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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

I think it should've started with "stopped thinking"

[–] captain_aggravated 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Never started

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI will create the most cursed entry jobs humans have yet to see.

First job in the old days doing WordPress, managing someone's vomit inducing PHP? Gone.

Jobs with jQuery spaghetti calling dozens of asp APIs like a rat's nest no rat can traverse? Gone.

Welcome to the future: Fixing some "business" guy's vibe coded personal hell made just for you.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

Asking AI to make my website in C.

Who's going to fix that "business" for me? BTW, the AI says, it's 95% done and only needs some debugging, so you'll be paid accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 245 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The "Thought for 2 seconds" and "Stopped thinking" are hilarious to me

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I kinda thought they were in the wrong order, though: β€œrm -rf ~/β€œ should have been after β€œstopped thinking”.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

I think it did 'rm -rf ~/' and crashed. Hence the 'stopped thinking'

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.

[–] WhyJiffie 16 points 1 day ago

just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We call this a whoopsie daisy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I often use the phrase "that's definitely an oopsie. Maybe even an oopsie daisy" at work

[–] zarkanian 3 points 1 day ago

Whoopsie daisy-cutter.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is why the first thing I did when my company got us an agentic LLM was set up devcontainer.

https://containers.dev/

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I fairly recently tried to do a rm match* but accidentally put a space between the match and the *…

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the time when I bind mounted my home dir in a chroot, then rm -rfed the chroot when I no longer needed it...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of the company where one of the top brass tried to unmount an important fileshare with rm. That was the day they found out that they didn't have recent backups of a, shall we say disquieting, amount of important information and people's work.

Staff started taking their own private backups of important things after that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Gnome used to have a link to your homedir in its settings directory.

I imagine plenty of people had tons of fun with that. But you need to modify rm to follow symlinks nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (8 children)

OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?

[–] zarkanian 14 points 1 day ago

Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~

[–] JollyGreen_sasquatch 6 points 1 day ago

A method not yet mentioned is by inode, (I've accidentally created filenames I didn't know how to escape at the time like -- or other command line flags/special characters)

ls -li

Once you get the inode

find . -type f -inum $inode -delete

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should be \~ in most shells, certainly bash. Use mkdir and rmdir when messing around to prevent accidents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Saw this post this morning and was thinking about how to delete it ( while falling back asleep ). Escaping the ~, ofc that'd work! I feel so stupid now haha

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago
[–] captain_aggravated 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using Nautilus or Dolphin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

True if these are installed, but if I'm on a server's command line they probably aren't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

prefix with path, and/or quotation

[–] fin 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

No, but single quotes will.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

In case you are just testing it out, don't use -rf
Your ~ directory is most probably empty, so use rm -d instead, to prevent all footguns in case you put the wrong character in the end.

       -d, --dir
              remove empty directories

I feel safe doing rm -d /.
I feel safe doing sudo rm -d /.

Because it won't delete anything that has a file in it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

deserved tbh

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It should have done sudo rm -rf /*

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So. Funny story. Back when I was incredibly new to Linux, I was trying to move everything from my downloads folder to somewhere else. So I navigated into the downloads directory on the command line and sent something like

"sudo mv /* ~/misc"

when I meant to type

"sudo mv ./* ~/misc"

Yea... That was a fun learning experience and hilarious way to utterly fuck everything on that machine. Luckily it was just an old laptop I'd installed Linux on to mess around and learn, no real damage done

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Of course :3

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

ctrl-z... ctrl-z....CTRL-Z

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Is this assisted ~~suicide~~?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I mean I have to wipe out my ~ relatively frequently on some machines at times but that's for "actual" "reasons", LLM hallucinations not involved

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Same energy as Republican memes