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Brain: Open your eyes.

Person sleeping on bed: Permission denied.

Brain: Sudo open your eyes.

Person sleeping on bed: The brain is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

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[–] semperpeppe@feddit.it 25 points 11 months ago (5 children)

I always wonder to whom this gets reported to

[–] elvith@feddit.de 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I like Santas candy cane desktop.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 11 months ago

a little place i like to call /dev/null

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Real answer: it used to be common for UNIX daemons to send mail to root or to other users. This wasn't the same thing as email, because it didn't hit a network unless you set that up. But it ended up in the same mailboxes.

[–] Galli@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Linus Torvalds. He's making a list.