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Post #3535573

2026-07-02 12:20 UTC

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse." #infosec #sysadmin #bofh

Replies (10)

  • @davep@infosec.exchange 2026-07-02 14:53

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social That is spot on 😵‍💫

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  • @kluthulhu@infosec.exchange 2026-07-02 21:13

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social aka printers.

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  • @anderesu@masto.es 2026-07-02 13:51

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social la maldición de las impresoras

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  • @GordonFawks@rubber.social 2026-07-02 13:53

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social Curses are a type of Magic, so Yes.

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  • @morgan@sfba.social 2026-07-02 14:03

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social kidding aside, that's part of the premise of Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World.

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  • @FlohEinstein@chaos.social Case in point, those horrible corporate printers.

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  • @StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2026-07-02 15:29

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social Magic is just technology you don't understand.

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  • @jerrej@mastodon.social 2026-07-02 15:49

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social Conversely: "Any sufficiently simple-seeming problem invites a similarly simple, yet, crude, solution." In other words: "If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." I am pretty sure that's how ACC derived his popular phrase. But I am probably wrong, because of my hammer.

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  • @nlupo@amikejo.xyz 2026-07-02 15:58

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social Why I'm cursed with the Android curse then :floofSad_256:

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  • @sb@metroholografix.ca 2026-07-02 16:01

    @FlohEinstein@chaos.social One time when working a Dev job writing and fixing Java, I had this insane bug that kept cropping up, but seemingly had no cause. I decided I'd better walk away from the problem for a bit, so I opened up kijiji and wrote a classified ad looking for a witch doctor to reverse the curse on my code (which I had decided was a *mummy's curse*). I got two replies right away. One was from a friend who had correctly guessed I was behind the ad. The second was a Christian zealot who though I was dead serious and tried to get me to accept Jesus into my life. I think something was stuck in a cache somewhere in the CI pipeline.

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