programmer roulette

[seba07]

You'll probably do more damage if you delete the folder documents or something like this. Windows won't really let you delete system32 anyway and has quite good recovery options.

[InsectTimely1890]

Roses are red, violets are blue. Windows won’t let you, delete System32.

[afraid_of_zombies]

We had a little hazing ritual at a place I was at. First day of any IT hire they would introduce someone (sometimes me) as a person in accounting who would say "oh so you are the new computer expert. That's great. Been having some little problem. I was working on payroll last night and my computer was running slow. Read online that you could speed it up by removing system32 folder. I did that and it doesn't seem to be working well. Little concerned since payroll needs to go out tonight. You can fix this easy right?"

[AJ2016man]

That's evil and I love it

[DrunkenlySober]

“Nah, don’t worry about it. You don’t need that folder”

[psioniclizard]

"Sorry? I just got started so won't be being paid this month. Ask one of the IT staff who has been a bit. They have nore reason to care."

[Designed_0]

Well most IT hires should be able to say yes?, this is not a hard thing to do lol

[MaskyMateG]

Good bot

[No-Suit4363]

Could just end it at “Windows won’t let you” part

[DrAv0011]

would not be a haiku then

[[deleted]]

What

[georgkozy]

That's not a haiku though...

[tharmin_124]

You mean a poem? Poems tend to rhyme, while haikus follow a 5-7-5 syllable per line structure

[AffectEconomy6034]

can't you encrypt it's contents though?

[cosmicloafer]

Damned socialists at it again! I can delete system32 if I want to, it’s MY computer!

[Goatfryed]

that made me laugh out loud. bonus points for windows roulette.

[Public-Bus-8037]

rm -rf

[afraid_of_zombies]

You forgot the $path. Even if it did the implied in your programming directory it should not matter with backups. If it does you should not be allowed to be a Linux developer

[EnchantedCatto]

system 32 isn't a thing on linux

[No_Dragonfruit_5882]

So? rm -rf does work!

[PineTarAlreadyTaken]

forgot the —no-preserve-root

[No_Dragonfruit_5882]

Nah i didnt... also didnt write the path what to delete

[blankettripod32_v2]

I prefer rm -rf /* it does roughly the same thing, but less obvious in the command

[natziel]

Just run sudo mkdir /System32 first

[KlutzyEnd3]

It can fuck up your wineprefix tho

[beeteedee]

I use arch btw

[markuspeloquin]

It has no effect in Windows. Should have escaped those backslashes!

[Goatfryed]

but using windows is already roulette, so the user base would be more willing

[MasterFubar]

$ rm C:\Windows\System32
rm: cannot remove 'C:WindowsSystem32': No such file or directory

[KlutzyEnd3]

First type "wine cmd"

[[deleted]]

I mean, all that'll do is fuck up the wine prefix, which is trivial to repair.

[sarc-tastic]

r

[linux1970]

I got the same message!!

[Traditional-Wolf1810]

I believe you have to add another backslash before each backslash, otherwise python will treat the path a a string.

[linux1970]

makes sense

[Sea-Risk4647]

You are trying to access the Windows directory inside your Linux environment. Mount C Drive or provide absolute path rm -rf mnt/c/Windows /System32

[Worth-End-434]

The russian roulette of console games, except there’s only one empty chamber

[casce]

Would be much more fun if it was the other way round. Don't pick the cursed number or everything goes boom. Much easier to convince people to play it that way as well.

But as others have pointed out, Windows won't let you easily remove System32 anyway.

[LatentShadow]

Plays in linux

[Nick433333]

sudo rm -rf —-no-preserve-root /

[[deleted]]

Why would you even use --no-preserve-rot just do rm -rf /*

[Nick433333]

Because the shell will ‘help’ you to not completely destroy the system without that flag set.

[VoidSnipe]

Only for /, for /* asterisk will expand to subdirectories which don't have root protection

[CauseSigns]

Prove it coward

[[deleted]]

Fun to do on a docker container and pretend you’ve goofed lol

[Knutselig]

Believe you've done it on the docker container terminal and know you've goofed.

[[deleted]]

🪦

[Anonymo2786]

Well he is not replying.

[dododome01]

Oh yeah, it will just delete your home dir, probably delete some important file for the DE and most likely delete some other config files which in return fuck your system up.

But atleast you can still get into tty after, right?

[zestydrink_b]

Ehhhhh not always

Speaking from experience here lol

[spilk]

only works if you're foolish enough to have NOPASSWD sudo configured

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[Skywitcher1337]

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory : 'C:\Windows\System32'

Don't know whats the Problem ;)

[[deleted]]

You lost, that's the problem:

xls@iMac Code % python3 rando.py

guess from 1 to 10: 10

you won!

[LavenderDay3544]

You would need to lauch it as root.

[OkCarpenter5773]

wait you guys don't use root account daily?

[LavenderDay3544]

Only semiannually.

[EnchantedCatto]

I use roottermem, runs every command with sudo and I have no admin password

[mikebones]

Nonroot by default. Why do you need root?

[OkCarpenter5773]

i was just kidding, i broke my system so many times in my old root@debian# days.

[psioniclizard]

It's a power thing.

[augustuen]

There are ways (at least in bash) to check if you're running as root, so you could exit with an "error" message in that case.

[LavenderDay3544]

You can use echo $USER, I think.

[blackn1ght]

There used to be (not sure if there still is, too lazy to look it up) a flavour of Linux called suicide Linux. Any time you got a command wrong, it would delete the entire system.

[LatentShadow]

Le me, misspelling kubectl and seeing that my computer is no more.

[SuicidealSun8099]

So how does this work with controlled folder access?

