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Well I haven't been on Facebook in about a decade, it's nice to know I'm a cyber security threat.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 63 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Must make it hard for their infrastructure team to discuss work. All of Facebook runs on Linux.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This particular point really gets to me. It's almost as if Facebook only wants consumers, no workers. I can't help but notice that the CEO of Microsoft and Facebook had a seat at the inauguration, but not the CEO of linux.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Linus Linux wasn't invited.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

No "almost". Employees are expensive.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I didn't know that (although it makes sense). That's pretty damn funny.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thinking more on this...

I guess you could say...

They're America's Arch enemy.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 9 points 3 weeks ago

YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Good for them. You never know when one of these terrorists is going to go into a building and rm it... or even rm -r the world.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Let the terrorists learn Linux, and it won't be too long before everyone is making sandwiches for them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but what happens if one of them gets close enough to the President to chmod?!

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just one second there! The President's executive order clearly states that ACLs are fixed when processes are spawned, we can no longer just chmod the sticky bit whenever we want to....

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, no regular chmod, but what if these violent extremists decide to sudo chmod -R 777 the Constitution?!

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm more concerned about chown. If someone figures out how to chown the Constitution, we're fucked!

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 2 points 3 weeks ago

This comic is unrealistic. It didn’t ask for the Root password.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

or even rm -r the world

Just don't tell them about -f.

[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

And definitely don't mention the

dd -if /dev/urandom -of /dev/sda

I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it...

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeh - hyphen are superfluous.

I'm old... Reckon I have been secretly doing the dd on my own head... Or too much powershell in the day job.

Eta: the hyphens are there to stop the unwise copypastaing the code and trashing their system - that's my other excuse and I am sticking to it!

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Jokes on you, there's no /dev/sd* on my system anymore.

Just /dev/nvme* and /dev/mmcblk*

Garbage text follows, I got carried away way too much. No need to keep reading. I mean, no need to even... let's not write a book here.

And sometimes /dev/sr* because I like mechanical storage devices. If there's enough time, I'll even burn a DVD and boot that rather than use Ventoy. I like the sound and extra work - putting it on the spindle, burning, verifying, marking the disc, waiting minutes for the boot-up and having enough time to read the boot messages. Some DVDs/CDs even had really nice smell, but I don't know how to identify those.

Time wasting, unnecessary? Yes, but I like the process.
Same reason why I pay for Mullvad in cash.
Print envelope, print payment token, put the cash and token in, close, choose postage stamps to use, wet them with a fine brush (I WILL NOT LICK THEM, YUCK) and stick them on. Then carry it to mailbox and wait for the time to be added. This is slow, expensive and tedious, but I like it. Oh, and I get to see many different postage stamps.

Today I received more I ordered, and holy shit!!! I got some special unique ones! COVID-19 stamp with 3D effects that can be felt with finger, heat embossed stamp of a not so good former president (but the stamp is only of its kind) and a fucking lenticular soccer-themed stamp (moving image based on angle of viewing) and more!
My reason for choosing Mullvad... and I fucking got carried away so damn much. Aaaaaaaaaaa...

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Why tf y'all casting spells over here?

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well linux is kinda evil because it runs facebooks servers...

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not sure, I have the same question. Just searched for Devil Tux Linux and a lot of BSD stuff also came up

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

Save us Michaelsoft Binbows!

[–] CrunkBy@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I tried this yesterday, I didn't run into any problems or FB telling me to remove the posts. So I'm a little lost on whom or what this is effecting.

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Real threats are :
Facebook, instagram, twiXtter, mic$soff_winDoze, etc ...

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m guessing facebook’s servers must be running on… windows? 🙄🙄🙄🙄

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Good remark ... i would believe the other user commenting under this very post that, ironically, they are running on Linux 😁