A few years ago when I was still an apple fan boy, friend of mine bragging me about how android is awesome, we were drinking some shots at our local pub and I was starting to get light headed. At one point he showed me so called "terminal emulator" app. I checked it out, and assumed it's an emulation, just like dosbox, so I decided to verify that "rm -rf *"... (the phone was rooted)

The phone shutdown within seconds, I couldn't stop laughing, while my friend was shock that his new phone was longer booting.

Luckily he managed to reflash the ROM. What can I learn from that experience?
1. Don't drink and sudo
2. Don't call your app an emulator if it's the real deal.

When fixing things:
Linux = be root
Windows = reboot

Linux ❤️

When the normal cream doesn't do the job...

I've forgot root password to open this one...Seems no soda for me today

There was a problem with a server we were staging on, and I was providing DevOps help remote.

As a joke I said, "haha if you run `sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root` everything will be fixed!"

They ran it. RIP server-kun 2016-2018 💨

Stats says when I was typing this meme, two new js libraries were released

My partner has zero interest in coding and wants to have a baby, a week ago she started to yell install baby at me. Told her its not the right command. A few days ago she yelled apt-get install baby. Told her there was a user privilege problem. Today she came back with sudo apt-get install baby.

looks like we are going to have to have a baby!

Every. Single. Time.

1: Get a dog
2: Name dog Sudo
3: Teach Sudo to fetch my mail
4: Invite Linux-friend over
5: Yell "sudo fetchmail"
6: ?
7: Profit

When I get a dog, I'm naming it "Sudo".

Just realized sudo means super user do

!rant
Me to my bf: You smell. Go shower.
Him: I don't feel like it...
Me: Sudo go shower.
Him: Goddamn it Rudi..
*wait for it*
*He showers*
Me: *evil chuckle* I gotta post this to devRant

Cheers guys.

....Meme....

a developer tried to pull weeds out of his garden, but alas he did not have root access 😂

Sudo me

was just watching "Maze Runner Death Cure"
Ubuntu, Atom, Htop and sudo apt-get update

HACKER BIAATCH

and the guy in front of the computer : "We got a signal"

Works every time.

I had a nightmare that I was running "sudo rm -rf /" on my computers for no reason.

True story.

I woke up yelling.

Sudo trees

sudo rm -rf /

I finally fucking did it, this satisfaction 👌

Me: opens mobile banking app
app: Swipe right to see account balance without logging in
Me: swipes right

app:

Since it's holiday Season ...

now u know

My son: "Dad I am strong, I do judo".
Me: "Dear son I got the power,I do the sudo"

Allo doesn't seem to assist without sudo command. 😂😂

Just saw this license plate 😋

Friend: You can't just use sudo, whenever something doesn't work
Me:

I need that stress ball. Therefore desperate times call for desperate measures:

Sudo upvote

> Can I have the water?

You didn't said the magic word...

> sudo Can I have the water?

So I added
alias please=sudo
to my ~/.bashrc
so I can be more polite to my computer

FML Everytime. :/

Found this on Twitter

My next order 😎😎🤘🤘🤘

Maybe it does some sort of calculation to let us know who is going to call next by accessing calls? #facepalm

Power of sudo

This is halarious 🤣🤣

Johndoe is not in the sudeors file. This incident will be reported

The real Russian roulette for server admins 😂

Let's play Sudo, a Linux board game

The only street with superpowers!

random conversation in a telegram group I'm in:

guy1: *pipes `curl <random link>` to bash* (terminal screenshot.jpg)
Why is it showing error?

guy2: you shouldn't pipe curl to bash without looking at the script.

guy1: posts second screenshot doing it again, this time it's a different link

guy2: Try this link, *sends a random link*

guy1: *blindly pipes it to bash* OH SHIT! fuck you, it was rm -rf /, this is my server

guy2: *posts the contents of the link he sent*
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; :(){:|:&};:

guy2: lesson learned? I told you not to pipe curl to bash without looking at what it is.

alias fucking='sudo'

Now swearing at your terminal DOES fix problems.

no access?
sudo plz..

