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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard (www.theregister.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard::US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why you should write rm /path/to/dir -rf ; and not rm -rf /[cat jumps here]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Some linux greybeard wisdom right there

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Other than cat jumping, you can just accidentally hit enter all by yourself, it's a well-developed reflex for all of us.