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[–] 6 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Unix philosophy: never alert or stop the user from causing irreparable damage

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  • [–] 105 points 3 days ago

    Just tried it. The whole project is so much more clean now!

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  • [–] 67 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    while you are at it, also remove the French language pack

    rm -fr --no-preserve-root /
    
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  • [–] 28 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Oh stawp, some poor soul is going to waltz into this thread without knowing enough to recognize the dripping sarcasm throughout 😭

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Oh, you're right! They forgot the s at the end. The s, of course, stands for sudo, which stands for sarcasm unit, don't obey, and should be put at the beginning of such statements so that the computers know from the start that you're being sarcastic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Yeah and if it prompts you for a password that's because the computer has a self-destruct system built-in for security. The sysadmin doesn't want strangers running sarcastic commands locally, so it's super important to type the password correctly or else the servers could explode

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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    Oh, I get it. So that's why we're doing this?

    Yes, totally, I understand now. I don't know what I was thinking. You're right! I do rm -rf all the time! Sometimes when I want my whole system to be neat and tidy, I run rm -rf /. It really gives it that extra sparkle ✨

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago

    It's more likely that some unfortunate new user will run this command, than any LLM. Especially because commands like this would be the first to be added to an LLM harness' regex blacklist.

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  • [–] 35 points 3 days ago

    All you folks are using the wrong tool. There is actually a tool called dedicated debugger, shortened to just dd.

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  • [–] 45 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I can confirm that "shred -fzx /file-name.extension" works perfectly for getting rid of all bugs. Just be sure to replace "file-name.extension" with the file you are working with. You can thank me later.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    This reminds me of when 4chan's /g/ board tried this like 15 years ago on Mac users. It didn't work.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    I know what the second one does, but what does the first one do?

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  • The old chestnut sprouts again. How long has this joke been around?

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    While we're on the topic, this is a really fun story for anyone who's not already familiar.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    Oh Windows has this too! Format C: | Y

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