[20after4]

Reminds me of the movie "Dark Star" by John Carpenter / Dan O'Bannon. The plot revolves around a talking smart bomb which is programmed to detonate and then gets stuck before being deployed. The crew spends the whole movie trying to reason with the bomb, hoping to talk it out of blowing up at the designated time. The movie is very very bad but if you like B movies it is also very very good.

[dotxlem]

One of my favourite episodes of Archer has a similar plot to this (Mr. Deadly Goes to Town). TIL this is one of the references!

https://archer.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._Deadly_Goes_To_Town

[Telemakhos]

Is that movie why seemingly every Linux book in the late 90s and early 2000s used "darkstar" as an example hostname?

[ex-leper]

It was the default slackware hostname, I believe slackware took inspiration from the movie

edit: I was wrong, it was from a Grateful Dead song. https://www.slackbook.org/html/glossary.html

[Wolfbeta]

Dark Star - Negotiating with the Bomb

https://youtu.be/_LXen-07Qds

[iririririr]

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You cannot be as funny as google trying to be responsible! Ha! I'm still laughing at this. A person was forbidden to see humans reasoning with a computer bomb because the cost cutting computer at google want me to talk him into believing i'm a human!

(And then I got "You're posting too fast" on THIS website AFTER i've written the comment lol. It's all a joke. But i'm bored so I will keep this comment open until the computer is pleased)

[the4ner]

There was a good star trek voyager episode, "dreadnought" that was a similar to this, maybe even a direct reference.