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Content warning: Linux, rm-related "jokes"
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't find purported-jokes-pretending-to-be-tips-or-tutorials which encourage users to run a variant of the `rm` command, which might delete all or part of their system, very funny.
Sure, there might be a "don't use code or commands you find online if you don't understand it" angle, as well as a "there are unpleasant people here too" angle, but it still feels like a dick move to me.
Help people *avoid* stuffing up their system.
#Linux
Sure, there might be a "don't use code or commands you find online if you don't understand it" angle, as well as a "there are unpleasant people here too" angle, but it still feels like a dick move to me.
Help people *avoid* stuffing up their system.
#Linux
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•Content warning: Linux, rm-related "jokes"
Also it wouldn't work since rm has this protection for decades now. Calling it a 🥒 move is way too harsh.
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•Content warning: Linux, rm-related "jokes"
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And `rm -fr /` won't do anything when you're logged in as n0r. (Yes, I do know that you know, just felt like it had to be said.)
n0r
•Uh, @neil did not specify any particular rm command? This thread started with "rm-related jokes" (meaning any rm recommandation intending to harm the naive Linux beginner), not "rm -fr /" specifically.
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•As a sidenote: people are telling these jokes since the early 90s on irc, and possibly even before that, and surprisingly few instances were known where they have caused actual harm.
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