Continuing the discussion from XSplit installer removes directory junctions:
Here's a story from SO that I found quite amusing:
Here's a an entertaining tragedy. This morning I was doing a bit of maintenance on my production server, when I mistakenly executed the following command:
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /mnt/hetznerbackup /
I didn't spot the last space before /
and a few seconds later, when warnings was flooding my command line, I realised that I had just hit the self-destruct button. Here's a bit of what burned into my eyes:
So, the tool author adds a safety option specifically to protect against a certain class of accidental error, and for some unknown reason the user chooses to disable that feature, even though they very much did not want the thing that was protected against to happen? What will these crazy Linux people think of next?