Honestly, some people could use living without a TV (or many parts of the internet)
Ain’t that the god damn truth!
Nobody tell her about daemons.
time.sleep() not found. Deamon exited. Child p_id=29 killed.
Damn, that child with a weird name got obliterated.
When you habe so many children that you don’t know any more names and start numbering them using PIDs
“Hacker folklore that pays homage to ‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke.”
—The Jargon File
Is that TV just a CentOS box running VLC‽
probably. this doesn’t surprise me one bit.
If you have a smart TV, it probably runs an ARM-architecture Linux or Android (which amounts to a bunch of extra stuff piled onto Linux) to drive the logic and ui to support connecting to the internet and downloading and updating streaming apps and other smart TV crap.
most of the time they’ll run some minimal stripped-down version of these operating systems to support only features needed for the TV and it’s functions. buildroot is an open source project that specializes in producing hyper slim Linux OS installation images for devices like these.
if I had to guess, they had a USB full of shows plugged in and the smart tv’s solution was to just boot up the linux version of VLC in a bare x session when the user hits play on “totally_not_pirated_smallville_s01e03.mkv” on their thumbdrive. not a terrible solution, honestly: VLC just plays anything.
The old kernel is because a lot of low level hardware has available drivers written for it that are intended to be loaded into old versions of the Linux kernel (at time of release perhaps) and are then just never updated lol, at least not for ARM. sometimes there are breaking changes with kernel apis and stuff as the kernel version increases over time, so the easier solution for someone trying to make a TV, over begging and/or paying the hardware developers to update their drivers, is to just run an old kernel version.
everything is a hack. nearly all these smart devices are just general-purpose computers with ancient (predictable, cheap) software and inescapable interfaces taped over the front, and a whole lot of digital duct tape on the back.
I wouldn’t really call this a hack, electronic devices would cost twice as much of every OEM had to come up with their own hardware, drivers, frontend etc. Besides, this allows hobbyists to play with their hardware much more easily
All those old school (former) linux devs used to play DnD back in the 80s, right? Hmm. Satanic panic 2.0?
I mean… sacrifice child is a whole new one to me! Clearly whoever programmed that in knew what they were doing.
Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?
/*
- If any of p’s children has a different mm and is eligible for kill,
- the one with the highest oom_badness() score is sacrificed for its
- parent. This attempts to lose the minimal amount of work done while
- still freeing memory. */
Nice. Imagine the lady in the post’s face when she learns that “oom badness” is how they decide which child to sacrifice.
What’s that from?
At this stage kernel 2.6 is ancient culture.
I love that she sees a screen of text she doesn’t understand, finds a few parts she does and freaks out, but turns out she doesn’t understand those either.
Wait till she learns about zombie children
CentOS is coming for your children!!!1
Translation: “HELP I JUST BOUGHT THIS THING OFF AMAZON THAT’S SUPPOSED TO GIVE ME FREE TV TO DISTRACT MY KIDS BUT NOW ITS SAYING THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND AND IM SCARED”
Also, please someone send her a L1ZY
I’m not even at the point of processing if this is satire or not. Is the context that killing a process is offensive? I mean I get ‘sacrifice child’, but ‘kill process’?
Kill, process, or sacrifice child
So is this the Linux version of Blu screen?
That would be an excellent band name.
Or a terrible name for a military commander.
Colonel Panic. Different spelling though.
He’s in General Error’s unit.