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Re: Daytripper

#91

Post by mellosouls »

spacedog11 wrote: post #50

The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…

See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor...

We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by williamdclt »

scarejunba wrote: post #88
komali2 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere this doesn't really work anymore on common distros for reasons I don't remember. Not that I'm gonna test it.

Most `rm` impls default to `--preserve-root` now, so you need to `rm --no-preserve-root`.

it prevents against `rm -rf /`, not `rm -rf /*` does it?

Re: Daytripper

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Post by projektfu »

projektfu wrote: post #24
solotronics wrote: post #18

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I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?

ATA secure erase. https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase

More info: http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/secure-erase-hdds-ss...

Also for nvme SSDs.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by onemoresoop »

kempbellt wrote: post #66

If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…

I agree, this is basically the recipe to wither oneself. Getting lazy and doing nothing becomes a habit hard to get rid of...

Re: Daytripper

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Post by snazz »

williamdclt wrote: post #92
scarejunba wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most `rm` impls default to `--preserve-root` now, so you need to `rm --no-preserve-root`.

it prevents against `rm -rf /`, not `rm -rf /*` does it?

Probably. The star would involve shell globbing. [edit for clarification: I meant that you’re probably right]

Re: Daytripper

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Post by [deleted] »

scarejunba wrote: post #88
komali2 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read somewhere this doesn't really work anymore on common distros for reasons I don't remember. Not that I'm gonna test it.

Most `rm` impls default to `--preserve-root` now, so you need to `rm --no-preserve-root`.

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Re: Daytripper

#99

Post by bonestamp2 »

hinkley wrote: post #48

I could use this going the other way: Put one of these near an information radiator to kick it out of doze mode.

I didn't dig through the code too much but it looks like the receiver just acts like a USB keyboard. So, you could probably modify the script to send some innocuous keyboard "input" that would knock off the screensaver (to show your radiator) instead of sending the close window and lock commands.

Re: Daytripper

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Post by adrianmonk »

papln wrote: post #34

Why is there a receiver, instead of running an app on the receiving system to listen for bluetooth/http/etc messages?

Maybe because something needs to be at each end, to shine a laser at one end and to detect it at the other. Or you could use a reflector, but that's still two objects.
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