Comment on Choosing violence
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months 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 10 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
That’s Frodo Baggins on the verge of death thou fool!
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I don’t recall. Just having fun. Be well!
Ziglin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would assume that was a kernel issue.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
I used to stick forks in the electrical outlets.
Now I post Linux memes.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That tracks.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I can’t believe what happened next