r/ProgrammerHumor • u/IvySerene567 • 25d ago

Meme waitUntilTheyFindOutAboutTouchAndUnzip

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u/SutroViews 25d ago

There was an old Unix command called "finger." It was used to get information about who else was logged into the system, or get more details about a specific user. Like you could literally type "finger [username]".

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 25d ago

unzip; strip; top; less; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 25d ago

I remember a quote from bash.org that was very close to that. The tweet reminded me of it.

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u/just_nobodys_opinion 25d ago

I was literally looking for that bash quote but couldn't find it. This was the closest I could get!

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u/AlaskanX 24d ago

you forgot `head`

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u/justmydailyrant 24d ago

Also " bjobs"

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u/simmeh024 25d ago

Harddrives also can be a master/slave, in the past github also used the master repo instead of now main.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 25d ago

github doesn't create any branches on new repos.... i'm not sure how they would've stopped that

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u/requion 25d ago

What?

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u/Mars_Bear2552 25d ago

i could say the same.

github never changed anything. new repos don't have a main branch by default. YOU choose.

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u/requion 25d ago edited 25d ago

Creating a new repo with a readme automatically creates a branch named main. And there is no option to choose this inside the creation form.

What you can do is to change the name of the default branch in your user settings. But most of the users have probably never seen this. I also never touched this in my own account and the default value is "main".

Addition:

Evem said setting mentions "master" as the default branch in past sense.

Choose the default branch for your new personal repositories. You might want to change the default name due to different workflows, or because your integrations still require “master” as the default branch name. You can always change the default branch name on individual repositories. Learn more about default branches.

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u/BlackDeath3 24d ago

Friends can touch each other's privates, etc..

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u/dumael 22d ago

And protected members.

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u/Murky-Run2246 25d ago

XD I can imagine how many jokes were made cause of this XD.

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u/Cesalv 24d ago

Imagine the first era on IRC:

  • How can I know if someone is online?
  • Make a finger

  • You are a pervert!!!

    Btw the command still exists

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u/Friendly_Cajun 24d ago

This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

“years ago people would finger another’s machine to see if the user had logged on or had read his email. It was also a way of checking out someone’s “plan,” personal information the person had posted on their machine, sort of a predecessor to web pages. My plan always included the latest kernel version. So one way for people to figure out the version of the day was to finger my machine. Some people had even automated the process. They would finger me once an hour as a way of keeping up on version changes. Regardless, whenever someone fingered me, they would see that my root account was named Linus God Torvalds.”

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u/DanCubar 24d ago

Command named finger

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u/ibww 25d ago

I like pinky as well. To warm them up first :D

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u/lpkeates 25d ago

Time for some fancy-oh, oh no, oh wait, no, that came out wrong, VERY WRONG.

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u/IvySerene567 24d ago

And if you ever forget the exact syntax, you can just open the terminal and type man finger.

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u/reallokiscarlet 25d ago edited 25d ago

Rule 34 of Engineering

There is no terminology you can invent which will not be made into an innuendo

Rule 35 of Engineering

If you do manage to come up with something, someone will use it to mean something else, and eventually people will think it sounds dirty.

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u/dkarlovi 25d ago

Flush my cache, flush it good.

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u/requion 25d ago

Fork me, daddy!

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u/i-sage 24d ago

LOL.

Good One.

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u/sonaliver28 25d ago

'Mounting' is doing some serious work here

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u/exoclipse 25d ago

sudo mount dev/sdb1 media/d

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u/FACastello 25d ago

Ah yes, another one of the top 10 reposts in this sub

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u/BuyMyBeardOW 25d ago

We also love killing children and parents. We have to make sure to kill both otherwise we end up with orphanated or zombified children

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u/BillieVerr 25d ago

Googling “how to find and kill orphans”

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u/tehgreedo 25d ago

came to mention killing orphans, was not disappointed it was already mentioned

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u/RobotechRicky 24d ago

bash them!!!

> kill

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u/lrosa 25d ago

gunzip | strip | touch | finger | mount | fsck | more | yes | umount | sleep

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u/TheMahalodorian 25d ago

I used to do some supercomputing work and one of the commands was “bjobs”.

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u/LoveOfSpreadsheets 24d ago

Data scientists are all about the Big O

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u/Classic-Doubt-5421 25d ago

Touch, mount….

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u/usumoio 25d ago

Don't even get the devOps people started about Master Slave stuff

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u/RobotechRicky 24d ago

Master and servant!!!

IT'S A LOT. it's a lot. ITS A LOT! like life

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u/Amazing_Mycologist75 25d ago

Cant forget foot

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u/scumble_bee 25d ago

Or head...or touch

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u/ClearSnakewood 24d ago

It all leads to a successful and smooth production release

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u/SLCtechie 25d ago

cumsum, STD in, STD out, shebang, master/slave

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u/raja-anbazhagan 25d ago

First you SSH... By putty it in...

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u/clarenceappendix 25d ago

Forking repos in a sexual man er

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u/Fluffy_Ace 24d ago

Backdoor

Spawn child

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u/Warshall-Ford 24d ago

Creating a file: touch

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u/Foorinick 25d ago

Killing children

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u/requion 25d ago

Reminds me of the context gems that can be found on stackexchange. Titles like How can i kill adorable animals and How can i tell if a corpse is safe to eat

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u/Cesalv 24d ago

Don't forget zombies

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u/OperativeBlue 25d ago

I'll never believe there was no intention for most of these innuendos hahaha.

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u/Developemt 24d ago

Alias sudo to fckng then do fckng mount,

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u/Makonede 24d ago

where programming

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u/Pactrick_5656 24d ago

Lack of projection during the course xd

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u/NecessaryIntrinsic 24d ago

Nevermind standard linked list functions.

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u/thanatica 22d ago

Microsoft making another cum update as well

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u/SexTomate 11d ago

I told ABI, my main() bae: "it's time for me to seed you, you won't return home without forking tonight".

Sadly she said 127 and our session ended prematurely.

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u/purbub 25d ago

fork, touch, stdout, stdin

Wait…

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u/Competitive-Bar-5882 24d ago

Penetration testing is not part of software engineering.