Don't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...

[greencoder@functional.cafe]

@davidrevoy "Your room is too complicated to clean up. Let me erase it and start over. Done!"

[dgouttegattat@social.incenp.org]

@davidrevoy Oh my!

I initially read the comic without giving too much thought about the incantation, but then I thought, “hum, I wonder if there’s a meaning in it?”, looked at it for a second…

“Wait, he didn’t…” (read the incantation out loud) “oh yes he did! ”

Thanks for the laugh!

(On a more serious note, the outcome depicted in this comic could have been avoided if the parrot had been provided with some cat litter and a banana. Cat litter automatically enables --preserve-root, and bananas cause the filesystem to be mounted in read-only mode.)

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@tehrealgh5tbusters @davidrevoy, hah, nobody; that's going in more or less precisely the opposite direction, giving permissions to do things to avianIntelligence rather than giving it permissions to do things to, well, local reality.

sudo chown root avianIntelligence
sudo chmod g+s avianIntelligence

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@CppGuy @davidrevoy @nekoplanet, I read the first and third words in it as having three syllables then I saw the “rm -rf /” comment and thought “oh, two syllables?” – it's definitely not immediately obvious because of that.

Pratchett's writing of the Disorganiser telling the time, e.g. “9 eh em”: to me, “eh” sounds like “e” in “tell” and very unlike the name of “a”, which I'd describe as “ay” (as in “take”). If he'd written “9 ay em” (but not “9 ayem”), I'd have understood it immediately.

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@libreinator @davidrevoy Only for GNU rm, unless other implementations have added it. I guess this detail means GNU rm is not compatible with the spec.

[bicycletting@mastodon.ie]

@davidrevoy yup, things can **always** get worse

[njsg@mementomori.social]

@davidrevoy @nekoplanet Oh it was noticed. It made my day! Thanks!

[artnoir@musicians.today]

@davidrevoy
Gothic Sorceress doesn't seem to learn. Still, I have a crush on her.

[pentup@mastodon.art]

@davidrevoy I'm sure there's stiff competition, but that's gotta be in the running for the nerdiest spell ever cast.

[dpnash@c.im]

@pentup @davidrevoy

Definitely pretty nerdy, but if you want an ultra-nerdy spell *sequence*, log your keystrokes and do something non-trivial in vim. Heck, just *getting out* of The Vim Zone is pretty good (“escape colon double-you queue enter!”).

[rhelune@todon.eu]

@pantaRhei @positivedinosaur @davidrevoy

rm -rf / clutter

"It is a good practice to add spaces for increased readability"

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@davidrevoy but in reality it was even worse, just a place if rubble and SHE had to clean up her self after all

[moss_the_texie@rheinneckar.social]

@positivedinosaur
Well, they are, aren’t they?
Programs are poetry for computers, so …

@davidrevoy

[larsmb@mastodon.online]

@davidrevoy I mean, that looks like a deluxe camping site. Even an actual and clean toilet!

[voxel@infosec.space]

@davidrevoy I wonder what the magical words might refer to

[uriel@x.keinpfusch.net]

@davidrevoy this is not Avian Intelligence, this is Agentic Avian.

[stem@framapiaf.org]

@davidrevoy L'incantation censée tout supprimer a quand même laissé le carrelage et la cuvette.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy @dside @nekoplanet absolute genius! (and I also missed it the first time I read the comic)

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@_elena @davidrevoy @dside @nekoplanet Same. Well done!

[nekoplanet@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy it got me for a moment as I reverse the options (I remember better that way as "one should be careful when removing France" )