Spyke
lemmy.world

woke_mind_virus deleted rm -rf... wow this guy sure knows his UNIX!

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No see, he's saying the woke_mind_virus is protecting him! He can no longer accidentally run the rm command and erase his entire mind. It's 4d cheese or whatever to tell the woke they are actually correct and this right wing posturing is a plot /s

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Somehow he managed to add a new hostname to /etc/hosts, but then tries to undo it by rm'ing the hostname?

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Faridreply
lemmy.world

To be fair to Musk (🤢), he would need to significantly dumb down proper Linux commands for his target audience. So it's possible he wrote some pseudo command lines and sprinkled in the most known tech references that even his audience will sort of recognize.

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kbin.melroy.org

Or, as is most likely, he is in fact, a big fat poser with everything. Shit like this is like the "code" I used to pretend write on loose leaf paper in elementary school that was just computery-sounding gibberish.

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After his path of exile 2 bought account trying to pretend as a high level player but clearly having zero idea how to play.

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pawb.social

Days after exposing himself as a fake poser of a gamer, Elon has conveniently (again) reminded us he's also a fake poser of a programmer

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lemmy.ml

Anyone else besides me want a moratorium on musk spam? No one should have to see anything he tweets.

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I don't even have X, but everywhere I go there's an Elon's tweet

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Please.

If I wanted to read Musk, I'd follow him.

If I wanted to see someone's tweets all day, I'd be Twitter instead of Lemmy.

I use Lemmy to read Lemmy, not to be reading screenshots of Twitter in Lemmy.

Thanks.

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Well, maybe not a moratorium, but I certainly would appreciate some peace and quiet.

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lemmy.world

Is Elon trying to say he deleted his own brain because his behavior would prove that theory

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Cortreply
lemmy.world

I've also heard 127.0.0.1 referred to as Home, so maybe he kicked another kid out of his house?

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Obligatory: not mine just pulled from Google images. Looks like morning brew logo in the corner

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sh.itjust.works

He truly is an idiot’s concept of a genius.

No one who anctually understands Unix or IP networking would ever craft that as an explanation for this concept.

That said, it’s an excellent explanation of how a lobotomy helped him embrace his true self.

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lemmy.world

Now I want to see:

  • a genius'es concept of an idiot
  • an idiot's concept of an idiot
  • a genius'es concept of a genius
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overloadreply
sopuli.xyz
  1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
  2. the movie: Idiocracy
  3. lots of examples, let's go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman
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Swedneckreply
discuss.tchncs.de

i'd nominate Ramanujan as the geniuses' genius: he had basically no formal education on mathematics, and yet he solved problems that the rest of the world collectively couldn't crack.

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Ah true I haven't heard of him! Love to hear about autodidact geniuses.

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overloadreply
sopuli.xyz

I think I just wanted to mention arrested development lol. It being a smart, well-written show about very dumb people

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A genius wouldn’t post something this pointless and idiotic in the first place. If they felt inclined to, they would likely not think it worth the time.

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lemmy.world

sudo rm -fr - -no-preserve-root

The magic spell that removes the woke mind virus, but only if used on the main twitter server as a high level admin user with full access.

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It would remove the Latin language packas well because its specifying the --no-preserve-root flag.

Actually I'd worry that it might purge language all the way back to Indo-European, but if it means getting rid of French, its a risk I'm willing to take.

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lemmy.world

His understanding of bash is as good as his Path of Exile skills.

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Hupfreply
feddit.org

That's just inverse South African notation.

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Trace Route. The *NIX equivalent command is traceroute, Windows shortened it to tracert.

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lemmy.ca

He's saying the enemy is within and must be wiped out completely.

Recursively and forcefully remove virus at Localhost.

Just sent to a friend and I broke it down like this

The commands wouldn't work on Linux/Unix due to the format. But.. They don't need to if you're just sending a message.

127.0.0.1 means the local machine. The host.

rm is remove. -r is recursively. -f means use force if necessary.

The commands, when put together, would look something like this:

traceroute wokemindvirus (find the location of and path to the virus)

The virus has been located at localhost (internally)

rm -rf /127.0.0.1/wokemindvirus

Remove, forcefully and recursively until nothing is left, the woke virus, in the local host - USA.

In other words, the enemy within must be wiped out.

Tell me I'm crazy.

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It's such a stupid joke that I prefer to interpret it like this:

He discovered that he is the source of the woke mind virus, and then he forcefully lobotomized himself.

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Didn't the woke virus delete /usr/bin/rm ?

Although rm might be a builtin, I didnt check.

❯ which rm
/usr/bin/rm 

Ah, no, apparently it isn't.

