The "Thought for 2 seconds" and "Stopped thinking" are hilarious to me
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I kinda thought they were in the wrong order, though: βrm -rf ~/β should have been after βstopped thinkingβ.
I think it did 'rm -rf ~/' and crashed. Hence the 'stopped thinking'
At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.
just wait until they start vibe coding on their brain implant
Looks like ChatGPT will create more software jobs than it takes.
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.
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I did this once (for real, but without AI assistance)
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...
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.
Wanted to reorganize my /mnt once and did an rm -r ... without unmounting the network share of production.
We have backups now.
Same, I didn't realize the directory I was deleting had a symlink to some root directory, at least until my mouse stopped working....
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.
I did it recently. Its like watching your computer commit seppuku.
I fairly recently tried to do a rm match* but accidentally put a space between the match and the *β¦
Stopped thinking
Never started
I think it should've started with "stopped thinking"
deserved tbh
This is why the first thing I did when my company got us an agentic LLM was set up devcontainer.
We call this a whoopsie daisy.
I often use the phrase "that's definitely an oopsie. Maybe even an oopsie daisy" at work
Whoopsie daisy-cutter.
OK I'll bite, how do you get rid of a literal ~ directory?
Should be \~ in most shells, certainly bash. Use mkdir and rmdir when messing around to prevent accidents.
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
rmdir ./~
Just give rm the entire path or a relative path like ./~
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
prefix with path, and/or quotation
Using Nautilus or Dolphin.
True if these are installed, but if I'm on a server's command line they probably aren't.
rm -rf "~" may work?
No, but single quotes will.
huh, I almost removed my entire home directory
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.
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It should have done sudo rm -rf /*
For when you want to delete everything in the root directory, but absolutely need to keep the directory itself.
Of course :3
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
ctrl-z... ctrl-z....CTRL-Z
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
Is this assisted ~~suicide~~?
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