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epistasis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Whenever I see an unexplained command I don't understand from a random internet forum, I hop onto the production server and run it, just in case it might boost performance. Wouldn't want to miss out on that.

Been doing it since I was 12. It taught me all about the ins and outs of `rm`.

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jimt1234 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sounds like me back in the early 80s when I used to war dial, and people used to share "active" prefixes. I learned all about the 911 prefix when I set my dialer and went to sleep. About 20 minutes later the cops were banging on my front door. True story; I was in 6th grade, got arrested for it.

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deepriverfish 4 hours ago | parent [-]

wow did you get a record? this is some Hackers(1995) vibe stuff

	▲	jimt1234 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I got taken to juvenile hall, put in a holding area with kids that had stolen cars and stabbed other kids in fights. The funny thing is all these "bad kids" were really cool; we talked about video games (Donkey Kong!). I remember one kid got into a fight with his football coach and broke both the coach's legs. He was a big kid, looked like a grown man. He was pretty much in charge of the holding area. But he was cool as hell, cracked jokes with me. I actually kinda enjoyed the holding area. Anyway, the officials thought I had just called 911 over and over, like to play a prank. They wouldn't hear anything about my computer or whatever (it was the early 80s). They were pissed. I was kept in the holding area for a few hours, then they let me go home. I was ordered to a bunch of community service, cleaning the parking lots of local parks, stuff like that.

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prerok 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me of that story from an IRC channel:

A: I have a program that will format your hard drive. I just need your IP.

B: Ok, it's 127.0.0.1

A: Ahahaha, it 56% now! Lol.

A left the chat. Connection reset by peer.

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Someone1234 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A work-around to install on unsupported hardware which both works, but is unsupported and could break during a feature Windows Update.

	▲	bobsterlobster 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At this point I'd say it's more of a "would" than a "could"

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bunderbunder 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A clever way to maximize the chances that your computer gets bricked on a future Patch Tuesday.

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jama211 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s really not

	▲	bunderbunder 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Some of the checks are around CPU features that they don’t currently use but may use in the future. And CPUs don’t typically respond super gracefully to being asked to execute instructions they don’t understand.