keep us bickering with each other so we don't look up and realize where all the real problems are coming from, imo.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago

I use main instead of master on git, but what's the substitute to slave? Especially in master/slave setups like you have 1 processor controlling a bunch of measuring equipment for example.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 6 days ago

I've seen controller/worker which seems pretty descriptive

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 days ago

Manager/wageslave 😁😌😒

It's not easy.

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[-] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 days ago

Or the process terminology: "How to kill parent?" "How to spawn child?" "How to terminate zombie child?" Kinda forked if you ask me.

[-] Carrot@lemmy.today 17 points 6 days ago

My worst search was "How to kill orphaned child" I didn't even think about how it sounded until I saw it typed out in the search box lol

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I think the go-to option is an elaborate death trap that will prove to be easily escapable in the next episode.

[-] libewa@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

If the parent was waiting on the child, it is notified of the exit status and the child dies immediately. ~ man exit(3)

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[-] RedStrider@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

"ffmpeg" 🤨

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago
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[-] lena@gregtech.eu 22 points 6 days ago
[-] decolo@piefed.social 20 points 6 days ago

man finger

touch $it; nice -n 1 cat; fsck; shutdown

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[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 20 points 6 days ago

It's not, trust me. Now football, that is horny. Tight end, going deep, hand off.

[-] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 days ago

I just put my network card into promiscuous mode

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago

Look who coined the terms. Like the Silicon Valley stoners/hippies who came up with bit, byte, and nibble.

[-] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

I prefer the spelling "nybble"

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[-] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 15 points 6 days ago

"Ey gurl, don't act like you ain't see my pull request. Lemme deep scan dem packets."

[-] rekabis@programming.dev 12 points 6 days ago

They forgot master/slave in version control systems.

[-] gastroglizzy@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago

You used to have master and slave processes too until it was changed to parent and child

Always with all the questions. You want in or not?

[-] onionsinmypores@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

It's the man-in-the-Middle.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I like how the most prominent part of the screenshot is the person explaining the joke in an unfunny way

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