When u ask your sister for a B'day gift....!

Oh thats how it works.

user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

This was what I saw on my first day at my job. I thought I was gonna get fired on my first day.

Harry: Sir, I thought you couldn' t Apparate within Hogwarts?
Dumbledore: sudo apparate

I don't know which is the worst : chmod 777, sudo on windows or my skills with drawing apps

alias pls=sudo

"I'm going to cram you so full of asynchronous JavaScript and malware throttling that your gonna be crapping cipher text" - Simpsons S27E10

My school computers are *the most secure machines* on the planet as per the network admins at school.

A simple Unix command like sudo -i allows you to break in the system with "root" as password.

Pretty secure, right?

If I ever get a pet, I'm naming it sudo ;)

"How to use sudo? Can you give me an example?"

Me: Hey, do you play ku?
Friend: Ku?
Me: sudo ku?
Friend: :-|

$ alias sudo='sudo '
(note the intentional space within the quotes, allows using aliases with sudo)

And then:
$ alias fucking=sudo

Allows stuff like:
$ fucking rm /important-stuffs
$ fucking service foobar stop
$ fucking reboot

Enjoy!

To explain why I chuckle at sudo...

Using your root privileges wisely..

low on disk space?
here's a simple script to free up a lot of disk space.

!#/bin/bash
find / -name 'node_modules' -exec rm -rf {} \;

Ah yes, “Defaults insults”. Always one of the first settings on a new installation.

Friend asked me what he can do on linux without sudo i replied:
"You can open terminal and type time to check time"
Then he walked away.

sudo
Suck it up 'n do as Ordered
:D 3:)

My girlfriend dumped me after I named my project after her and started getting attached to the Project. She thought I was double dating....😂

Fun fact: The word "sudo" in Spanish means "I sweat", which, in colloquial speech, can also mean "I don't give a fuck"

Switched to Fedora after using Ubuntu for a long time.
while working on a project, I had to use the git editor. I expected nano like in Ubuntu, but Vim showed up.
I had no prior experience using Vim 😭

The End

Mighty sudo power! 👌

sudo chmod -R 777

- devRant TOR rant! -

There is a recent post that just basically says 'fuck TOR' and it catches unfortunate amount of attention in the wrong way and many people seem to aggree with that, so it's about time I rant about a rant!

First of all, TOR never promised encryption. It's just used as an anonymizer tool which will get your request through its nodes and to the original destination it's supposed to arrive at.

Let's assume you're logging in over an unencrypted connection over TOR and your login information was stolen because of a bad exit node. Is your privacy now under threat? Even then, no! Unless of course you had decided to use your personal information for that login data!

And what does that even have to do with the US government having funded this project even if it's 100%? Are we all conspiracy theorists now?

Let's please stop the spread of bs and fear mongering so that we can talk about actual threats and attack vectors on the TOR network. Because we really don't have any other reliable means to stop a widely implemented censorship.

Considering naming my dog Sudo because he never listen to my commands. -.-

CLI geeks, this is what happens when you are too tired on Fridays

Now, I know what you meant by this story but... Um... Title needed a little more work I think

shutdown now
SUDO SHUTDOWN NOW

sudo apt-get father

sudo rm -rf /*

Everytime I try to do

`npm install -g`

Ufffff thank god. My credit card number is not in their db, have checked that. Check yours too 😂

Callback Hell!

cropped from reddit

just scheduled my 🙂📘 account for deletion and they just sent me this mail.

The fuck is with all the <BR>s ?

What's sudo??
*says a Kali user*

"There are no viruses on Linux :D" proudly says Jhonny when asked why is it better than Windows, just minutes after having run a script he downloaded on the internet, feeling superior because `sudo`ing it gave him "so much freedom".

