Comment on Choosing violence
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month agoThis has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.
It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I…can’t tell what is happening here. Is he having an orgasm? Is he supposed to be a priest, or a slave?
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
That’s Frodo Baggins on the verge of death thou fool!
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t recall. Just having fun. Be well!
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I would assume that was a kernel issue.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
In this case it was a driver holding that thread captive and making an assumption about the hardware eventually responding to a request which never completes.
So yes indeed it was the kernel, and ideally the driver could be written better, but the reality is that’s probably easier said than done when the hardware can do weird things.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
THIS is your big “You won’t believe what happened to me…” story???
sigh
When I was 14, I took the power cord for the original PS1 and shaved the rubber off the end until metal prongs were sticking out. Then I noticed if the outlet end was plugged in, and you touched the metal prongs on the other end, you couldn’t drop it. It would electricute you, but it would also stick to your skin for 5-10 seconds as it electricuted you.
So being a 14 year old male, I did the only logical thing. I put it on my penis.
It was quite shocking!
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 month ago
I used to stick forks in the electrical outlets.
Now I post Linux memes.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That tracks.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I can’t believe what happened next