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submitted 1 month ago by gi1242@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

or be boring and alias sl=ls

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[-] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 89 points 1 month ago
[-] generallynonsensical@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, that's going to be installed tomorrow.

[-] CtrlAltDyeet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 month ago
[-] generallynonsensical@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I saw it wasn't maintained, after I posted. Was pretty bummed. Thanks for this!

[-] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I thought this was going to be about "the fuck"

[-] nick@midwest.social 55 points 1 month ago

Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars" Boss: "The wat?"

[-] nick@midwest.social 15 points 1 month ago

In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!

I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.

[-] j4yt33@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Sounds like a horrific, stressful job. How do you cope with that?

[-] nick@midwest.social 9 points 1 month ago

I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.

Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.

[-] j4yt33@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Sounds quite a lot like working in science actually. Just better paid, I'd imagine

[-] nick@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.

And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….

Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago

The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.

If you typed sl and actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you got

[-] growsomethinggood@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!

[-] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oof. Were they found and removed from the org?

[-] nick@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.

Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 30 points 1 month ago

If we're sharing silly useless projects, I quite like "activate linux", the configurable watermark inspired by "Activate Windows".
It's unfortunately not a strictly terminal based goof, but wanted to share anyway.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 points 1 month ago

This isn't useless. It serves a purpose.

It's for interns who fat finger commands to force them to slow down and be more intentional and verify their commands before pressing enter.

[-] msage@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago

So I installed this way back in the day on my prod corporate VMs. I was still green, and any prod issues would shake me so much, it was too stressful.

I taught myself to relax when the locomotive pops up, take a few deep breaths and go on.

It was super effective. I learned to not get so flustered, and stopped messing commands due to adrenaline. I no longer install it anywhere, but it still puts a smile and a wave of nostalgia when I see or hear about it.

Such a small thing, yet it helped me grow so much.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

Installing SL is part of my standard cloud-init config.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

sl | lolcat

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I would get slightly amused every time I typed "lust" instead of "list" as a kid in applesoft basic.

[-] SkyeStarfall 4 points 1 month ago

...now the question is do we want to implement a command for that

steam locomotive

rolling down the track

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 1 month ago

i sure am glad i use yakuake widescreen

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago

That's a lot of choo-choo'ing

[-] vvv@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

don't forget to install gti

[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 6 points 4 weeks ago

Not a mistake but a fun reminder that the terminal can be a very fun place!

 fortune | cowsay -f stimpy
 _________________________________________
/ Poverty Jet Set:                        \
|                                         |
| A group of people given to chronic      |
| traveling at the expense of long-term   |
| job stability or a permanent residence. |
| Tend to have doomed and extremely       |
| expensive phone-call relationships with |
| people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to   |
| discuss frequent-flyer programs at      |
| parties.                                |
|                                         |
| -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X:     |
| Tales for an Accelerated                |
|                                         |
\ Culture"                                /
 -----------------------------------------
  \     .    _  .    
   \    |\_|/__/|    
       / / \/ \  \  
      /__|O||O|__ \ 
     |/_ \_/\_/ _\ |  
     | | (____) | ||  
     \/\___/\__/  // 
     (_/         ||
      |          ||
      |          ||\   
       \        //_/  
        \______//
       __ || __||
      (____(____)


[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Find the lady in red with cmatrix -a -b -r

Or watch Starwars

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

[-] BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Blinkenlights appears to no longer exist :(

[-] mcchots@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Still works do me.

[-] Maiq@lemy.lol 1 points 4 weeks ago
figlet "Linux Rocks!"
 _     _                    ____            _        _ 
| |   (_)_ __  _   ___  __ |  _ \ ___   ___| | _____| |
| |   | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / __| |
| |___| | | | | |_| |>  <  |  _ < (_) | (__|   <\__ \_|
|_____|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ |_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\___(_)
                                                       


[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 month ago

I love dev work like this. Computers should be fun again.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

this is perfect

[-] TerHu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

im currently baking this into our hpc. people gotta see the train!

[-] NamelessGO@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Does anyone know the "prank" repo that would delete Linux system (or Windows) when an wrong typo ran?

[-] dx1@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

alias l="ls", I'm immune to this problem

[-] nshibj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or ll='ls -laFh' to have it just how I like it

[-] carrot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

This is exactly the type of thing I love.

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Ah yes. When you need to slow the fuck down.

[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Lately for me it’s been “ks”

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