Hello guys, its your local dumbass here, I just wanted to say.. Today.. This morning... I was kinda acting like a dumbass.. You know.. Usual day for us dumbasses, and well.. I fist created a hello world C program and named it 'cat'.. It hadn't crossed my dumbass that cat already exists and that I'm root.. And that this is potentially a dumbass thing to do.. But anyways.. I moved the program to /usr/bin where there already existed the cat program.. Then Unbeknownst to myself.. I overwrote the original cat with the mv command.. Then to further embrace my dumbassness... I renamed the prgoram to dog.... (mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/dog).. Yeah.
And now.. Every fucking program asks for a missing cat, when there's a dog in place of it.. Only thing is.. This dog is retarded and can only print out hello world.. So.. Now most of the computer says hello world whenever I try doing anything..
My screen read.. [+] Available wireless devices: 1. Hello world 2.
after a few minutes I thought "hey.. why not just move the cat program from a good version of linux to the broken retarded dog one.. and OBVIOUSLY.. it would work.
lessons learned: 1. "ooooh.. that's why it's better to have a user instead of using ROOT for literally everything" 2. The original Ben 10 Series is the best, wtf is ben 10 reboot?
I have a question I probably already know the answer to..
Having a user and doing (mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/dog) would've given me a permission error right?
Is sudo /usr/bin/cat ... the same thing? If so.. then sudo still shouldn't exist?? OR.. does making a user give you your OWN version of cat that you can be a dumbass with???
How does unix protect the original cat? Is it by using unix through a user and NOT root? because sudo mv... is the same as being in root.. so.. it's not much of a protection mechanism is it??
The internet does not allow such "preciousness" i'm afraid.
Bentley Lopez
Oh.. well.. now my last reply doesn't make sense.. thought it was referring to something "non-innocent ( idon't fucking know)"..
It just...
"My Sides" is a colloquial phrase used to convey laughter on message boards or in comments, especially in response to a funny image, video or remark made by someone else
Carson Flores
Why does programmers love le funny normie memes so much? Do people on Jow Forums do it unironically?
Nolan Rodriguez
lol dis nigguh actually fell for the duckduckgo meme
find out which package in your distros repository has the cat program and force it to reinstall
Michael Jones
I never understood this. A person laughs so hard that their sides hurt, I get that. But how does that lead to them blowing up, and being launched into orbit?
Nicholas Nelson
>Having a user and doing (mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/dog) would've given me a permission error right? Yes.
>Is sudo /usr/bin/cat ... the same thing? Sort of.
>If so.. then sudo still shouldn't exist? Sometimes you have no choice but to perform an operation with elevated privileges, sudo does this while requiring you to confirm your action with a password, protecting it from accidental use.
>does making a user give you your OWN version of cat that you can be a dumbass with? Possible to do, but no, not by default.
Just explain it if you get it. No need to be rude. Didn't your mother ever teach you that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all?
Gabriel Gutierrez
what in the name of fuck is this bullshit
you know what, fuck it I'll bite.
>Having a user and doing (mv /usr/bin/cat /usr/bin/dog) would've given me a permission error right? as an ordinary user, yes
>Is sudo /usr/bin/cat ... the same thing? If so.. then sudo still shouldn't exist?? sudo gives you the power of root you can set up which users can be root, and even what they can run as root there's plenty of reason to be allowed to change what's in /usr/bin and other places full of system files
>How does unix protect the original cat? by putting it somewhere only writable by root since you had root permissions, you could do whatever to it
as an aside, to prevent doing this shit on accident again, use mv -i instead of just mv
Lincoln Kelly
Where do you think you are? Just go and ask your reddit bros about it.
>How does unix protect the original cat? Is it by using unix through a user and NOT root? Yes. >because sudo mv... is the same as being in root.. so.. it's not much of a protection mechanism is it?? "How does the CPU protect itself from melting, is it by shutting down when it overheats unless you overclock it? But you can still overclock it... so it's not much of a protection mechanism is it??" "How does the computer protect itself from being hacked, is it by requiring a login and password? But you can still reboot off a USB drive and fuck with the hard drive while logged in to the live boot... so it's not much of a protection mechanism is it??" "How does the computer protect itself from hardware damage, is it by having well designed hardware? But you can still smash it with a hammer... so it's not much of a protection mechanism is it??" Sorry, but no matter how much security you bake in, man inherently has power and control over his own property. There's no protection against user idiocy.
Asher Peterson
install gentoo
Brody Morales
Lurk moar faggot
Stop spoonfeeding
Carter Garcia
That's not spoonfeeding, if I had explained the whole "my sides" thing it would have been.
