This entire thread is giving me flashbacks to my junior dev days and forgetting a where clause when updating/deleting database records
ah! yes … little bobby tables we call him.
For the new folks.
There are ten thousand of them after all
We’ve all done that at some point.
That sinking feeling when your quick update doesn’t return immediately.
Good to get into the habit of wrapping your queries in a begin transaction/rollback until you verify the result 😁
I was never able to fully form the habit with transactions. The guardrails I use are writing the where clause first and keeping my query tool in read-only mode for prod connections and only disabling it once I’m sure I need to make a change.
Here’s an infamous one:
https://hackaday.com/2024/01/20/how-a-steam-bug-once-deleted-all-of-someones-user-data/
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
Another classic
Jeez. Didn’t hear about that one, back in the day… wow.
Linux Gaming has had some interesting moments
“Just a prank bro!”
“typo” :D
What do you mean? Hitting space while typing out a path is very much a typo. Am I missing something?
They’re jokingly implying it was intentional
yeah you missed the joke i guess
Explain the joke! ;-;
“hahaha ubuntu users take this”
I… see.
I think I had accidentally deleted /bin with that script I had made when I was testing debian https://github.com/BlastboomStrice/3rdPartyAutoUpdater
