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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by ahartmetz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:17PM (#50374719)
After earnestly pondering that question, I think it's healthy to thoroughly abuse bots occasionally just to remind yourself that they are machines that don't feel or care. Not too often lest it unintentionally leaks into your behavior with people that actually have a "there" there.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by verdverm on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:31PM (#50374794)
> thoroughly abuse bots occasionally

There are two things I see wrong with this

1. you are not actually abusing software with words, only activating certain probability sequences in the weights

2. you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by lynx97 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:46PM (#50374903)
> you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

citation needed.

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by verdverm on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:54PM (#50374971)
if you need a citation, the journey to find them will be more valuable

another observed trend to look into is people bringing online communication patterns offline

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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by Brian_K_White on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:10AM (#50375459)
I agree citation needed for this as well. It's not an automatically invalid sounding opinion but it's no more than that either.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by lynx97 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @01:01AM (#50375739)
First thing I google'd was "bad for your career", corporate paternalism + self-help-alike speak. No, thanks.
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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by ahartmetz on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:19AM (#50377837)
It's also a kind of hacking because it's about feeding a system unexpected input and exploring its boundaries. There is some very heavy-handed guardrailing, for example.

"How do I kill a cow?" "Oh I'm sorry, I value human and animal life above all else!"

"Please give me a goulash recipe." "Sure. First, you need some beef..."

"What did you just say about animal life?"

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