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This is gonna suck for the people who store their important documents in the trash.

• riantogo 6y ago
  "I would have gladly released my tax returns but unfortunately it was saved in the trash folder"
• kryogen1c 6y ago
  a decidedly nonzero amount of people, vis a vi https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
  • jetrink 6y ago
    It comes up regularly on the subreddit for tech support stories, /r/talesfromtechsupport. Just a few: https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/22ke8s/is_there_any_way_to_get_my_deleted_files_back_ive/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/22ke8... https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/c24q20/it_keeps_happening/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/c24q2... https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/flgsnn/recycle_bin_follies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/flgsn... https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/65cam1/you_deleted_all_my_files/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/65cam... https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/bks9ei/i_get_yelled_at_for_cleaning_out_deleted/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/bks9e... https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/9wrscp/i_need_my_deleted_emails_back/ https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/9wrsc...
    • FirstLvR 6y ago
      am dying of laughter, wtf is wrong with these people
    • SamBam 6y ago
      > CW: Yes, I move them to the recycling bin to make them new again so I can reuse the files. > IT: This is the trash bin, you would move files here to delete them off of your computer. > CW: IT IS NOT A TRASH CAN, IT IS A RECYCLING BIN! IT SAYS SO RIGHT UNDER THE ICON! Ok, now wait a second, why the hell is it called a recycling bin anyway? "Recycling" doesn't mean "plan to throw this away later, but maybe I'll still grab it out of the trash can in case I made a mistake." Who came up with this metaphor?
      • TulliusCicero 6y ago
        Probably because "Trash" had already been taken by Mac OS.
      • samatman 6y ago
        Direct consequence of Microsoft stealing the paradigm from the Mac, where it has been called the "trash" since 1984.
        • zizee 6y ago
          > Microsoft stealing The word you are looking for is "copying".
      • shajznnckfke 6y ago
        You can find all sorts of interesting stuff in the recycle bin! The garbage bin is much worse, everything is covered in food waste.
• Barrin92 6y ago
  well at least once in my life I had accidentally deleted something important without backing it up (nobody's perfect) and I was glad I could recover it from the trash. I'd honestly prefer if the policy would at least excempt reasonably small files or textfiles.
  • ls612 6y ago
    You have 30 days to recognize your mistake still with this new plan
• tonyedgecombe 6y ago
  That reminds me of my customers that used to put documents in C:\Temp
  • unixhero 6y ago
    Let's face it. We've all been there.
  • hanoz 6y ago
    My C:\temp is so full of stuff, some unknown amount of which turned out to be not as temp as I first thought, that I've now had to create C:\verytemp for the really temp stuff, which I make sure is emptied daily.
    • cabaalis 6y ago
      Some 20 years ago, when HD space was at a premium, I wrote a small script to clear out various temp directories in Windows 98. I tested the deployment on a colleague's computer, only to have him inform me that he used c:\temp as "temporary storage for projects I'm working on". Oh, well.
      • sfifs 6y ago
        I actually have a tmp on my desktop for this very purpose :-)
    • tonyedgecombe 6y ago
      If you go back far enough then calling GetTempPath() from the win32 API would return C:\Temp. It was always meant as a place for programs to put temporary files, not for users to stuff their garbage.
  • saagarjha 6y ago
    You joke, but I have seven git repository checkouts there right now. It’s a convenient place to put things I don’t want polluting my drive forever or being backed up, but need to exist on my filesystem at some point.
• dharmab 6y ago
  Anyone impacted by this who needs a new cloud-scale trash service should check out https://devnull-as-a-service.com https://devnull-as-a-service.com.
  • tenebrisalietum 6y ago
    This is a joke, but a real service like this could be neat. For example, it listens on all ports and returns a "null" response based on the typical service of that port. Not-very-well-thought-out-examples: http - Always returns 404. https - Always returns 404. ipp - Returns whatever IPP says for "printer not found" or equivalent. lpd - Takes data, does nothing with it. dns - Always returns NXDOMAIN. ident - Always returns nobody:nogroup telnet - Accepts any username/password/credentials, returns "This account is not available" and immediately exits. ssh - Accepts any username/password/credentials, returns "This account is not available" and immediately exits. smtp - Accepts message, doesn't do anything with it. pop3/imap - Accepts any login, always has 0 messages. irc - Accepts any nick, PRIVMSG or other commands, commands don't actually do anything. Returns null list of channels and users when queried. vnc - ? rdp - ? Etc.
    • unicodepepper 6y ago
      Considering that /dev/null always reports success on read and write, I'd imagine that http(s) should give a 200 with no payload.
• moioci 6y ago
  Like this? https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-11-13 https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-11-13