Herr Reher
David RevoyDon't ever give elevated permissions to an Avian Intelligence...
Gaëlle, patate quantique@davidrevoy you should have added #terraformDestroyLmao :D
Bob@davidrevoy Shell commands as magical incantations? Love it!
Panta Rhei@positivedinosaur @davidrevoy Same here! 😁
But something went awfully wrong, obviously the incantation was supposed to just ”read mail - real fast“ … 🤔
But something went awfully wrong, obviously the incantation was supposed to just ”read mail - real fast“ … 🤔
Enola Knezevic@pantaRhei @positivedinosaur @davidrevoy
rm -rf / clutter
"It is a good practice to add spaces for increased readability"
Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{@positivedinosaur
Well, they are, aren’t they?
Programs are poetry for computers, so … 😏
Abe the Honest@davidrevoy i see what you did there 😋
@nekoplanet 🐧 
Good this detail was noticed! I was in doubt about it for a long time during the prod.
Good this detail was noticed! I was in doubt about it for a long time during the prod.
C++ Wage SlaveNo need to worry — your judgment is sound. It's clear what the spell says. Thanks for another beautiful cartoon!
Pedram
lp0 on fire 
@CppGuy @davidrevoy @nekoplanet, I read the first and third words in it as having three syllables then I saw the “rm -rf /” comment and thought “oh, two syllables?” – it's definitely not immediately obvious because of that.
Pratchett's writing of the Disorganiser telling the time, e.g. “9 eh em”: to me, “eh” sounds like “e” in “tell” and very unlike the name of “a”, which I'd describe as “ay” (as in “take”). If he'd written “9 ay em” (but not “9 ayem”), I'd have understood it immediately.
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@davidrevoy it's glorious, just subtle enough to miss it the first time and get hit by it even harder upon realization 
Great!
Elena Rossini ⁂@davidrevoy @dside @nekoplanet absolute genius! 🔥 (and I also missed it the first time I read the comic)
Tyrone Slothrop
njsg@davidrevoy @nekoplanet Oh it was noticed. It made my day! Thanks!
@davidrevoy it got me for a moment as I reverse the options (I remember better that way as "one should be careful when removing France" 😆)
@nekoplanet I remember when I first started to browse the Linux community 20 years ago, someone had in the signature "you should all sudo rm -fr /" (or something like that, not remembering fully the exact wording) and I thought this user had a serious grudge against France 😆
@davidrevoy well, the order doesn't affect so everyone uses what they learned. But I don't have a fun mnemonic for "-rf" so...
I mean "remove, french style" sounds more expeditive! Bring the guillotines, we are purging this folder!
jezra@davidrevoy as someone who has performed that spell using natural stupidity, does that make me bird brained?
@jezra Of course not! I prefer the term "dangerous experimentor" 😅
Ozzelot 
@davidrevoy just like a cat! :)
F4GRX Sébastien@davidrevoy plumez le!
perry@davidrevoy --no-preserve-root
@libreinator @davidrevoy Only for GNU rm, unless other implementations have added it. I guess this detail means GNU rm is not compatible with the spec.
Conchoid@davidrevoy she needs some old timer chaosah magic
Don't Let Me Fall
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@ddnnacheta @davidrevoy It took me a second look to catch that :D
Same. I was wondering why the spell didn't look like made-up words based on real words, so I pronounced it, and then I was like... Ohhh... 🤭
Chao-c'@davidrevoy glad to see, that at least /dev/null remained safe...
Zestryon 🐈⬛@davidrevoy Le détail du WC bien clean restant 👌
zivi@davidrevoy back in the dumpster you go
Kayleigh Beard@davidrevoy Love this!!
raghukamath@davidrevoy haha nice one 😂.
One idea for future episode may be - the subscription nagging. After countless rephrasing, prompting and correction for making it understand your query. You want the answer for something too bad, you are out of credits. Upgrade to pro plan it is just 2 souls per month.
