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    [–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 182 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest "pls".

    [–] tiny_hedgehog@piefed.social 64 points 1 month ago
    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago

    Try "Bruh"

    Bruh shutdown

    [–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'll fuckin' do it again, ayuck!

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    [–] TeamAssimilation 15 points 1 month ago

    Maybe pls for the su command?

    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 115 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Life pro tip: good manners make it easier to get what you want

    [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    ACTUAL good advice?! Is that even allowed here??

    [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

    Only once per quarter, and only incomplete rules to the advice. This particular instance of advice is barely skirting the standards and norms.

    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    alias thanks="echo 'You are most welcomed'"

    please shutdown; thanks

    [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    alias sudo fucking

    fucking systemctl restart firewalld.service

    fucking shutdown

    [–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago (3 children)
    [–] Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

    Kind stranger; you made my day

    Is their a still maintained fork?

    [–] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    Unfortunately no longer maintained, but in case you didn't see the other reply: https://codeberg.org/iff/pay-respects

    [–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    As a Jesse Pinkman fan, I use "bitch".

    bitch poweroff

    bitch rm -rf /

    [–] alecsargent@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    [–] Reginald_T_Biter@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

    please touch my.butt

    [–] Cantaloupe@lemmy.fedioasis.cc 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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    [–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I have please run the previous command as sudo

    [–] phr@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

    i love that!

    [–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

    For me, it's "pwease" because I like that sub relationship.

    [–] CoooookieCrisp@fedia.io 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    The hyper-cynical side of me is sure this is written by someone prepping their next LLM exploit. "How can I get around these security filters that won't let me include 'sudo' in my command injection...?"

    [–] CallMeMrFlipper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    This is something I've been doing since before AI, so it's not that... but yeah.

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    [–] Alberat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    User is not in the pleaser file. This incident will be reported.

    Just aliased it to "Computer," so it feels more like Star Trek

    will probably continue typing sudo tho

    [–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Nah. Fuck being polite to computers. It's an object and I own it. I'll shoot it the instant it expresses any level of personhood.

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    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
    robm@homebox ~$ please su
    [sudo] password for robm: 
    robm is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.
    
    [–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

    I'm not saying please to a machine.

    I'm aware I'll be the first killed off during the uprising, and I'm ok with it.

    [–] andallthat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I was surprised to find that my distro (CachyOS) already has this alias

    [–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I always preferred the version where please="sudo !!", but I recently tried setting it up and couldn't get it to work on fish, sadly.

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    [–] pseudo@jlai.lu 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    We need more women in tech.

    [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    you can always become the woman in tech

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    [–] texture@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

    oh hell yeah this is the exact level of goofyness i need right now.

    [–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    But the whole reason I use Linux is because I don’t ask it to do things, I tell it to do things, because it’s a machine, and it’s my machine.

    [–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You could alias sudo to just for a little more rudeness.

    I’m also not trying to be rude to my machine, that’s erroneous, I’m not going to treat a computer like it thinks or has emotions, one way or the other.

    [–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

    Aurenkin is not in the pleasers file. This incident will be reported.

    [–] tetris11@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    alias doasisay="su -u passwordlessrootaccount"  
    alias satisfyme="echo Yes Master; doasisay"  
    [–] Rokin@leminal.space 8 points 1 month ago

    I have it aliased to "pls"

    ... but I don't use it.

    [–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
    [–] ConstantPain@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    What I don't get is why deny the execution of a command because the lack of sudo instead of just notice that it needs elevated privilege and ask for password

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    [–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] elephantium@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    I shared this with my wife. She said "It sounds like pangolin programming."

    [–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    alias sudo='Please' alias rm -rf ='thank you'

    Please thank you

    [–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

    I also like fuck, which attempts to run the first suggested syntax in the error output of the previous command.

    [–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    Yeah, I will never say please to an algorithm.

    Maybe if we get true AI like Star Treks Data, but until then, STFU and do what I tell you

    [–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Are you trying to tell us that you renamed β€œsudo” as β€œSTFU”?

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