The name seems a little insensitive.
The world is cold and insensitive the majority of the time
Suicide Linux (2009)
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Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#32I distinctly remember a GCC patch that added `system("rm -Rf /")` on some undefined behavior conditions. But I can't find it right now.
Are you thinking of how early releases of GCC would (as an easter egg) run emacs, hack, or rogue upon encountering an unknown #pragma directive?
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#33I distinctly remember a GCC patch that added `system("rm -Rf /")` on some undefined behavior conditions. But I can't find it right now.
I've never heard of it doing rm -rf, but apparnetly it did try to launch nethack under certain unknown preprocessor conditions:
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#34The name seems a little insensitive.
"Unalive GNU/Linux"
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping into that conversation much easier.
This is well researched. See the Werther Effect. Casual, trivial, glamorized, or humorous framing behaves like contagion exposure.
The Werther Effect seems to be all about media reporting? All the reputable sources I could easily find suggest that talking about suicide casually does not inspire it.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#36> I suppose I should finally clear this up: The autocorrect functionality I originally described here was a feature of the first Linux systems I ever used, so I assumed it was how every Linux system worked by default. Since then I've come to understand that it's a completely optional extra doodad. What systems did this? I've never encountered one that I can recall.
Wasn't there an article on here a while ago that this "autocorrect" had a bug and was actually supposed to trigger only after several seconds of no user input, not immediately?
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#37The name seems a little insensitive.
I was honestly hoping it was a linux distro prepacked with euthanasia instructions tbh. But this is still good and funny.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#38Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#39I go to that website, it says "Blocked"