On: A tale of demonic possession predicted the decline...

[gostsamo]

Linux made us all occultists.

[noelwelsh → gostsamo]

The DnD -> Linux -> Occultist pipeline. The moral panic in the 1980s was actually right.

[chefandy → noelwelsh]

Just sort of mix them all together.

::fails the attack roll::

'Ok, sudo attack the beast with my mace.'

[chefandy → gostsamo]

Back when Linux (et al) was a bit more novel in enterprise environments, I certainly heard MCSEs and such refer to Linux administration black magic.

[lukan → gostsamo]

I think developing and debugging complex systems, where most is a black box, does that in general

https://www.xkcd.com/2259/

Trying out the right magic invocation until something starts working again.

[bigstrat2003 → lukan]

Yep, sometimes we are basically techpriests. Apply the sacred unguents and pray that the machine spirit calms down, cause that's all you can do.

[lukan → bigstrat2003]

It is going to be even more fun, once LLMs or alike are embedded in the pipelines by default ..

[chefandy → lukan]

‘Have you had “the talk” with your llm daemons yet about peer-to-peer pressure?’