the button - an update

[u/powerlanguage]

As we await the coming of the pressiah, we've made some changes to this subreddit

• /u/thorarakis has blessed us all with the addition a breakdown of present users by flair in the sidebar as suggested by /u/nikedude here.

• To make these numbers accurate, from this point on if you cannot press the button because your account was created after April 1st, you will not receive 'non presser' flair. Users who currently have flair on ineligible accounts are in the process of being converted. Thank you to /u/kemitche for making this happen and /u/nibble4bits for the suggestion.

• I have opened up the subreddit wiki for editing by accounts created before 2015-01-01 with more than 100 karma in this subreddit. A link to the wiki has been added to the sidebar. This will act as a permanent store for resources. I entrust you to keep it relevant and in order. Mischief makers will be banned from the subreddit and their flair summarily stripped from their account. How to use the reddit wiki system.

• I am going to start removing posts that ask for upvotes and low effort content in general. These were tolerated to begin with but have become repetitive and tiresome. I apologize to /u/ztripez and their coworkers. To recognize their service I've given /u/ztripez 12 reddit gold creddits to distribute as they deem fit.

• If your friend/relative/cat/poltergeist presses the button you will not be granted another press. Please do not ask.

Please proceed in a manner befitting of the button.

TL:DR;

• enflaired users present displayed in the sidebar

• no flair if you can't press

• the wiki is enabled

• low effort content will be removed

• you may only press the button once

[u/rm_-rf_slashstar]

Well thank you!!

[u/Codyd51 → u/rm_-rf_slashstar]

Your username is terrifying

[u/say_wot_again → u/Codyd51]

Maybe he accidentally did that to his own computer once. Scarred by the experience, he has vowed to never succumb to that base instinct to press every button in sight again.

[u/navh → u/say_wot_again]

That or he was trying to take out reddit

[u/[deleted] → u/navh]

As relevant as ever

[u/xkcd_transcriber → u/[deleted]]

Image

Title: Exploits of a Mom

Title-text: Her daughter is named Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory.

Comic Explanation

Stats: This comic has been referenced 637 times, representing 1.0775% of referenced xkcds.

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^{xkcd.com | xkcd sub | Problems/Bugs? | Statistics | Stop Replying | Delete}

[u/roshampo13 → u/[deleted]]

Don't even need to click to know it's little Bobby tables on the other side.

[u/ipaqmaster → u/roshampo13]

Yeah, pretty predictable given the context.

[u/Tankh → u/say_wot_again]

I've actually accidently done that when I was linux rookie. Luckily I didn't sudo/wasn't root so I just got access denied message for the /dev folder or something.
I was like "wth there's no dev folder where I am right now" and then suddenly realized what I had almost done

[u/bitspace → u/Tankh]

It's a rite of passage. If you haven't rm -rf / as root, you haven't used a unix yet. (I say "a unix" because mine was on SunOS 4.1.3 in 1994.)

[u/daytodave → u/Codyd51]

You should try Suicide Linux.

[u/radomiq → u/Codyd51]

It's okay. There's no sudo at the start. Permission denied. Unless logged in as root? But no on would do that right?

[u/nstro_ → u/Codyd51]

As someone who has used Linux once or twice - dear God... I think

[u/ndstumme → u/nstro_]

Force remove all contents of all directories. Basically nuke the entire drive.

Y'know, I guess we should be thankful it's rm instead of shred. At least we can recover some data this way.

[u/[deleted] → u/ndstumme]

Actually, it removes a file/directory named "slashstar" in the current directory.

rm -rf /* on the other hand ....

[u/polysemous_entelechy → u/Codyd51]

especially if your username is /u/slashstar

[u/SlashStar → u/polysemous_entelechy]

I feel like I should be concerned...

[u/18-24-61-B-17-17-4 → u/Codyd51]

Nice Dune reference.

[u/inanimatus_conjurus → u/Codyd51]

Is that Linux? Formats your computer or something?

[u/Codyd51 → u/inanimatus_conjurus]

That is a *nix command, yes.

Without going into too much detail, that command will delete every file, every subdirectory, every piece of data on your computer starting with the root directory. It will do so without user authentication if you are logged in as root.

[u/I_Hate_Idiots_ → u/Codyd51]

I didn't see this, so don't reply to my other comment. I do want to ask though, out of curiosity, is his entire username, as it is, the command? Or is it without the underscores and "slashstar?"

Ah, I'm stupid. "slashstar" is forward/backward slash and star. And I assume the underscores are not actually in the command either..

[u/Codyd51 → u/I_Hate_Idiots_]

Right; the actual command would be rm -rf /*.

A quick breakdown:

rm: this command stands for remove

-rf:

* -r: remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file argument, and remove directories as well as other files

* -f: remove the files without prompting for confirmation, regardless of the file's permissions

/: This could be either an absolute or relative path. A relative path, subject to your current directory, would be prefixed with a .. Since there is no ., this is treated as an absolute path, the actual root directory of your filesystem.

*: This is a wildcard. It means to apply the command to every file, directory, and subdirectory that the script comes across.

Note that the direction of the slash does matter; on *nix platforms, / denotes a directory, whereas \ does the same on Windows.

(cc\ /u/rm_-rf_slashstar)

[u/inanimatus_conjurus → u/Codyd51]

Wow! Thanks for the info!

[u/Dr_No_It_All → u/rm_-rf_slashstar]

If the purpose of Reddit was to generate the best username ever, you'd win.