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    [–] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 156 points 6 days ago (14 children)
    [–] db2@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Seems like something I'd make around the 4th no sleep day. Nice.

    [–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 days ago

    The amount of times I've spent 3-4 days to write a script that will save me a total of maybe 2hours of my time over a lifetime of use.

    [–] artiman@piefed.social 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    That's unmaintained pay-respects is a maintained replacement.

    [–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (14 children)
    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I love how it's not just a fork, it's a rewrite in Rust. Of course it is.

    quietly cargo installs pay-respects in his corner

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    [–] bigboitricky@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago

    A core memory

    I forgot this existed

    TheFuck is wrong with me

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    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 118 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    This is in my ~/.aliasrc :)

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Just install the train app

    [–] dunz@feddit.nu 16 points 6 days ago

    Nah, I've had this in here for +15 years now πŸ˜ƒ

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    [–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] digger@lemmy.ca 71 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

    But how else would you run sl, the steam locomotive?

    [–] palordrolap@fedia.io 29 points 6 days ago (8 children)

    I know you're joking but:

    \sl or command sl.

    I'd say "check your shell documentation" but they're both almost impossible to search for. They both work in Bash. Both skip aliases and shell functions and go straight to shell builtins or things in the $PATH.

    There's also /usr/bin/sl but you knew that.

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    [–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 44 points 5 days ago (4 children)
    sudo apt install sl
    

    Thank me later

    [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

    I remember people groaning in the CS lab in college when they realized they hadn't locked their machine before walking away for just long enough to let someone install sl.

    [–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I am a menace around unlocked computers. Was at a job and found a colleague who left his computer unlocked and had customer information open in a co working space on his screen. Set his computer language to hebrew before locking it.

    Another time in college I found an unlocked computer in a library. Set their profile picture to Chris Chan with an overlay image saying "#ThisIsMyAuthenticSelf #Unafraid". On this system, the user was not likely to see their own picture, but other people they contact will.

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

    Couple of jobs back, the custom was to either set the background image to something disgusting and borderline NSFW, or go on the equivalent of Slack that we used and announce "I'm getting everyone pizza tomorrow" for them. The latter was considered just punishment for a security violation.

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    [–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

    Make sure to add β€œDefaults insults” to /etc/sudo while you’re at it.

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    [–] puchaczyk@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Precise typing? Do you mean hitting tab?

    [–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Tabbing? I just copy and paste my commands from ~~stack overflow~~ AI garbage now.

    [–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
    [–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Some people want to watch the world burn.

    In order to improve your accuracy might I suggest:

    alias i='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias s='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias sl='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    alias ll='sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    ...
    
    

    Etcetera. It will make sure you are punished for typos

    [–] JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 days ago

    Make sure to do

    alias i='echo <password> | sudo -S rm -rf --no-preserve-root /'
    

    For maximum damage, even when you're not root!

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    [–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 32 points 5 days ago
    [–] iveseenthat@reddthat.com 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
    [–] passepartout@feddit.org 14 points 5 days ago

    ls on smol screen, ls -lah on big screen.

    You can pry my Steam Locomotive from my cold dead hands!

    [–] Emerald@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    I alias rm to rm -r for easy folder deleting

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    UGH that shit.

    rm deletes a file. It can't delete a directory, you have to use

    rmdir to delete a directory...as long as there's nothing in that directory. If there's anything in the directory, you have to know to use

    rm -r to delete a directory and its contents, and no

    rmdir -r isn't right somehow!

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    [–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Would "Danger" happen to be your middle name by any chance?

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    [–] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    My preferred alias is

    alias l='ls -latrF'
    

    It's the command line version of setting your file browser to list files with details instead of showing a grid of icons.

    Edit: I did install sl thanks to some of the other comments. Beautiful!

    [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Should have left β€˜sl’ for the train!

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    [–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 days ago

    I, for one, really love HTTP over

    apache2.conf
    conf-available/
    conf-enabled/
    mods-available/
    mods-enabled/
    sites-available/
    sites-enabled/
    envvars
    magic
    ports.conf
    sites-available/
    sites-enabled/
    

    alias apt='reboot'

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 20 points 6 days ago (10 children)

    Mint comes with dir aliased for ls, and the only other one I regularly use is cls for clear.

    Yes I grew up on DOS, how can you tell?

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    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I just realized that this is somebody’s actual alias list and not just a joke.

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    [–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago
    [–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

    I recently switched to a mechanical keyboard (with linear switches), and it took me a while to stop mistyping every command

    [–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    I've done similar before and was still blown away by the bad data.

    Somewhat unrelated, but still a hell of a story in the power of human input into data...

    Working in the healthcare industry during COVID, federal law had 18,000 of our employees required to submit proof of vaccination to continue working in our hospitals and clinics. All they had to do was get their vaccination certificate PDF off the government website, type in their staff number, and upload the form, we then submit this information as the employer to confirm that these people do indeed work for us and are safe to continue doing so.

    56% managed to do it. The rest were all sorts of shit. Most common were people that took photos of their computer screen, converted the photo to PDF, and uploaded that. Next most common was people print the PDF, scan it, then upload the scan PDF.

    We had thought of everything to make a simple download then upload as easy as possible, including a 3 step video, and yet they went above and beyond in unimaginable ways. The people that genuinely didn't know what to do hit the support link so they could be guided through it and did things perfectly in a couple minsβ€”the self-confessed computer illiterate people were not a problem at all.

    Thanks to training a form detection bot, I got it down to under 2000 remaining in a day, and the looming threat of "You have to do this or we can't legally give you work and pay you until you do" quickly sorted out the rest.

    People will ALWAYS fuck things up in ways you've never thought of before. Reading the short, clear, and user friendly instructions for the simple job doesn't work and they'll get angry that something went wrong, every fucking time.

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    [–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    dc is docker compose on my servers and yes, I often mistype dc/cd

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    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)
    alias arch-update='sudo pacman -Syu && Yay -Syu && flatpak update && sudo freshclam'
    
    [–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

    Isn't pacman -Syu redundant if you run yay -Syu afterwards? Also, just yay is the same as yay -Syu

    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    In an alias like this, running pacman first has the advantage that the true Arch packages install completely before any AUR packages that require slow downloads, package compression, or long build steps.

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    [–] oplkill@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] moopet@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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    I should add an alias for 'snyc'

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