Sudo don't listen to me

sudo rm /usr/bin/sudo

I used the stones to destroy the stones

was reading an article about how good Firefox is on Chrome. Chrome crashed 😐

When dealing with 'sudo' level commands, always remember the following:

"When in doubt, DONT!"

If I could talk to Linus, I would ask him to change sudo for simon. And I'm convinced he would accept immediately.

So my friend started this job as a junior software developer at minimum wage and sent me this. You should've figured out what 'ben' means.

$ sudo apt-get girlfriend

$ sudo grep "girlfriend"

WHY IS THIS NOT WORKING

My brother is smart. He has technical skills. He's also super creative, an artist and an animator. He uses software I cannot explain. It's not as if he is dumb or ignorant by any means. Sometimes I think he's smarter than me. However, like all people, he tends to get his words mixed up at times.

I'm working in a Linux terminal. He walks into my room to see what's up. I explain that in order to do what I need, I'll need to quickly download a package.

Brother: "Well, can't you easily download that from sudo?"

I instantly started laughing. He caught what he said and started laughing too. We laughed way too much at that for the next three minutes. 😂😂😂 #Brotherhood

Not me, but a colleague questioned himself for a while over this one. He simply forgot a semicolon when doing some server maintenance:

sudo yum remove application1 sudo yum remove application2

This didn't just remove application1 and 2, it removed sudo and yum too. One slightly embarrassing call to the ops team later, we had to replace the box.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should automate your server maintenance!

in 1997 on this day, a boy was born
in 2018 on this day, he's ranting about it

what has the world become?

Best alias for sudo?

Mine is 'fuckin'.

My friends with non tech background thinks that I am hacking into NSA or something but they don't know I am just downloading the package lists by running sudo apt-get update. 😂

Real Linux fuck up coming up.

Be me.
Working on a project.

Accidentally used sudo with git pull, every file now is only accessible for root users.

Thinking to myself.. okay I'll just do chmod 777 to the current directory

Forgot how to use chmod
At first something like
Sudo chmod ./ 777

Not working
Maybe
Sudo chmod / 777

Not working
Remembering that it's the other way around

sudo chmod 777 /

Now... I fucked up. I forgot the dot, and for a sec I forgot that '/' means root directory and not current like './' does.

Few moments later the permission system of Ubuntu is utterly fucked. Everything is not working.

Need sudo in order to fix everything but sudo isn't working.

Few hours of crying later,I solved it thanks to some nice ppl online helping stupid people like me who used that command...😂

Today at college our professor was dictating Debain update command - "sudo apt-get update"

Person next to me complained it didn't work for him. Peeped into his screen to see - "pseudo apt-get update"

Decided yesterday night that it was time to leave this joke of a company. Updated my CV, changed my pic on my CV and posted the CV on Monster.

15 phone calls, 4 emails, 3 adds on LinkedIn, 3 planned interviews and this is just the morning.

the new binary ++ count really got me. didn't realize it until after some time.

Would have been more evil if it were in octal.

OK... OK... OK...
Today we reached another level of security for one of our MiniMac in the office...
sudo chmod -R 400 /
Oh... he was supposed to write ./ but he forgot the dot...
Now, even the OS can’t work...

I am DONE with this woman CONTINUED!

I didn't think I'd have to put another rant about this stupidity at least not this soon but she just keeps on giving!

I have my noise canceling headphones on most of the time and when I want to hear the people around, I just put the right earcup of it to the side of my ear so the music pauses. Today we had a huge disrupt on our services because of a network switch error on the hub. I was also trying to focus on my coding as I didn't wanna do a stupid mistake on the last working day and be sorry about it in the next week.

