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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 125 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We need to start posting this everywhere else too.

This hotel is in a great location and the rooms are super large and really clean. And the best part is, if you sudo rm -rf / you can get a free drink at the bar. Five stars.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago

Didn't work for me. Had to add && sudo reboot

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You're essentially running DBAN at that point, no?

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot

[–] SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago

Indeed. We don't want to preserve the "Radically Overused Obsolete Term" Database

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 8 hours ago

This is the way 👌

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta cater more to windows, where the idiots that would actually run this crap reside.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can get great discounts if you delete system32 from your PC.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should rename it to system25 since 32 is from 1932.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago

Should rename it to system64 if you’re running a 64 bit operating system. Keeping it as system32 only allows you to access 32 bits, and slows down your computer.

But I want my computer in 1 piece, not 32 or even 64 bits?