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

[joel@gts.tumfatig.net]

@davidrevoy reminds me of Bedazzled (2000): I never tricked you. I gave you exactly what you wished for.

[ddnnacheta@mastodon.social]

@zalasur @davidrevoy

Same. I was wondering why the spell didn't look like made-up words based on real words, so I pronounced it, and then I was like... Ohhh... 🤭

[sam4000@troet.cafe]

@davidrevoy

It's always these inexperienced people. Somewhere in the 1,000-page manual, there's bound to be a hidden note for this case: "Never let your AI run autonomously without AI.md attached. In this rule file, you write down fixed principles that your AI must adhere to."

This file may contain something like: Before each action, assess whether this action has potentially harmful consequences. Only carry out the action if two independent checks have not predicted any harmful consequences

[detail020@mastodon.social]

@davidrevoy Is the bird named openclaw?

[ronflaix@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidrevoy bravo. The magic spell, just bravo.

[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