No Sudo
Earlier this year, the internet learned the hard way that even tech giants are just one rm -rf /* away from chaos. Picture this: A Cloudflare engineer, just trying to do some light digital housekeeping, accidentally typed the tech equivalent of “Delete All My Problems”… and boy, did it work. I have to imagine it looked something like this:
Engineer: “Let’s just clean up a few old config files—”
Project Manager: “Wait, why is the entire internet blinking out like a Christmas tree in a power outage?!”
Turns out, /* isn’t a suggestion—it’s a digital Thanos snap. One second, Cloudflare’s humming along; the next, it’s the Y2K we never actually had. Websites worldwide went “poof,” and sysadmins everywhere simultaneously felt their souls leave their bodies. Ouch! Lesson learned. No sudo on Fridays.
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