* Calls 911 *

“Name your drink, McDonald’s has it. For the special…”

* 30 seconds later *

“Thank you for calling 911.
For reporting a burglary, press 1.
If you are being chased by an armed person, press 2.
…
For an ambulance, press 14.
If you want to talk to an operator, press 0.”

* Presses 0 *

This call is being recorded for training and monitoring purposes. You will be connected to an operator after the beep.

* Beep *

“Hello I’m Haley 9000, an AI powered voice operator. How can I help you?”

Background source plz 🙃

Maybe use a RAM based fs? Some distros mount /tmp as tmpfs into the RAM. You can look into that.

Yeah, these things quickly boil down to the trusting trust thing (see Ken Thompson’s Turing award lecture). You can’t trust any system until you’ve designed every bit from scratch.

You gotta put your trust somewhere, or you won’t be able to implement jack.

I got reminded of it last week after years. What are the chances it came up again. 😁

It’s in Intercal, a joke language from '70s. Mark Rendle describes it here in his talk at NDC. This whole talk is ridiculous btw.

There’s croc which looks very similar to magic-wormhole. Haven’t used magic-wormhole so can’t compare the two though.