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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • It wasn’t too early, maybe 1997.

    I was like 12 or so and I had just installed Linux.

    I figured out, from the book I was working with, how to get my windows partition to automaticallyount at boot. Awesome!

    I had not been able to figure out how to start “x” though.

    So I rebooted into Windows, for on EFnet #linux, and asked around.

    Got a command, wrote it down on a slip of paper, and rebooted into Linux.

    I should mention, I also hadn’t figured out about privileges, or at least why you wouldn’t want to run around as root.

    Anyway, I started typing in the command that I wrote down: rm -rf /.

    I don’t have to tell you all, that is not the correct command. The correct command was startx.

    After I figured it was taking way too long, I decided to look up what the command does, and then immediately shut down the system.

    It was far too late.




















  • Funny you should mention that.

    My paternal grandparents were very religious, and my dad attended mass regularly as a kid and went to Catholic school.

    However, I don’t think he’s willingly set foot into a church except for funerals since I was born.

    My grandmother would drag me to church several times a week though.

    Didn’t stop my dad from threatening to baptize my kid behind my back when my first kid was a baby. I think it was said in jest, or maybe to troll me…but my oldest is 8 now and neither of my kids have been around my parents unsupervised. Reap what you sow.

    And the Church coveniently doesn’t recommend reading it.

    That’s their own fault. Should’ve left it in Latin. Or Aramaic.