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ACTUAL good advice?! Is that even allowed here??
Aurenkin is not in the pleasers file. This incident will be reported.
alias srsly="sudo !!"
Mor leters, pas
In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".
Or icanhaz
gooby pls
Maybe pls for the su command?
I have please run the previous command as sudo
i love that!
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
please shutdown; thanks
I know this is a meme and not GitHub, but I thought some people might like to learn that if you do please shutdown && thanks it won't say you're welcome if the shutdown failed
alias sudo fucking
fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service
fucking shutdown
alias thanks="You are most welcomed"
you need to use the echo command if you want to echo something:
alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"
(the inner single-quotes are not strictly required in this case, but recommended nonetheless)
Huh yeah my bad, wrote this too fast in-between two messages at work
robm@homebox ~$ please su
[sudo] password for robm:
robm is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
We need more women in tech.
you can always become the woman in tech
I also like fuck, which attempts to run the first suggested syntax in the error output of the previous command.
I prefer an alias that actually reflects my feelings.
alias didistutter="sudo"
alias didistutter="sudo !!"
I'd recommend this version so you don't actually have to repeat yourself.
FWIW, using a shell function is preferred (according to Bash docs) and probably a lot more flexible, and less dangerous. No, actually, anything in Linux can be dangerous.
And while I'm also in the camp of trying to make the Basilisk happy, I doubt it's going to work.
Any superintelligent AI that will extrapolate the past to judge my actions and my innermost thoughts and attitudes won't be impressed by obeisance. Tell Roko what you really think, and have some self respect. Those Less Wrong types really miss the mark with all that shit.
Works really great if you compile sudo with insults enabled: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/blob/70c1ee4b44f5b15822919c05ffbde857fa879e48/plugins/sudoers/ins_classic.h
Maple Linux needs to get this baked in.