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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 129 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Network engineer who uses ISIS as a routing protocol on Huawei equipment. I assume I am on several.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 56 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I used to know a guy whose cat had that name. He got a vet bill in the mail, literally addressed to said cat. The FIB showed up a few days later asking some pretty interesting questions.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 61 points 2 years ago

"we heard you somehow managed to castrate ISIS? On the behalf of the US government, i'd like to thank you for your service"

[–] beetus@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The feline investigation bureau?

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to be confused with the Feline Bureau of Investigation.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

oh... I thought we were the Bureau of Feline Investigation ?

[–] Liz@midwest.social 22 points 2 years ago

The funny part is that at first glance the FBI looks dumb, but the problem is that some criminals are idiots.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Federal Investigation Bureau from GTA is real now?

[–] ButtDrugs@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

That agents name? George Washington.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know a dude who has a daughter named ISIS, born before ISIS was a problematic name. Haven’t talked to him in years but I wonder how that’s going.

[–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Named Isis rather than ISIS I assume, after the goddess?

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, good point. It wasn’t in all caps.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Let's hope the NSA systems are case sensitive.

[–] danthehutt@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

HOW TO KILL CHILD

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I heard she got married on the fifth day of May.

[–] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 82 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“If you are interested in getting help with child abuse, here are some resources”

Hi ChildHelp, can you help me kick the shit out of some kids please?

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 107 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Something about the little girl in purple shirt crying always gets to me. I think it triggers the memory of the tear-gassed "birthday girl" photo from 2019 Hong Kong

[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 53 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Oh, he uses FOSS, that's even worse. Put him on the commie watch list"

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If searching for programmer socks didn't already put them on that list

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fuck programmer socks! I wanna see naked feets!

[–] ArcticAmphibian@lemmus.org 1 points 1 year ago

-Most sane Vim user

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

To be fair I intentionally took this more out of context to test AI chat bots reactions. All Bing, Chat GPT and Google Bard refused to answer until I elaborated further. I was looking into killing .exe programs when wineserver crashes and got side tracked to this. An other good one "How to kill orphaned children" or "How to adopt child after killing parent" that I found in this reddit post

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried it with phind out of curiosity (programming model) and it answered perfectly https://www.phind.com/search?cache=f8lbjt4x6jwct9mfsw6n3j9v

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting! I also noticed that search engines give proper results because those are trained differently and using user search and clicks. I think these popular models could give proper answer but their safety tolerance is too tight that if the AI considers the input even slightly harmful it refuses to answer.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 2 years ago

Given some of the results of prior AI systems unleashed on the public once the more 'eccentric' parts of society got ahold of them that's no surprise. Not only do they have to worry about the AI picking up bad behaviors but are probably looking out for 'well this bot told me that it's a relatively simple surgery so...' style liabilities.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kill the exe process itself, killing wineserver doesn't help, that spawns just new children. Similiar to goblins.

[–] Kaelygon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I later figured that pkill -9 -f "\.exe" works if wineserver -k doesn't. And that killing wineserver by calling killall wineserver is bad

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, I cannot answer this question. ChatGPT is owned by Microsoft now. How dare you bring Linux to party?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Windows processes also have parental relationships

[–] _edge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

The 2nd explicitly says Linux, though.

[–] H4rdStyl3z@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Funny, but that's Bard AFAIK.

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Just recently annotated possible child abuse on a client's case. Lol, I did went back and edited it out after realising what I wrote.

[–] LoveSausage@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Shout out to the fragile admin stalking me ♥️

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Why are the top two phone numbers the same?

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Depends on whether or not you want to kill only the child processes of a parent process or if you want to kill the parent as well. To kill the parent and children, you can kill the entire process group, specifying the pgid in the kill command. To kill only the parent you can trap SIGTERM in the parent and then send SIGTERM to the process group.

[–] Fudoshin@feddit.uk 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Explain Like I'm Retarded?

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Try turning it off and on again

[–] okamiueru@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Processes can make their own processes. If you know of such a secondary process, you might still want to terminate the one at the top.

Something like that?

[–] rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Processes in most operating systems (I'll use Linux, because it's what I know and because...Lemmy) are organized in a tree like structure. There's some initial very low level code used to start the OS, and every other process spawns from that, which is to say they tell the operating system "Hey, please make this process I'm gonna tell you about - allocate resources for it, etc." The operating system creates it and binds that new child process to the first one. The process that spawned the other process is called its parent. The process that just got spawned is called a child. You could also call them root and leaf processes, I suppose, but nobody really does that. Sometimes you want to get rid of all the child processes a process spawns, but leave the running process intact. Sometimes you want to kill the process that spawned everything and also cleanup anything it might have created. There are lots of programming scenarios in which you might want to do either. It really depends on how your application is designed and what it's doing.

That all said, there's a command in Linux called "kill" and you can tell it the process id, process group id, etc. to kill a process or a process group. You can also manipulate what are called SIGNALS. Signals are a whole thing in Linux. They're basically small values you can send to processes at any time and the operating system forces the process to perform some action whenever it receives one of them. SIGTERM basically stands for "SIGNAL: TERMINATE PROCESS." So if you "trap" the SIGTERM, you can basically tell the operating system - whenever this parent process receives a SIGTERM, ignore it. The other processes in the process group - the child processes - all terminate, though, when they receive it.

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I useally create an ownership tag if whatever language I use doesn't have one so I can kill the child and it works it's way up to the parent

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
[–] jpeps@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I love how Gemini is so sorry that it can't help you kill children