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7 panel comic

1: [2 guys, both in fur lined coats, one wearing a fur-lined hat, the other with crazy hair, sit in circular booth in a rundown bar. 2 empty shot glasses and a bottle are visible on the table.]

Hat: Stop it, you’re crazy! This isn’t you talking, it’s the vodka!

Hair: Leave it…

2: [The two men are sitting across from a third man in a similar fur-line coat and hat, but glasses and a beard. A laptop sits in front of the bearded man.]

Beard: It’s not a game for cowards…

3: [Hair pulls the laptop towards him. Hat looks worried]

Hair: Come on, gimme that and let’s get it over with!

4: [Hair has a crazy and excited look on his face]

Hair: Each one on his own prod server?

Beard: Each one on his own prod server.

5: [Close up of Hats finger clicking the touch pad]

6: [Close up of the sweat dripping down Hats face]

7: [A terminal is open on the laptop screen] Laptop reads: root@server:~# [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “Lucky boy”;

  • GargleBlaster@feddit.org
    115·
    22 hours ago

    In my limited knowledge it randomly generates a number and if this number can be cleanly divided by 6 it deletes everything on the system (and the system itself). If not it prints ‘lucky boy’.

    So basically the nerd version of russian Roulette. But with higher stakes

    • Albbi@piefed.caEnglish
      30·
      17 hours ago

      But with higher stakes

      I see you haven’t been converted to believe in the afterlife. Restoring from backup.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        17 hours ago

        If the backup is on the same device, it’s not a backup, and if you’ve not tested it on a clean machine, it’s not a backup.

        • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          13 hours ago

          scuz me ill just grab this timeshift thumbdrive for this opportunity.

          …amateurs.

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          Also, if you’re not willing to actually use it to restore from backup, it’s not a backup. I remember once I fucked up surgery on the prod db (we didn’t have a testing db…) and was like, ok well at least we can just try again.

          Boss man was like “no! We can’t restore from backup, people will lose 1 hour of their work!!!” I spent 7 days writing a script to surgically fix my surgery instead. I had to fudge and guess some of the data but wcyd