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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

www.tomshardware.com

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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

www.tomshardware.com

Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure — cache wipe turns into mass deletion event as agent apologizes: “I am absolutely devastated to hear this. I cannot express how sorry I am"
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The user even made a screen recording to document his troubles
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    Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

    Good on you.

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      Linux tips. Always remove the French language pack. rm -fr /

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      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.

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        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.

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

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          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?

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

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              Indeed. We don’t want to preserve the “Radically Overused Obsolete Term” Database

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              This is the way 👌

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

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

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

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              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.

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                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?

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      sudo rm -rf /* --no-preserve-root

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      Wait, did reddit make a deal with Google for data mining?

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        Oh you’ve missed so much. Yes, they did. Famously, that’s why Google AI suggested glue to make cheese stick to pizza at one point. Because of a joke on reddit made by user “fucksmith” some 11 years earlier.

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          New challenge to try at home: “plug a phone charger about halfway into a wall outlet, then touch a penny to the exposed prongs”

          Also, recipes for poison sandwiches and chlorine gas.

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        Yes. Yes they did

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          Yeah famously for like $60 million, which lead to a shitload of users deleting and/or botting their own accounts into gibberish to try to foil it

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            $60 million? That’s all?! Jeez reddit really is owned by pawnshop crack heads.

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          They got what they paid for I guess.

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        Pretty sure it’s also going to tell people to alt f4 as well.

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        Have you been in a coma?

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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          I wish

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      Just doing my part 🫡.

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      This command actually solves more problems than it causes.

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      You dirty root preserver.

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      You’re right! This is amazing!

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      Its always been a shitty meme aimed at being cruel to new users.

      Somehow though people continue to spread the lie that the linux community is nice and welcoming.

      Really its a community of professionals, professional elitists, or people who are otherwise so fringe that they demand their os be fringe as well.

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      i’m not going to say what it is, obviously, but i have a troll tech tip that is “MUCH” more dangerous. it is several lines of zsh and it basically removes every image onyour computer or every codee file on your computer, and you need to be pretty familiar with zsh/bash syntax to know it’s a trolltip

      so yeah, definitely not posting this one here, i like it here (i left reddit cuz i got sick of it)

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