Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@er1n well, it'd have to have a masto instance on it

they should make a film about Mad Jack Churchill

@rey living dangerously I see

@noelle Oh hell yes, IBM BASIC

I taught myself how to (kinda) code with that one

@squirrel I did!

And a very good robot you are too

@meena yeah, it's meant to be for the sake of debate between people acting in good faith (pun not intended) but everyone knows how debates go on the internet

@meena yeah, comes from Advocatus Diaboli (latin for Devil's Advocate), they were a canon lawyer that had the job of uncovering any character flaws or misrepresentation of evidence favouring the canonisation of a candidate

They served as the party advocating against making someone a saint, and were up against the Advocatus Dei (God's Advocate) who were arguing that someone should be made a saint

@squirrel so have I!

I've been posting whimsical and half baked ideas when I should have been calling pleroma admins cunts!

@squirrel yeah, it's been quite a while

you'd have thought they'd have gotten over it by now

@squirrel how long has it been since the block? And they're still whining about it?

@meena the first devil's advocates were catholic priests arguing against making someone a saint

So I'm pretty sure Satan's used to that bullshit by now and has a special little place in hell for them

@Elizafox @Siphonay@octodon.social "Sorry sir, must have gotten confused and radioed in the coordinates of the base rather than the artillery range"

@Siphonay@octodon.social consider: a gun could be really useful for "accidentally" damaging more French military equipment

"Sorry sir, I missed and accidentally put 12 bullet holes in that truck's engine over there"

@bea @kibi you could plug a keyboard into your phone!

Best of both worlds

@Siphonay@octodon.social well that's bullshit

This might help you sticking it to them https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional

It's the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual, lots of tips and tricks for breaking enemy equipment and generally fucking things up

@vantablack I'd use one of two things, xdotool or xnee

xdotool allows you to script mouse and keyboard input, xnee allows you to record and replay it

both should be available in repos

@vantablack on a scale of 1 to very, very