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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/hospital_cat_incident/

US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing

A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.

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Aloha_Alaska

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I typed a really long comment in Memmy last night and my daughter bumped my hand, causing the reply window to swipe away and all my work was gone.

So “same,” basically, I guess.

Knusper

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Well, you don't typically type out a whole server config in one go. You shouldn't be manually editing it on a target host to begin with...

XTL

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Actually you should never be "typing a really long" anything in a browser or an app. They're unreliable. Use a saving editor and when you're done, copy the final over.

Basics, people!