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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by csolisr@communities.azkware.net to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is about as believable as “the dog ate my homework.”

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

At least I know dogs that would do that...

[-] Communist@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

One time my dog actually did eat my homework and I informed my teacher that he'd never believe the truth.

He said it actually happened to him once too and let me redo it. I'm lucky as fuck.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Trust it'll be used as justification for RTO

[-] ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Fuck the cat landed on my keyboard typed sudo rm -rf / --no-peserve-root and then pressed enter.

Yeah John blame it on the cat !!! We all have intrusive thoughts but don't follow them through!!!

[-] SquiffSquiff@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago

Inappropriate use of cat

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Well of course. Cats hate vets.

[-] drivepiler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is quality

[-] Aloha_Alaska@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

I typed a really long comment in Memmy last night and my daughter bumped my hand, causing the reply window to swipe away and all my work was gone.

So “same,” basically, I guess.

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Well, you don't typically type out a whole server config in one go. You shouldn't be manually editing it on a target host to begin with...

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually you should never be "typing a really long" anything in a browser or an app. They're unreliable. Use a saving editor and when you're done, copy the final over.

Basics, people!

[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

If I fucked up like that and a cat was around, I might tell the same story.

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What a convenient CATastrophe

[-] 1dan@mastodon.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

.@csolisr @old_ghost @PeachMan This whole tragic story could have been avoided if they had just implemented the CTD and XCAT signals laid out many years ago in the DL-232 specifcation by this visionary engineer. http://www.lyons42.com/humor/dl232.html

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That cat's name? "Article 99"

[-] Knusper@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system

When you need to throw in some more meaningless words to make an acronym work...

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023

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