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szmer.info

This is what that indian kid would write on facebook after his first programming course lesson, to show off career choice

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I think that kid made the youtube channel "Engineering Made Easy"

It's a channel about an Indian guy badly explaining physics in order to justify his spiritual beliefs, featuring the best of "Shit Roger Penrose absolutely did not say, not even when talking about Orch-OR"

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This is like someone who doesn’t speak English, finds a dictionary, and then puts random words together hoping to sound like they speak English.

He is such a fucking moron.

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feddit.nl

Nah he cosplayed as a goth once when he was a teenager. Other than that, he has always been a failed nerd.

Edit: apologies, that is what he is saying in the tweet, yes

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I mean, there was a period about 15 years ago when he seemed to be the only rich person actually talking about climate change, doing something that might make some difference (investing in an electric vehicle startup, and later a rooftop solar startup) and seemed to actually be concerned about it. I now question if that was just an act or not.

On the other hand there is the theory that he fell down the right wing social media pipeline during the pandemic and that's why he's seemed to have such a sudden shift on political party affiliation. I like that theory because I think it's kinda funny to imagine one of the richest men in the world being too cooped up and spending too long doomscrolling to the point that he became radicalized by social media algorithms

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If Elon can go fsck himself that would be great. I sense a systematic lack of integrity from him.

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The admin team here has decided to quarantine all musk spam to one community, so that people can easily block it, and won't have to read his takes.

Use [email protected] for now, or the musk spam communities elsewhere. In the future we can re-evaluate whether to keep any communities for rocket jesus at all.

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thelemmy.club

Scanning 104.244.42.129 for fascist_bullshit

fascist_bullshit found!

Adding host to block list.

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gameindustry.eu/ good site for tracker blocking etc in games

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lemmy.ml

This seems like it makes sense on at least 2 levels, either because he's saying he at some point had the 'woke mind virus' and deleted it, or more likely he's saying this is what people need to do to 'free' themselves of the 'woke mind virus'.

You don't have to endorse it to understand it. I don't really understand Hazel's confusion.

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lemmy.ca

The confusion is an affectation they're putting on because the execution of the joke is just so poor.

I especially love that he didn't say where he was running rm -rf and I like to believe it's from root, so he lobotomized himself.

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I especially love that he didn't say where he was running rm -rf and I like to believe it's from root

I assumed that's what he meant and is telling people to kill themselves.

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He is just person born in rich family that used social media to create image of some kind of engineering genius, when his actual "skill" was to have money, push engineers to work hard and knowing how to get money from the government.

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I think his school teachers, diagnosing him as retarded, were spot on.

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This reminds me of the old how to shoot yourself in the foot joke for unix, except in this case...

rm -rf * woke
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lemm.ee

Jokes on him. I'm a carrier of the Woke Mind Virus and there's nothing he can do about it.

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Nuh uh he’s gonna write a gui using Visual Basic to hack your IP address

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He's saying what everyone else already knows. He's infected and diseased

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"The surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson: where woke_mind_virus lives in my brain. [Announcer: "woke_mind_virus deleted."] Goodbye, woke_mind_virus."

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lemmy.world

Does each provider have their own? Most of the ones I’ve had your local network was 192.168.0.1, but my recent one is 10.0.0.1.

It’s all just modem access I’m guessing in the end and they can choose mostly what they want?

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lemmy.world

Ah on my end, both are the same companies IP provider and they are different modem manufacturers. Both were used to log into the modem to change settings.

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That’s good to know, I just didn’t know the context of the 127, and it’s not the same, so that good to know.

Cheers mate.

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No, 127.0.0.1 is the loop back, so it doesn't even leave the machine and doesn't need to be connected to any network.

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127.0.0.1 is a special IP address that loops back to the device itself.

For local area networks there are 3 groups of private IPv4 address spaces

192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255

Basically you can use any address range in any of those 3 ranges, ones in the 192.168.x.y block have been pretty common for home routers for a while.

Normally you can change the address ranges set in the router if there's a particular range you want to use.

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Loopback Addresses, Always your computer
127.x.x.x

Private IP Addresses, Computers on your local network
10.x.x.x
172.16.0.0 -172.31.255.255
192.168.x.x
169.254.x.x (link local, used if your network has no DHCP server)

Multicast, Addresses multiple computers on your local network
224.0.0.0 - 239.255.255.255

Broadcast, Addresses all computers on your local network
255.255.255.255

CGNAT Addresses, Computers on your same ISP/carrier
100.64.0.0 - 100.127.255.255
(Only applicable if your ISP/carrier uses CGNAT)

Public Internet Addresses
Most other IP addresses

Which block of private IPs your local network uses depends on how your router/DHCP server is configured. If you're using the standard router your ISP provided then whatever default settings on that will determine your local subnet.

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Those are non-routed IP blocks. 127.0.0.1 is the machine you’re on, the localhost.

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pretty sure he is saying the woke mind people found themselves and deleted themselves, that quote retweet makes no sense to me

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Well, it is a virus /s

Obviously it had spread to his mind from others so he was doing some antivirusing

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