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William, the šŸµ drinkerā„¢

@thegibson i accidentally left a character off an SQL query that made it's way into production. my fix was a 1 character change.

4 Nov 2022 at 4:44 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Cyber Yuki

@caranmegil @thegibson That time I changed a server's SSH keys and locked myself out. Had to ask the provider for a replacement šŸ˜…

4 Nov 2022 at 4:47 | Open on hackers.town
William, the šŸµ drinkerā„¢
Elias MĆ„rtenson

@caranmegil @yuki2501 @thegibson that time in the 90's when I was developing a CD distribution of software, and I did it all on my workstation running SCO Unix, without backups.

Well, Windows 95 came out and I wanted to try it out so I wanted to double boot it on my system. Of course, this being Microsoft, it completely wiped the partition table on the machine.

A few months of work down the drain. And it was my fault for not taking backups.

I worked a weekend learning what I could about the partition table format and reconstructed it. I was then able to mount the filesystem and thankfully the files had not been overwritten, so I could save the work.

So yeah, it could have been worse, but I was still an idiot for causing it to happen. In fact, I was doubly an idiot, since I not only didn't take backups but I also installed Microsoft software without assuming things would go wrong.

@caranmegil @yuki2501 @thegibson that time in the 90's when I was developing a CD distribution of software, and I did it all on my workstation running SCO Unix, without backups.

Well, Windows 95 came out and I wanted to try it out so I wanted to double boot it on my system. Of course, this being Microsoft, it completely wiped the partition table on the machine.

4 Nov 2022 at 5:39 | Open on functional.cafe
nomad :verified_pride:
William, the šŸµ drinkerā„¢

@nomad @thegibson nothing like not converting between different floating point sizes

4 Nov 2022 at 4:49 | Open on mastodon.social
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