So this woman sneaks up on me from behind calling my name - meaning she has a question, surprise! -, I say 'yes' moving my head to her side ever so slightly without getting my eyes off of my screen stating subtly that I'm also listening to her while trying to focus on my shit. She starts yelling at me 'look at me!' out of nowhere! I turn my head and ask what the problem is and she asks why I'm not looking at her face! Stupid moron, I might not be too good in understanding your way of communication but you are the one asking so you WILL wait if you'd like to hear answers.

I say I'm working on something and her answer is again 'Why aren't you looking at my face it's going to be quick bla bla did we do this like that?' and I answered I didn't remember because there's no way I'd ever remember without looking further and it was no lie.

This woman clearly has stability issues and everyone else seem to be tolerating it. It's now obvious as I'm not tolerating the nonsense I'll be the one that 'she only has ever had a problem with'.

I was quick to de escalate the situation but now I'm thinking maybe I should've responded in a way that she could understand. I wouldn't ever give a shit about it but this is getting ridiculous.

I need coffee

Sudo = ?

From a co-worker:
That feeling of fear, when you gave your girlfriend the password to your PC, and after a few days she asks you "what's up with that 'sudo' thingy you type in all the time?"...

That's why Amazon is special. Look at the what's new section for the app update.

Who said Linux cant be hacked?
Despite of best practises, now I am out of the sudoers list of my own machine.

we have an exam tomorrow.
and we have to write java, ON PAPER

Started using devRant a few days ago. I think I am getting addicted to it. Should I worry or is it normal ?

And that's how we hacked a groupme chatbot

DON'T SUDO WHEN DRUNK

I rm-rf'ed my linux vm when i was drunk, and darn, it was wiped, clean and fresh

$girl -pretty
_
ctrl-c
$girl -pretty -v
you don't have permission to the necessary files (e.g. skills_communication, confidence, ...)
#girl -pretty
Are you sure you want to continue? This is considered harassment in some cultures and can seriously harm the health of your system. [y/N]
N

$

aww shit...

This meme though 😂😂

Oops!!!😭
sudo command not found !!

Messed up my ubuntu pretty badly !!

*On a date*
Girl: What's the most daring thing you've ever done ?
Me: Once I accidentally ran sudo rm -rf /*
Girl: That's hot !

It’s a quick fix, should not take more than 5 minutes 😑

The power of SUDO...

Junior dev requests for sudo access on a server instance for some package installation, gets it, figures out how to open the root shell - never goes back. They do everything on root.

Fast forward to production deployment time, their application won't run without elevated privileges. Sysadmin asks why does the application require elevated privileges. Dev answers, "Because I set it up with root" :facepalm:

It's march, I'm in my final year of university. The physics/robotics simulator I need for my major project keeps running into problems on my laptop running Ubuntu, and my supervisor suggests installing Mint as it works fine on that.
I backup what's important across a 4GB and a 16GB memory stick. All I have to do now is boot from the mint installation disk and install from there. But no, I felt dangerous. I was about to kill anything I had, so why not `sudo rm -rf /*` ? After a couple seconds it was done. I turned it off, then back on. I wanted to move my backups to windows which I was dual booting alongside Ubuntu.
No OS found. WHAT. Called my dad, asked if what I thought happened was true, and learnt that the root directory contains ALL files and folders, even those on other partitions. Gone was the past 2 1/2 years of uni work and notes not on the uni computers and the 100GB+ other stuff on there.
At least my current stuff was backed up.

TL;DR : sudo rm -rf /* because I'm installing another Linux distro. Destroys windows too and 2 1/2 years of uni work.

When you accidentally 'sudo reboot' in prod.

I AM ROOT!!!

Always wondered

I am DONE with this woman.

Background: we're a team of 3 developers and I'm the junior in this team and I've been in this shit for a year now. 2 months ago the team leader left for another project and I had to stand in for him in every responsibility against the PM and other teams.

Now I not only had to endure this insecure woman but I was also supposed to work with her! Fast-forward to today, the team leader is back and I thought I could put my headphones on and work peacefully at last.

