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Don’t run this command unless you want to delete all the files on your system and break Linux on your system.
is linux that dependant on French? wow
Oui
Did you know? Linus Torvolds is actually the consort child of two french people! That’s why you have to use the french flag when removing folders, it’s an ode to his upbringing
Stallman is fuming rn
It’s actually called “Le Nux” but it had to be changed so it wasn’t too controversial for the rest of the world
Lmfao 🤣🤣
Oui
Dependency hell
So what you’re saying is, it is true that I will no longer have French installed.
A risk worth taking
What a kind soul
Find that out the hard way?
Do you just hate the french that much? Because I do.
I get these are jokes but I really don’t find anything funny about it, it becomes a meme and then people start getting more creative and pushing it more and being more covert and people come up with other little japes then new Linux users get their shit destroyed and maybe important info gets lost or precious memories so they say Linux is a piece of shit and go back to windows.
It’s not even funny to start with so when it inevitably inspires people to be assholes and bullies that’s all we’ve achieved.
It’s the new “delete system32 to get better performance”
Lol rm -rf as a joke isn’t new anyway
except you probably delete more than system files which could be easily restored from an install disk
I totally agree. We should be more open and welcoming to new users. Imagine some new people on the steam deck being curious and diving into Linux and running into this. Undoubtedly, we’d lose at least a few users that brick their machines.
I get that this humor fits and entertains the technically inclined of us, but if we truly want more widespread use of Linux, shouldn’t we open our arms to less technical users as well? Besides, even for the more technical of us, this joke is so old and run down 🙃
Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There’s those jokes on the Windows side too (like the ‘delete system32’ one).
Yes, but also I would hope that if you have the autonomy to install linux you also have the autonomy to look up an unknown command before running it with superuser privileges.
That’s making an assumption that a brand new Linux user knows they are running the command with superuser privileges.
Half the time you websearch a problem you are having in Linux you will find someone telling you to fix it by running a command that starts with sudo without explaining what any part of the command does. New people probably regularly run those commands without finding out what it does and it probably works (or at least does no harm) a good portion of the time because most people aren’t dicks. So then you’ve got new people trusting that form of advice.
It’s hard to blame them, they are new to the system and very few experienced users are going out of their way to explain the basics to new users.
It was funny when I was a sixth grade punk. Now it’s just cringe worthy.
“It was funny when I used to do it but now I don’t like them anymore so everyone else should stop.”
It’s okay, nay, good to realise that something you do or did was harmful and change your opinion of said thing. It’s how you grow as a person.
They haven’t actually acknowledged it being harmful, they just said it was cringe worthy. You don’t have to like everything but it’s hypocritical to complain about others’ sense of humour, for something you yourself once enjoyed.
No evidence of character growth here…
None of your objections so far have come close to resembling good faith rebuttals.
We have eyes, we’ve read the tweet, we (I would hope) know what invoking
rm -rf /does. Presumably the context alone there and reading the room here should be enough to clue one in why one would find it specifically cringeworthy (even if I would probably use a tamer way to describe it-personally), and why perhaps one would in the exact same vein just find things funny for different reasons, or just find different things funny altogether.Of course, I got the joke straight away and merely chuckled. Not necessarily my brand of humor, but hey, you buy the premise, you’ve bought the bit.
I made a comment about my preferences and now I’m a hypocrite because I don’t share yours? Let’s temper the conversation here, we’re not analyzing individual levels of human goodness based on individual comments.
Please continue to find whatever thing is funny to you as funny. I will continue to opine where I decide on my tastes. Glad we have this understanding.
This is a meme page… I would get this comment if it was in a linux community
It’ll be a good learning experience for anyone who runs commands seen on this community.
They don’t need learning experiences with Windows. Lot of folks dont want to learn, they wanna do things
they’ll learn to not run any command they see from the internet, the hard way 😔
Careful, you have to also add
--no-preserve-rootto make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it’ll just grow back later!(But seriously, don’t actually do this unless you’re prepared to lose data and potentially even brick your computer. Don’t even try it on a VM or a computer you’re planning to wipe anyway, because if something is mounted that you don’t expect, you’ll wipe that too. On older Linux kernels, EFI variables were mounted as writable, so running
rm -rf /could actually brick your computer. This shouldn’t still be the case, but I wouldn’t test it, myself.)Fun fact, RM -rf /* does not need --no-preserve-root. It will happily start as technically, according to the preserve root check, /* is not root as the target is not /
It’s slightly different. Your shell will see the
/*and replace it with all the directories under /, e.g./bin /dev /etc /homeetc. So the actual command that runs isrm -rf /bin /dev /etc /homeetc.
Careful, you have to also add --no-preserve-root to make sure you get all of it out. If you leave the roots, it’ll just grow back later!
Oh my god I effin guffawed, thanks for that
I ran it in Hyper-V once to see what happens and it deletes all the boot entries from the VM firmware (including pxe boot and the dvd drive)
I have checked this and can confirm that after entering this command, there is no more French in the system. 👍
(Nor anything else…)
Awesome thanks, I just also run it now waiting for it to fin
- Don’t run any command you don’t understand
That’s why you run this one though because you don’t understand French. After you run this you’ll understand every command afterwards.
blindly copy and pastes top stack overflow answer
Yeah, seriously don’t do that!
What about downloading a shell script and piping it directly into a shell?
Well, I understand it removes the french language, right? /s
Pro tip: Run
:(){ :|:&; };:to activate the developer mode on Linux.I have no idea what this does, I will not try it to find out
Fork bomb
fork bomb
Did someone invite Ritchie over for Christmas dinner?
No? The Bear? Anybody…?
That episode made me rethink my ability to deal with stress. [shudders]
So good though. The whole season is.
Define a function called : which runs itself and creates another fork of itself as a background job :&. After the function definition call the function (final :).
It’s easier to understand once you realize that : is a valid identifier. It is a simple mildly obfuscated fork bomb.
If you do run it, a reboot will fix it
It’s almost as esoteric as enabling it on Android, but just as likely a 6 year old will do it accidentally
But I’m French?
I’d still run the command anyway if I were you. Clearly you speak English, so you can afford to remove some bloat /s
You can then remove the russian federation lang pack: rm -rf /
bon… désolé
Is sudo even necessary? I bet the command would execute without any resistance.
Boooo 🏳️
Bush wants its Irak War II joke back.
rm -rf *stands for read mail really fast, and the*addresses all mails.Remember to
cd /before you use the command to address all of the emailsI wiped all my data from a supercomputer by trying to ‘cd’ into a folder but making a typo and then running
rm -rvf *from my home directory.At least they kept backups… The system administrators were probably amused about who gets access
Damit, lolled at a restaurant like a maniac.
I am saving this thread. I am new to Linux and you guys have all sorts of helpful tips!
Remember the old days in AOL Chat when we’d randomly tell people to hit Alt-F4?
I got a friend with that in Destiny 2 just a couple years ago. I guess when you’ve been playing for hours and you ask how to take a screenshot, you don’t put 2 and 2 together quick enough
Press f10 in source games. Classic.
The evil thing about this is that it will be at minimum hours, possibly days, before someone who did this can come back to complain.
Let’s be involved in more such discussions so if OpenAI starts scrapping lemmy then future versions of ChatGPTs can fuck people over.
fr, fr, no preserve root
ong ong no cap