One idea for future episode may be - the subscription nagging. After countless rephrasing, prompting and correction for making it understand your query. You want the answer for something too bad, you are out of credits. Upgrade to pro plan it is just 2 souls per month.
@raghukamath Hey! Wow, you are reading into the future because the "upgrade to pro"/"paywall" is exactly the theme for next week.
I took another angle on it, around "prompting addiction" theme too, and with the blond elf Amall.
I took another angle on it, around "prompting addiction" theme too, and with the blond elf Amall.
Computeforloot 
George BRE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116207648749663738
I'm sure you have a massive pile of Avian Intelligence story ideas from everything happening but here's one that would fit in very well:
@gbargoud Thank you for sharing!
Fell@davidrevoy This needs a follow-up where the AI is totally confident that it did the right thing. Either that, or it apologises and promises to never do it again, and then does it again. 😅
grrl_aexOur little witch doesn't seem particularly bright...😬😜 fool me once etc
Hummingbird Security
Toon Link 
@davidrevoy It took me a second, and then I laughed so hard. 🤣 Oh NOOO!
I like how she doesn't even get mad. She asked for it, after all!
I have a friend who's going to switch to Linux soon, and I warned him that if he asks AI a question about it, he should be very, very careful about the answer, and to avoid anything that says 'rm -rf' unless he means it, and what that command does. He understood. 
Takiro 🎨
Carlos SolísAh yes, as seen in the Manual of Commands of Lord Unix
Theo 🏳️⚧️ 
@davidrevoy who ran chmod 777 avianIntelligence???
@tehrealgh5tbusters @davidrevoy, hah, nobody; that's going in more or less precisely the opposite direction, giving permissions to do things to avianIntelligence rather than giving it permissions to do things to, well, local reality.
sudo chown root avianIntelligence
sudo chmod g+s avianIntelligence
Markus Redeker 🐘@davidrevoy I hope she has a backup copy of her house. 🏡
Dr. Sobek@davidrevoy Where's the frog ? 🐸
ticho@davidrevoy A cautionary tale about how tragically can a simple "sudo make me a sandwich" end.
Feu d'jais 
@davidrevoy That's because you don't have the newer Avian Intelligence! They're smarter! Also you should learn how to talk to them.
𝙹𝚘𝚎𝚕 𝙲𝚊𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚝 ♑ 🤪@davidrevoy reminds me of Bedazzled (2000): I never tricked you. I gave you exactly what you wished for.
ᏕᎯᏕᏣᎻᎯ 
It's always these inexperienced people. Somewhere in the 1,000-page manual, there's bound to be a hidden note for this case: "Never let your AI run autonomously without AI.md attached. In this rule file, you write down fixed principles that your AI must adhere to."
This file may contain something like: Before each action, assess whether this action has potentially harmful consequences. Only carry out the action if two independent checks have not predicted any harmful consequences
Valerio Bozz@sam4000 @davidrevoy You can do sweet dreams then I guess 😁 good luck!...
Detail020@davidrevoy Is the bird named openclaw?
Ronflaix@davidrevoy bravo. The magic spell, just bravo.
Damien Goutte-Gattat@davidrevoy Oh my! 😁
I initially read the comic without giving too much thought about the incantation, but then I thought, “hum, I wonder if there’s a meaning in it?”, looked at it for a second…
“Wait, he didn’t…” (read the incantation out loud) “oh yes he did! 🤣 ”
Thanks for the laugh!
(On a more serious note, the outcome depicted in this comic could have been avoided if the parrot had been provided with some cat litter and a banana. Cat litter automatically enables --preserve-root, and bananas cause the filesystem to be mounted in read-only mode.)
𝔅icyclet𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰@davidrevoy yup, things can **always** get worse
Art Noir@davidrevoy
Gothic Sorceress doesn't seem to learn. Still, I have a crush on her.
Gothic Sorceress doesn't seem to learn. Still, I have a crush on her.