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Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by hobs on Friday September 29, 2023 @08:00AM (#37702539)
I still remember my google buddy talking about being aghast his intern (who was a CS major who obviously passed with flying colors and went to stanford or yale, I dont remember) not knowing what an IP address was.
Re:Things Every Hacker Once Knew by fuzztester on Friday September 29, 2023 @04:41PM (#37709851)
I've conducted interviews of professed Unix devs or sysadmins, some years ago, who didn't know what the setuid bit was, or confused it with the sticky bit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setuid

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit