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Experiences like this and a bit of imagination are why I try to be not-root as quickly as possible, and sometimes consciously physically remove my hands from th
by bch 6y ago
Experiences like this and a bit of imagination are why I try to be not-root as quickly as possible, and sometimes consciously physically remove my hands from the keyboard instead of having them “idling” at their home position.
- anonymousiam 6y agoThe thing about a fork-bomb is that you do not need to be root to spawn one. I never had root on Netcom, but still manged to take the whole thing off-line for about 15 minutes.
- bch 6y agoYea, I didn’t mean fork-bomb specifically, just “fuck ups” generally, or “critical sections” of operations as a human :)