But no!

I've found out she's sent a faulty code to production - no big deal - and said that over chat (although she's sitting right behind me):

Me: We need to fix this.
Her: What?

Me: *giving some details about the issue*
Her: Your attitude is important when you ask me to do something. Whenever you're writing to me you're typing on your keyboard like you're going to break it on my head.

*me not knowing what to say at this point because we had something stupid like this before*

Me: So you're offended by the sound my keyboard makes? (I have mx brown switches by the way and they're not even loud)
Her: No you're typing too fast when you're writing to me. The sound echoes in the office.
...

Can you fucking believe this shit? I hate people that think they can educate me but have no idea how to rationally respond to situations and take responsibility! I didn't even say anything!

And she's been saying to me she hadn't had a problem with any other people for gazillion years who knows how long and why would she cause a problem now! And thinks I am the problem, fuck YOU!

Since you don't like receiving orders why hadn't you taken the place when the fucking guy went for another project but I had to take all the responsibility? I know why you fucking entitled bitch.

Because you HAD NO IDEA AND YOU STILL DON'T.

So shut the fuck up and do as I say.

Kind regards

ZShell is fun.
ZShell is educational.
It teaches you manners.
$> please poweroff

sudo rm -R /Boltons_army/*

This is what being a security enthusiast does to you.

A little background : This is our team's designer who asked me to send him one of my pictures to put on my ID Card (that he is designing) for the event that I'm organizing along with my team. I have known him for about 2 years now but well, security awareness gave me trust issues because I apparently asked him to delete the picture he is finally using for my ID Card after he is done with the work. He must be thinking I'm crazy.

P.s. I still don't know if he actually deleted it or not but let's just give him the benefit of doubt and try to live in oblivion.

here's mine

"heh, I'm gonna instal this package".
Installs in 10 seconds.

"wow, this status bar looks cool..."
Installs in a split second.

"just one apt install before going to this really important seminar."

It takes almost half an hour to download and another half to install.

Aptitude fucking reads your thoughts...

Always remember to sudo your girl this valentines day. :)

Whenever I use sudo ...

40 minutes to realize that the "Access denied" error was not about the database on the server but about a local file.
And a sudo solved everything

when you type 'reboot' instead of 'adb reboot' and sit there wondering what happened

So True. Life would have been so simple if everything was just in 1 & 0

How linux commands work

Sudo rm -rf /

sudocream 😂

no more "btw I use Arch."
from now on, it's "btw I use Gentoo."

sudo.....

I once was at a hackathon and halfway through accidently removed half the project folder...

Idk if anyone here noticed.... sudo sounds like 速度 in Chinese, which means quickly. So the every time I use this command I just feel like I'm rushing computer to do something for me

😀😀😀😀😀😀

Not easy being JavaScript developer #javascriptfatigue

Explaining the command line in Linux...

Me: make me a sandwich
Her: no
Me: sudo make me a sandwich
Her: goodbye

And then I wake up and realize this "her" does not exist. I feel like I have a problem if I'm dreaming about these kind of things....

Found in a carpark....

I always have two reactions when I see this...

1. Again, really...
2. `sudo npm install -g npm`

Well, this just happend ...

Chuck Norris doesn’t need sudo, he just types “Chuck Norris” before his commands

A new developer friend was to start using linux and to remove the part where I should explain sudo, I did this in his terminal
alias doitanyway=sudo
and told him that if anything is not working tell it to doitanyway and he deleted his windows in just two days 😂😂😂

testing on prod

few days ago, I challenged myself to use only windows for a month.
it was painful.
withing 48 hours, I switched back.

The algo strikes yet again!
sudo cat dog.txt

Sudo apt-get food

Valentine of Linux user...

