A confirmation message would be really helpful instead of losing all my stuff.
I think the lack of confirmation message is sort of the point.
Suicide Linux (2009)
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Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#12So, does your Linux Roguelike have any progression? Can I get a magic item (ie. a file) to put in my home directory to protect it from a single mistake, or something?
Like playing linux on survival mode? I like it.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#13This is like that time, last week, when I was having issues with do-release-upgrade and someone helpfully suggested to run
sudo apt-get purge python* && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get install python*
Which I did without paying attention to what I was doing and it turns out that this is one of the worst things you could do ever on a Debian-based distro.
Damn you, abu-ahmed al-khatiri.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#14why no --no-preserve-root flag?
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Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#15It reminds me of the Russian Linux Roulette...
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo '*Click*'
alias roulette='[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -f $(shuf -n1 -e *) && echo "BOOM" || echo *Click*'
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#16A confirmation message would be really helpful instead of losing all my stuff.
This comment reminds me of one of the ones in the thread a few days ago about Google clearing out trashed items. It was something like “this stinks because I always store my most important documents in the trash”, except this one seems to be less sarcastic :)
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#17This is like that time, last week, when I was having issues with do-release-upgrade and someone helpfully suggested to run sudo apt-get purge python* && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get install python* Which I did without paying attention to what I was doing and it turns out that this is one of the worst things you could do ever on a Debian-based distro. Damn you, abu-ahmed al-khatiri.
Also on Gentoo. Once you've done it, your package manager is gone... At least you'll be warned when you attempt to do it, and often there will be two or more Python installations (2.7, 3.x), and Portage will run on any of them, so incidents like these are actually rather rare.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#18This is like that time, last week, when I was having issues with do-release-upgrade and someone helpfully suggested to run sudo apt-get purge python* && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get install python* Which I did without paying attention to what I was doing and it turns out that this is one of the worst things you could do ever on a Debian-based distro. Damn you, abu-ahmed al-khatiri.
What's wrong with that command?
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#19Interesting. It annoys me when hackers tend to do something 'creative' once they're in. Instead of recursively deleting everything (which has the most impact) - they try some novel and boring task which has low impact. The end goal of all nefarious forms of hacking should be to wipe everything.
What about: Making money (cryptomining, CCN theft)? Stealing data (SSNs, other identity documents)? Ransoming the data for money? In the end of the day, most cybercrime is focused on making money, so wiping a system has zero utility (especially as it would tip off the owners to your presence).
> Ransoming the data for money?
It's acknowledged that some high-profile ransomware attacks had the ulterior motive of wiping data. They used the ransomware as a front and really just wanted to do damage, not make money.
Re: Suicide Linux (2009)
#20This is like that time, last week, when I was having issues with do-release-upgrade and someone helpfully suggested to run sudo apt-get purge python* && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get install python* Which I did without paying attention to what I was doing and it turns out that this is one of the worst things you could do ever on a Debian-based distro. Damn you, abu-ahmed al-khatiri.
What's wrong with that command?
OS requires python pkgs for much core functionality. Command gets rid of all of them