Fell warnings https://nondeterministic

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Fell warnings https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/116003234107222398

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@mcc And I thought "individual letters start disappearing from my PDFs because my syslog got so big it ate all remaining free space" was bad.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Did I ever tell you about that one time I needed to reinstall LinuxPPC, and I was going to wipe the drive anyway, so before I rebooted into the installer I tried running `rm -rf *` as root, just to see what would happen?

As I remember, it got as far as like /dev, and then it somehow deleted something that instantly made the system incapable of deleting files, and halted. After that I was able to cd around the system but VERY little worked

[mcc@mastodon.social]

When I was little, they told me not to rm -rf *. So once, when I was 15, I did

[rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt]

@mcc That reminds me of how, when EFI was first becoming widely used, people discovered the hard way that rm -rf */ could now not only break your install, but brick your entire computer:

https://www.theregister.com/2016/02/02/delete_efivars_linux/

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@rachelplusplus *terrified squeaking noise*

[astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc @rachelplusplus vendors putting critical data in UEFI vars ftl

[darkling@mstdn.social]

@mcc I've never done that, but I did once do

cd /lib; rm -rf modules/2.4.12/ *

(including the accidental space). That was fun, while my system curled up and died.

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@mcc @rachelplusplus IIRC some Samsung laptops could get bricked by writing too much data to the EFI variable area (which easily happened with Linux kernel crashes, but could also happen from Windows).