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I'm trying out Obsidian for taking notes, and this made me laugh.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What if SIGTERM not enough? Kill nine times. Like this: killall -9 vim. Congratulations, comrade, you have passed KGB exam.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm never thought of it like that. Unix programs are actually cats, and sometimes you have to kill all nine of their lives to really end them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, one of them literally have name cat, so you can kill all the cats with killall -9 cat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You monster, I prefer denial