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What if the tool required an "un-safeword" to do destructive things? "Do you really want to 'rm -rf /'? Type 'fiberglass' to proceed."
by aappleby 8mo ago
What if the tool required an "un-safeword" to do destructive things?
"Do you really want to 'rm -rf /'? Type 'fiberglass' to proceed."
- nthdeui 8mo agoLike tarsnap's --nuke command: --nuke Delete all of the archives stored. To protect against accidental data loss, tarsnap will ask you to type the text "No Tomorrow" when using the --nuke command.
- drougge 8mo agoProbably inspired by Vinum's "NO FUTURE" for destructive operations. (Vinum was a raid system used on older versions of FreeBSD.)
- jabroni_salad 8mo agoThere is a package called molly-guard that makes you type the computer's hostname when you are trying to do a shutdown or restart. I love it.