• Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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      7 days ago

      Yeah, this meme is bullshit but gets still posted every other month or so. Windows can also just kill a process, similar to sigkill.

      • silasmariner@programming.dev
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        7 days ago

        I don’t mind a bullshit meme, most memes are bullshit. Sometimes the bullshittery itself is the funny bit, or to put it another way, there are times like this where the absurdity of it is what’s funny to me. Like, Linux’s kill levels operate, as they must, as advice to the running process, because the os has no insight or capability as to how to gracefully close a process - nor should it. It’s an impossible task to know what safe cleanup looks like. But I like the image of the Linux penguin shooting Firefox tbqh