cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37425133
My favorites are bumblebees and jumping spiders, cute little critters!
Spectre, because it forces us to acknowledge the abstractions we build upon.
The one where OneDrive moves all your data to the cloud without asking, then warns you you’re running out of cloud storage space, and when you then disable it, it deletes your stuff from the cloud without moving it back to your disk.
That one’s good fun for the whole family!Or the one where OneDrive in its default config uploads your Documents folder to the cloud.
And Outlook 2019 in its default configuration stores the .pst file containing your e-mails in the Documents folder.
And Outlook .pst files get corrupted when you access them from inside OneDrive.
So a default MS Office install can corrupt your e-mails if you click “yes” on everything Microsoft “recommends”.99-pedes, they are off by one bugs.
At least they don’t corrupt the memory like 101-pedes
My favourite ones are compiler optimisations based on impossibility of Undefined Behaviour, like this one: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78751225/1122720
And time travel, of course: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140627-00/?p=633
Race conditions
You mean “ra conditionsce”?
Use after free / stale reference manipulation—it’s how to warp to the credits in video game speedruns
Bumblebutt, bumblebumblebumblebutt!
Wasn’t the original computer bug an actual insect that was found inside of a computer causing a short? If so, that one.
a moth.
the computer was a Harvard Mark II, though it should be noted that “bug” was used in engineering to refer to flaws in machines since before electronic computers existed, so it might not be the origin, but it’s the first time someone logged finding a bug in a computer,
Yeah, the log entry made it extremely clear that it was a pun on the existing term.
Daddy longlegs. They keep the garage clean of other critters and spiders.
Those aren’t bugs tho, they’re arachnids, but I agree.
