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Accidentally typed 'sl' instead of 'ls'? Install this and get a steam locomotive to run across your terminal. (github.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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or be boring and alias sl=ls

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Not a mistake but a fun reminder that the terminal can be a very fun place!

 fortune | cowsay -f stimpy
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/ Poverty Jet Set:                        \
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| A group of people given to chronic      |
| traveling at the expense of long-term   |
| job stability or a permanent residence. |
| Tend to have doomed and extremely       |
| expensive phone-call relationships with |
| people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to   |
| discuss frequent-flyer programs at      |
| parties.                                |
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Find the lady in red with cmatrix -a -b -l -r

Or watch Starwars

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

figlet "Linux Rocks!"
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| |   (_)_ __  _   ___  __ |  _ \ ___   ___| | _____| |
| |   | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / __| |
| |___| | | | | |_| |>  <  |  _ < (_) | (__|   <\__ \_|
|_____|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ |_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\___(_)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

So I installed this way back in the day on my prod corporate VMs. I was still green, and any prod issues would shake me so much, it was too stressful.

I taught myself to relax when the locomotive pops up, take a few deep breaths and go on.

It was super effective. I learned to not get so flustered, and stopped messing commands due to adrenaline. I no longer install it anywhere, but it still puts a smile and a wave of nostalgia when I see or hear about it.

Such a small thing, yet it helped me grow so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I love dev work like this. Computers should be fun again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

This is exactly the type of thing I love.

[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 12 hours ago

I love how knowledge shedding makes this a cyclical discovery.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

alias l="ls", I'm immune to this problem

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Or ll='ls -laFh' to have it just how I like it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

im currently baking this into our hpc. people gotta see the train!

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I prefer "the fuck" https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

[–] corsicanguppy 2 points 12 hours ago

The fuck is awesome.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's going to be installed tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

thefuck is abandoned, you could try https://github.com/iffse/pay-respects instead

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I saw it wasn't maintained, after I posted. Was pretty bummed. Thanks for this!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I thought this was going to be about "the fuck"

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.

If you typed sl and actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you got

[–] corsicanguppy 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A smashed keyboard? How will provoking a hulk incident fix anything?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

If your reaction to someone telling you to slow down because you're being reckless by not confirming what you type on the CLI before pressing enter is to smash your keyboard, you should be fired

And in that case, sl has done its job of removing reckless people from dangerously powerful positions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Oof. Were they found and removed from the org?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.

Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars" Boss: "The wat?"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!

I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a horrific, stressful job. How do you cope with that?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.

Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds quite a lot like working in science actually. Just better paid, I'd imagine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.

And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….

Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Ah yes. When you need to slow the fuck down.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we're sharing silly useless projects, I quite like "activate linux", the configurable watermark inspired by "Activate Windows".
It's unfortunately not a strictly terminal based goof, but wanted to share anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

This isn't useless. It serves a purpose.

It's for interns who fat finger commands to force them to slow down and be more intentional and verify their commands before pressing enter.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

sl | lolcat

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would get slightly amused every time I typed "lust" instead of "list" as a kid in applesoft basic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

...now the question is do we want to implement a command for that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

don't forget to install gti

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

steam locomotive

rolling down the track

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

this is perfect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i sure am glad i use yakuake widescreen

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

That's a lot of choo-choo'ing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone know the "prank" repo that would delete Linux system (or Windows) when an wrong typo ran?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Suicide Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Lately for me it’s been “ks”