eightyonekilograms:

argumate:

barryogg:

I love that every sci-fi story about Confused Robots has been retroactively legitimised

In fairness, I bet plenty of humans have fucked themselves over via bash in this exact way.

I once read a story (I think literally on bash.org, or maybe Slashdot) about a sysadmin who was cursing Digium for naming their telephone exchange software Asterisk, saying that it fucked him over when trying to do phone support.

Sysadmin: First, run “rm dash rf slash bin slash asterisk”

User: OK…

Sysadmin: Next, run…

User [interrupting]: Wait, it isn’t finished yet

Sysadmin: ?

Sysadmin: !!!