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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 273 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I laughed and my partner ask why. I told her it’s some really nerdy humor. She was fine not hearing the joke, but I loosely explained it anyway. She humored me anyway. She’s a good woman.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

God my wife would just stare at me and then go on with her previous conversation.

[–] victron@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My wife would just kiss me so I stfu

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[–] dot20@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 30 points 1 year ago

My boyfriend is completely technically illiterate haha. But he's such a good boy otherwise

[–] Moc@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I too think your partner is a good woman

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I don't understand this partner thing.

Idk why, it just bothers me to hear someone say that instead of girl/boyfriend or Significant Other.

It just sounds so damn clinical.

That said, I also choose this person's partner.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To me, partner seems so much less clinical than "significant other".

Partner is good because it says nothing about gender, which is good if your partner does not conform to a gender binary, but also just if you don't want to reveal their gender either to prevent people being weirdos about it—like they often can online, especially if you say it's your "girlfriend"—or to protect yourself if, for example, you're in a same-sex relationship. But it also says nothing too specific about the status of your relationship. Are they your girlfriend? Fiancée? Wife? Something less conventional? If it's not important to the story, why not leave that detail out?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a partner when I opened a computer shop back in the day. Closest I've come to having sex with him was the time I saw his wife topless through the window.

Significant Other is much more specific.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

It's also much weirder sounding. You know what sort of partner they mean from context (same as you know if someone means girlfriend girlfriend or a friend that is a girl)

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Significant other checks all those boxes as well

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[–] Moc@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My fiancé asked me to start calling her partner because she was sick of being called girlfriend after 8 years

[–] Deebster@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

When you get married you can call her your ex-girlfriend

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because she's a woman and not a girl? (don't shoot me, im not english native. But Partnerin is the same)

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

In English we use girlfriend and boyfriend regardless of age.

It's a weird quirk, but it's a quirky language.

[–] scubbo@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Personally I (a straight person) use it in an attempt to normalize the term, so that people who want to conceal the gender of their partner have plausible deniability. If all straight people say "girlfriend/boyfriend", then anyone saying "partner" is outed as "a non-straight person trying to conceal the fact".

EDIT: but also, it connotes a deeper level of trust, support, intimacy, etc. A "girlfriend" is some chick I fool around and have some fun with; a "partner" is someone with whom I'm building a life together.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'm bi, but my appearance is pretty queer coded such that cis-het people tend to read me as "unclear gay or just tech-nerd punk". I've found that when I use the word partner, it can throw people off because they're clearly fishing for my partner's gender in a "I can't tell whether this person is straight or gay" way. Most of the people I've dated have been men, but I do like the chaos energy of the confusion

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I understand the gender thing that is why i added significant other in there

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some old nuts don't like to hear that I've been living with my girlfriend for years.

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[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

She's literally the person in this meme

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Gotta keep that one around

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[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like that guy that posted an example Bitcoin miner on GitHub, then a bunch of script kiddies forgot to change his wallet info for their own before deploying... He made a good chunk of change by doing nothing malicious.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago
[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.

[–] excel@lemmy.megumin.org 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?

[–] Revolutionary_Pi@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

He said the thing!

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Packagers job to make it fit their distro, innit?

[–] GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a package maintainer, it's a lot of fun sometimes!

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I bet, both ironically and genuinely, depending on the cade. Flatpak must feel like a godsend to a lot of people haha

[–] GentooPhysicist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've actually never used flatpak, I still prefer distro-specific package managers

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Flatpak is really nice imo. You can have stable distro with up-to-date apps. And sandboxing for proprietary stuff, which is really nice.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Username checks out

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I think it was a fun post about what we go through sometimes just to get X or Y working. It was quite clever.

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[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago
[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs

[–] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Scammers these days lack basic courtesy 🤦‍♂️

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[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 53 points 1 year ago

Should've written the malware in Go, smh

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago

A system bestowed upon us by gods.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 27 points 1 year ago

I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] chinpokomon@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Even if it were inspired, it is significantly different the way it's written. I've hit these same challenges before, so I'm more inclined to think it is independent discovery.

[–] LogarithmicCamel@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

The newer one is a lot funnier though.

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 23 points 1 year ago

Sorry, folks. Using cmalw-lib is now deprecated.

Cool kids are using systemd-malwd

[–] ram@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This reminds me of the old linux hater's blog post "At least we don't have any viruses".

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That certainly was a blog with many emotions. Coming at this with no context, it looks like the kind of content that would be beautiful satire, except it's probably not.

[–] ram@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Linux Hater's Blog was half satire and half honest criticism.

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like the prediction about the web panned out...

[–] lemmy@lemmy.stonansh.org 10 points 1 year ago

i laughed so hard 😂 😂 😂

[–] Cwilliams@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Text version:

Downloaded a virus for Linux lately and unpacked it. Tried to run it as root, didn't work. Googled for 2 hours, found out that instead of /usr/local/bin the virus unpacked to /usr/bin for which the user malware doesn't have any write permissions, therefore the virus couldn't create a process file. Found patched .configure and .make files on some Chinese forum, recompiled and rerun it. The virus said it needs the library cmalw-lib-2.0.Turns out cmalw-lib-2.0 is shipped with CentOS but not with Ubuntu. Googled for hours again and found an instruction to build a.deb package from source. The virus finally started, wrote some logs, made a core dump and crashed. After 1 hour of going through the logs I discovered the virus assumed it was running on ext4 and called into its disk encryption API. Under btrfs this API is deprecated. The kernel noticed and made this partition read-only

Opened the sources, grep'ed the Bitcoin wallet and sent $5 out of pity.

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