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CoopaTroopatoday at 2:19 PM1 replyview on HN

While highly unprofessional, the "Who's a good boy?!" status message makes me like them a tiny bit more


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wltoday at 2:37 PM

For those unaware, embedded devices usually have a "watchdog" timer that needs to be periodically reset ("fed"/"pet"/"kicked") when everything is operating correctly or else the device will reboot as a fail-safe.

This log message probably indicates when they're resetting the watchdog timer.