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It's a Unix system! Elon knows this! (lemmy.ml)

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[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 148 points 1 month ago

thats not how rm -rf works

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 99 points 1 month ago

Not to diminish the fact that that's not how rm works, but that's also not how anything else in his tweet works either.

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago

I only care about the rm part

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 24 points 1 month ago

Yeah that command wouldn't run. Which means Elon still has the woke mind virus.

That's probably why he told everyone to take the red pill. The red pill is estrogen.

...ohhhhhh, so that's how he's going to create those genetically engineered catgirls! He meant epigenetic changes caused by estrogen!

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

But estrogen pills are blue yo

Trust me I know

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 16 points 1 month ago

This is what they looked like in the 90s

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

Damn, so both pills are estrogen!

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[-] psud@aussie.zone 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah he needs a file or directory list after a space after the f

Traditional is /*

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Just / would work but --no-preserve-root would kick it up a notch

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 107 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's just another case of Musk trying to sound smart but instead ends up proving that he doesn't even have a basic working understanding on the subject.

I guess this time the only difference is that it doesn't look like he paid an actually competent person to help him with it.

[-] bamboo 63 points 1 month ago

This might be giving him too much credit, but I think what he's trying to say is that he had the woke_mind_virus and deleted it from his mind? They've all co-opted the term red pill from the Matrix (widely seen as a trans allegory) and are using it to justify their unpopular actions because they're now free of having to be "woke" and can oppress those who are marginalized.

Obligatory Fuck Elon:

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Fuck thats some good shit. It will never cease to amaze me how every piece of pop culture they touch brings the creators out swinging.

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

I'm actually shocked Elon hasn't offered to impregnate her. Either it's an oversight, or he HAS and we just don't know about it.

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago

Ivanka Trump is trans confirmed. She got those boobs from the red estrogen pill.

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[-] lost_tortie@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

Please do notice that he replied to himself a month after the fact. He was cooking that up for an entire month 😹

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Without even realizing that rm -rf works on posix filesystems which are not directly exposed at osi layer 3.

This is the brilliant scientific mind that wants to take humanity to mars. 🙄

[-] takeheart@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! 😡

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[-] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 15 points 1 month ago

No, this is the rich, entitled asshole who wants to severely underpay brilliant scientific minds to take humanity to Mars.

[-] Mim@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 month ago

And still couldn't figure out how it works.
What a pathetic loser 😹

[-] minyakcurry@monyet.cc 27 points 1 month ago

It just took a month to connect to his own brain.

[-] RedSeries 77 points 1 month ago

This is a freshman CS/IT major's attempt at humor. Most of us learn and grow out of it and/or get the memes right, but Elon isn't smart and isn't actually capable of understanding how stupid this looks

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No IT major would fuck the syntax like that, this is a script kiddie hooting through a mouthful of cheetos

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Musk has no teal programming credentials to speak of I thought. His degree(s) are physics and economics.

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[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 64 points 1 month ago

Sounds like Muskrat can't remove the virus it as it deleted the RM command.

[-] noride@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago

GASP the virus is in the user!

[-] kittenzrulz123 22 points 1 month ago

sudo rm -rf elonmusk

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[-] shirro@aussie.zone 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was a huge SpaceX fan from the early days so watched a lot of Musks presentations and interviews and noticed a lot of repetition and always felt he was strongly working from talking points combined with a reasonably good high level understanding of the topic.

He didn't work as well off script and seemed to have stunted emotional development, not unlike a lot of internet age manboys raised on memes, video games and porn. It is difficult to reconcile his behaviour with an adult, father and manager of people and money. I suspect he has some seriously competent peiple around him like Shotwell who cover for his fuck ups.

IMO he probably is the kind of guy who can soak up stuff around him, turn it into a set of talking points and repeat it with the appearance of expertise. I think he may have had some cognitive decline due to age and lifestyle but I think he was a pretty competent bullshit artist in the past.

I am not an expert at anything but like many IT people discovered long ago that I can pick up most things in my general field with a bit of research. It is a dangerous mindset sometimes. There really is the feeling that with some basic undergrad math and comp sci and a weekend of googling you can understand quantum field theory and it's totally delusional of course.

Unfortunately the fake it to you make it culture seems to have won. It doesn't matter how crap you are, if you put yourself out there with confidence you will outcompete the quiet competent types. And when you get caught out there never seem to be consequences.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago

you put yourself out there with confidence and your parents blood money from emerald mines you will outcompete the quiet competent types.

But yeah. Point taken.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

Each of his companies has to have a layer of management that's simply about directing his attention somewhere that won't hurt the company. SpaceX seems to do this best, Tesla is OK to bad, and Xhitter is by far the worst.

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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 50 points 1 month ago

Elon is not an engineer. Don't believe his lies.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

good god he wrote two lines and they're both dumb as fuck

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 month ago

-bash: woke_mind_virus: command not found

[-] cupcakezealot 37 points 1 month ago

did he just attempt to fix a virus on his system by only deleting the containing folder and being like well that's that

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[-] frunch@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

He can fake gaming kinda-sorta, he can fake admirers kinda-sorta... Why could he kinda-sorta fake programming skills?

He's the ultimate fake

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[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

Woke mind found at loopback interface

Wokemind deleted

Now let's traceroute a fucking loopback of something you deleted...

It's not funny, it's not smart but it definitely is Elon.

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To me, the whole thing with "woke" being used as a derogatory term is the same as conservatist folk calling XR, Last Generation and other activists "eco-terrorists".

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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

🤔, I must not have the mind virus then as 127.0.0.1 does not loopback on my machines. Victory? Also I'd just like to point out that while hostnames can contain _ they're not supposed to as it's reserved for special purposes like SRV records.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

did he just delete his brain via neuralink?

[-] cupcakezealot 8 points 1 month ago

can't delete what you don't have

[-] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/neuralink bs=5G

[-] Stimpy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Reminds me of this classic https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hack-127001

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well if its in $PATH he just ran it

[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

God this tweet makes me mad on so many levels. Anyone who has spent any meaningful amount of time in the command line knows this tweet is such bullshit.

EDIT: Further venting of frustrations.