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It's a cult of personality. Naturally, threatening the object of their obsession is going to create a strong response.

Why stop at guns? Everyone should have access to portable WMDs to keep the world safe.

Absolutely. That's why it's still good practice to include some kind of comment about the article in the post if the content isn't clearly identified by the headline.

Surprised not to see meta-classes or package management in the meme.

EDIT: clarification

Indeed. He seems like a dangerous and unstable individual. Shouldn’t he be on a watchlist instead?

It’s a good idea in principle but headlines are often not in the viewer’s interest. The purpose is to get you to watch the video, not to actually tell you what’s in the video.

Unfortunately there’s lots of good videos with Clickbait titles.

In this case it was a driver holding that thread captive and making an assumption about the hardware eventually responding to a request which never completes.

So yes indeed it was the kernel, and ideally the driver could be written better, but that’s probably easier said than done when the hardware can do weird things.

This was a long time ago, so for all I know the issue has been long corrected.

Oh no… I don’t like this. I don’t like this at all.

Is this... original content?

We don't take kindly to that around these parts. /s

I used to stick forks in the electrical outlets.

Now I post Linux memes.

How do you determine if a task is unresponsive?

This has happened to me only once on Linux. I still tell stories about it.

It was a CD burning program stuck in uninterruptible sleep! Trapped in a system call into the kernel that can never be interrupted by a signal, it was truly unkillable. The SIGKILLs simply piled up never to be delivered.