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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard::US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If a cat can cause damage you are doing it wrong

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

This is why my scratching posts are all carbon steel

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No problems with the cat but what about my pet rm?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Not without help from your pet sudo.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You can blame a cat or dog approximately once per 5 years of employment. Nice save!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

My dog ate my spreadsheet

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Randy you’ll never believe it. The cat did it again, yep this time it’s the IRS servers. Whole thing is down and can’t be recovered. Don’t worry I have told the cat on no uncertain terms that 3 or 4 more times and I’m going to start getting pretty angry about this.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago

White hat kitty is in ur serverz

Erasing ur PIIz

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Why you should write rm /path/to/dir -rf ; and not rm -rf /[cat jumps here]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Some linux greybeard wisdom right there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Other than cat jumping, you can just accidentally hit enter all by yourself, it's a well-developed reflex for all of us.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Huh. Cats on keyboards usually create superheroes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I donmt like where this is going. Legit, animals are considered peoperty and this cat has United States of America v. Random cat who had and maintains no idea what the fuck's going on written all over it.

Sad.

Edit: on second thought, let me read around some more, I had this "odd" impulse that this guy might be worse for the cat so I for one welcome our...ya I'm gettin' way too tired and informed of this stuff