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I, personally, have spawned and killed many daemons.

• gostsamo 2y ago
  Linux made us all occultists.
  • lukan 2y ago
    I think developing and debugging complex systems, where most is a black box, does that in general https://www.xkcd.com/2259/ https://www.xkcd.com/2259/ Trying out the right magic invocation until something starts working again.
    • bigstrat2003 2y ago
      Yep, sometimes we are basically techpriests. Apply the sacred unguents and pray that the machine spirit calms down, cause that's all you can do.
      • lukan 2y ago
        It is going to be even more fun, once LLMs or alike are embedded in the pipelines by default ..
        • chefandy 2y ago
          ‘Have you had “the talk” with your llm daemons yet about peer-to-peer pressure?’
  • noelwelsh 2y ago
    The DnD -> Linux -> Occultist pipeline. The moral panic in the 1980s was actually right.
    • chefandy 2y ago
      Just sort of mix them all together. ::fails the attack roll:: 'Ok, sudo attack the beast with my mace.'
  • chefandy 2y ago
    Back when Linux (et al) was a bit more novel in enterprise environments, I certainly heard MCSEs and such refer to Linux administration black magic.