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		Novosell 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of wh... Yeah, rm -rf. If you decide to let a stochastic parrot run rampant on your system, you can't act surprised when it fucks shit up. You should count on it doing so and act proactively.

weberer 8 days ago [–]

`rm -rf /` will refuse to delete the root folder. You can see an example of it doing that here.

https://phoenixnap.com/kb/sudo-rm-rf

Novosell 8 days ago | | [–]

This was the D drive though, not root, ie C drive. So rm -rf would happily delete it all.

digitalsushi 8 days ago | | [–]

this is not always true. this is a dangerous fun fact to memorize.

and i don't mean because there's an override flag.

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