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Oh! Then perhaps the long press required for the iPhone’s action button to trigger is a Molly guard! Also, perhaps `rm` should be molly guarded to move things

by jiehong 7mo ago

Oh! Then perhaps the long press required for the iPhone’s action button to trigger is a Molly guard! Also, perhaps `rm` should be molly guarded to move things to the trash on all systems by default, and delete only if forced to by a flag. Note: I’d have expected Molly to be a cat, because they tend to be pretty good at disrupting things in my experience.

denkmoon 7mo ago
rm has mollyguarding, that's why every invocation of rm you see on the internet is followed by -f
- yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
  I think that may be a combination of (IMHO unfortunate) factors: * Yes, on some systems rm is aliased to rm -i by default. * Some scripts will use rm -f because normal rm returns an error if the target already doesn't exist but -f doesn't care. * Finally, sometimes files are just ... I think it's being marked read-only that does it? I've hit this while trying to rm a git checkout; you actually do need to add -f sometimes to succeed. So if you just add -f then it'll always work.
Modified3019 7mo ago
Seeing long presses implemented for those intermittent and irreversible actions in games is something I‘ve always appreciated. I often end up making errant inputs, especially on keyboards. A guard I often make for myself is removing/disabling the delete key on my keyboard, and setting FN+Backspace to Delete with whatever control software is involved. I often then repurpose the delete key location to F2, which is typically used to “Edit” a spreadsheet cell or file name.
- bookofjoe 7mo ago
  Red team demur: I HATE the iPhone's long press requirement to restart from off. To me, a button that forces me to wait for an unknown and indeterminate period of time before functioning is a FAIL.
yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
> Also, perhaps `rm` should be molly guarded to move things to the trash on all systems by default, and delete only if forced to by a flag. Not all systems, but some (RHEL, I think?) default alias rm='rm -i', yes
- fragmede 7mo ago
  disk space is cheap these days alias to mv to trash for an extra layer of protection.
  - toast0 7mo ago
    I prefer regular snapshots; I snapshot hourly. You can still miss something, but the window is small.
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by jiehong 7mo ago

denkmoon 7mo ago

rm has mollyguarding, that's why every invocation of rm you see on the internet is followed by -f

yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago
I think that may be a combination of (IMHO unfortunate) factors: * Yes, on some systems rm is aliased to rm -i by default. * Some scripts will use rm -f because normal rm returns an error if the target already doesn't exist but -f doesn't care. * Finally, sometimes files are just ... I think it's being marked read-only that does it? I've hit this while trying to rm a git checkout; you actually do need to add -f sometimes to succeed. So if you just add -f then it'll always work.

Modified3019 7mo ago

Seeing long presses implemented for those intermittent and irreversible actions in games is something I‘ve always appreciated. I often end up making errant inputs, especially on keyboards. A guard I often make for myself is removing/disabling the delete key on my keyboard, and setting FN+Backspace to Delete with whatever control software is involved. I often then repurpose the delete key location to F2, which is typically used to “Edit” a spreadsheet cell or file name.

bookofjoe 7mo ago
Red team demur: I HATE the iPhone's long press requirement to restart from off. To me, a button that forces me to wait for an unknown and indeterminate period of time before functioning is a FAIL.

yjftsjthsd-h 7mo ago

> Also, perhaps `rm` should be molly guarded to move things to the trash on all systems by default, and delete only if forced to by a flag. Not all systems, but some (RHEL, I think?) default alias rm='rm -i', yes

fragmede 7mo ago
disk space is cheap these days alias to mv to trash for an extra layer of protection.
- toast0 7mo ago
  I prefer regular snapshots; I snapshot hourly. You can still miss something, but the window is small.

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