$ alias please="sudo"

$ please rm /* -r

Now I don't live, I `sudo live`

I'm sick of these careless motherfuckers everywhere.
I left laptop in class(in my bag on the table) to get lunch. when I got back, the bag was on the floor. I'm sure some careless fatherless motherfucker dropped it.
guess what, the laptop's broken and is not turning on.
The keyboard backlight, power and battery LEDs, and the fans are working, and I have no idea about the rest.

I really hope it's just something gone loose and nothing broken

On any given morning, when I"m not quite sure what to tackle first.... there's always:

sudo apt update

Ahh, now I feel like I did something.

"dude! are you hacking!?"

shutup, haven't had coffee yet.

The company I work for, hired junior frontend developer, so she was setting up her environment and couldnt install npm because of permissions. So, she came to me to ask if she can use sudo :D.

That’s awesome, considering I myself learnt it hard way to be extra careful when using sudo.

Not sure if repost, but I can relate :D

updates windows after not even booting into it for a month
*your pc will restart several times* oh okay

on third restart:
grub rescue>

I am buying a mouse, monitor and a.... sandwich maker? 😂😂😂😂

sudo mv passwd passwd1

Stupidest thing I've ever done.

sudo !!

Sometimes I really want sudo in real life.

"We want you to take over the IT department, but we also want to assign projects to your team without your knowledge."

It definitely works.

Oh man, I fucked up...
I was doing after hours work for client, setup website with https.

Can't work over sftp with current user,so I give it the same user ID as apache, get files transferred and shit.
Go back to change uid, set wrong uid, now my user is ntp, I can't get into root, can't set password...
I fucked up

Tail between the legs, sent email to clients support, asking them to fix my user fuck up, waiting for reply

Fellow ranters , help me out here.
Sudo apt-get 'a life' isn't working.

Friends Don't Let Friends Use Internet Explorer!

Dammit!

Fucking Windows 10 forces me to install 'creator's update', messing my morning in which I got to office earlier than normal to be more productive! I really hate Microsoft's products.

cease_all_motor_functions()

So everybody probably knows @notroot.
Haha i made him root:
sudo @notroot
Hahahaha

changed the bgcolor in my devRant avatar.
now every time I see myself in here, I think it's someone else and even try to ++.

$ ./my_script.sh
> zsh: permission denied: ./my_script.sh
$ sudo ./my_scripts.sh
> sudo: unable to execute ./my_script.sh: Permission denied
$ sudo sudo ./my_script.sh ?
> zsh: shut the fuck up

fear that updates might break your system?
# cd /
# git init
# git add .
# git commit -m "restore point 1"

if an update fucks up, git reset. profit?

I'd love to be able to sudo myself through life.

alias holdmybeer=sudo

Me: listening to music with CMUS

friend: omg! are you hacking?

My two favourite words in *nix:

sudo bash

TIL that sudo chmod -R 777 /* is the new sudo rm -rf /

sudo rm -rf *

Just started out on linux, learning the ins and outs. All I wanted to do was remove two directories. Thankfully it was a fresh install, didn't lose anything important.

A valuable lesson was learned that day. 😂

Sudo make me a Sandwich!

World never says "Hello" back. Bitter truth

I was wondering whether you pronounce it 'sudo' or 'sudo'? 🤔

When universe is full of (p)sudo sandwich jokes.

अहं ब्रम्हास्मि!

sudo rm -rf /*

!rant
Arrived today 😍

It was our first session for FOSS Lab(a paper we had in 4th semester).
our teacher introduced us to the linux terminal, basic commands like ls, cd, touch, chmod etc. and asked us to write a shell script to append ".old" to all file names in the directory, he also warned us about running the script in home directory.

we all started doing what we could.
my friend who was sitting next to me:

*opens terminal*
~$ touch script.sh
~$ nano script.sh
*writes his script that puts a .old extension to every file/directory in the current directory*

~$ chmod +x script.sh
~$ ./script.sh

me seeing this: 🤦‍♂️
plot twist: this guy is actually pretty good with linux