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a "root vegetable" is a vegetable with administrator privileges

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(on holiday) Multiverse Mike

@computerfact

I haven't done the research to confirm this, but it sounds like sudo science to me...

Eli the Bearded

@multiverseofbadness @computerfact Beet me to punch. Sad to see such bogusosity turnup all over.

CautionWIP 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

@computerfact Related : “tubers” are vegetables that produce or consume online video content.

llewelly

@computerfact
to have real administrator powers a vegetable must be a true root, such as a rutabaga. Otherwise it's just sparkling corm operator privilege.

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@sirber

Samwise Gamgee, pentester.
Successfully breached Mordor's firewall and helped frodo throw their most valuable IP into /dev/null

Their security analyst, Gollum, nearly prevented the exploit, but failed at the last moment.

@computerfact

gws

@computerfact does that make 'leafy greens' happy dashboards with every section uncollapsed?

hesgen

@computerfact Your average corporate sysadmin, in other words.

schrotie

@computerfact Thus, carrots for example, are a great way to administer provitamin A.

Thomas Lumley

@computerfact so a patch pumpkin is a pumpkin with write access to the repository?

Mark Asser

@computerfact It means something quite different in Australian English.

DELETED

@computerfact Hey, @lowqualityfacts ! I found a fact of the appropriate level of quality for your collection.

m
@computerfact making an underground tuber a pseudo-sudo
kevin

@computerfact This is a quality fact. Thank you for sharing.

Cyber Yuki

@computerfact 🤔 No wonder the mandragora is so powerful, then

Teal Amore

@computerfact no joke, many moons ago as a baby intern, i was tasked with reimaging a bunch of machines. while there was a standard for what to name them, i didn't know it until after i had done like 5 machines, which i named all of them after root vegetables

we actually got an email from network security asking why we suddenly had "potato" and "carrot" on the network

C.

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I think I've worked with a couple of administrators like that.

Francis Rubio :verified:

@computerfact so does that make "root crop" when you open Gimp with admin privileges to crop an image…

zyk

@computerfact ahh I definitely know a few of these guys

MaJ1 OLD

@computerfact @johnb48 And I ignored my Mum pushing me to eat all those turnips for so many years! 🤦‍♂️

Veda Dalsette

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Nah-ah. A root vegetable is one that will cheer you on, no matter what.

Graham Sleight

@computerfact when they use social media they’re YouTubers

Vivek Gani

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I've rooted down so su you...

(thinking along 'I've upped my priority so up yours')

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