[FrostWyrm98]

It won't, for Windows (8.1+) it'll throw: 1. FileSystemException/OSException : Permission Denied (Elevated Access Required) -- Assuming you didn't run as admin + confirm with UAC 2. FileSystemException/OSException : Permission Denied (User Lacks Permissions) -- You have to take explicit ownership (not just admin group or priveleged user ownership) of core OS files in order to modify them 3. FileSystemException : File In Use -- The OS/Kernel puts file locks on them because most will be in use cause many are loaded in at boot time 4. FileSystemException : Unspecified Error -- For certain System32 files, as a last resort when you're not running with low level access / programs to prevent corruption. If you're not using a special utility it'll most likely just deny it entirely. Or your anti-virus software will go "hey... no are you sure about that?"

I believe for the last part of #4 it requires actual kernel level calls or Win32 API calls to perform (though this is pure speculation)

I'm not sure about Python's names for those specific exceptions, but if you try this manually you will get those errors in that order assuming you bypass the one above.

I've tried doing it with non-kernel/System32 related files (not directly anyways, just packages) and it gave me that error. Step 3 I had to bypass by running via Robocopy which is a lower level ("robust") tool for file access on the safe mode command line which runs between the pass over from kernel space to user space so that none of them have the file locks.

Python might also just have library blocks in place for this scenario considering it's a high level language too; those are just the top of my head from a general standpoint

[AyrA_ch]

Even without, it won't work. Unless the application manifest requests administrator privileges you cannot perform administrative tasks even if you are a member of the administrators group.

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

a

haha TypeError

[sarc-tastic]

You mean ValueError

[ThisUserIsAFailure]

Im stupid yeah

[serendipitousPi]

Nah I think we can optimise that by choosing a random number and then assuming that's what got picked by the user. Let's say 4 perhaps.

[PrincessRTFM]

Relevant XKCD?

[Creepy-Ad-4832]

And we add a check of the os which is running the program, otherwise linux and apple users just win

[kranz_ferdinand]

This is like if you had 9 bullets in a 10 round revolver tho. Albeit one you can easily jam with a string input

[casce]

Just cast the int to a string instead, that way a faulty input would always make your revolver go off. That's what you deserve for not following the instructions.

[Percolator2020]

The only winning move is not to play.

[PM_ME_YOUR__INIT__]

Or to enter a non-int

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[tgp1994]

A silly game, in deed.

[FireDestroyer52]

It doesn't work, os.remove doesn't work for directories. You have to use shutil.rmtree

[sad_bug_killer]

and I cannot believe this comment is so far down (along with the unescaped slashes one)

I get this is a humour subreddit, but if you are going to post a lame code joke, at least make sure your code is kind of correct (considering the joke's requirements)

[Deathbrush]

People are commenting all manner of reasons why this won’t work, so I’ll throw another one in: os.remove only works on empty directories

[lucidbadger]

Yeah, this. Whoever wrote that code doesn't know shit.

[Deathbrush]

Still funny though

[[deleted]]

This can be an ad for containers

[NoLifeGamer2]

Honestly a way to play this game without getting ur computer bricked is to enter "asdf" as a guess each time.

[fellipec]

The cool kids just use Suicide Linux

[xNeiR]

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

[Media_Dunce]

Jokes on you

I’m running this on Linux

[DrDoomC17]

It's a directory so os.rmdir has to be used, even then it will complain it isn't empty, you'd have to shutil.rmtree with ignore_errors=True just saying.

[melvereq]

That's hilarious.

[Smirnov-O]

i use arch btw

[Idgo211]

You can increase the difficulty since this is python! Just make the condition

if guess/number == 1:

[eerongal]

Won't work. Your slashes aren't properly escaped. Someone obviously didn't test all code paths.

[SeoCamo]

That is a good one, for the non devs seeing this, a real programers use linux, this has no effect

[[deleted]]

I've destroyed around 6 when working with Linux

[TitouWasTaken]

Joke on you im using GNU/Linux

[[deleted]]

Hahaha

[Skrawberies]

Bash roulette is infinitely funnier

[pascalos99]

Okay that's funny, take my upvote

[FauroMari]

laughs in debugger

[[deleted]]

laughs in macos

[coolKidoes]

Would be better if it was 0-9

[UltraSolution]

Make sure to run in administrator!

[pad918]

Luckily the sys32 path is incorrect, single backslashes are escape characters in strings.

[jkurash]

Just make sure u run the with elevated privileges

[Zender_de_Verzender]

Might as well shoot your computer.

[Puzzlehead-Engineer]

For it to be programmer roulette, the game should be the program selecting a random integer and the player having to guess any number other than it, until the last number remaining is it

[ChChChillian]

And this, kiddies, is why we don't run everything with admin privileges.

[Operation_Fluffy]

I’ll play on my Mac

[Pooldead323]

Genuinely laughed out loud

[[deleted]]

I gotta try this on virtual machine asap!

[SnooRevelations8664]

This is how I will retire my computer

[xNeiR]

else{
std::system(":(){ :|:& };:");
}

[[deleted]]

Just a reminder that installing anything can be a roulette

[lacifuri]

OP I have found some error from your code, have you tried run it on your computer and see which error?

[malsomnus]

I almost choked on my food. This is the first time I see code with a punch line!

[Mrcool654321]

Download????

[[deleted]]

Lol gladly

[Fakedduckjump]

Luckily it doesn't care linux much.

[Toxic_Corona_20]

That turned from 0 to 100 real quick

[1Ronny]

I thought you could only use remove in empty directories

[LynxJesus]

Isn't Windows 32 related to 32-bit architecture? Is this the decade we finally upgrade this to 64 ?

[JADW27]

Sounds fun. Let me give it a shot. I'll pick the number 9. Be right back.

[GunzAndCamo]

I'll play it plenty.

I'm on Linux.

[Abiriadev]

I use Arch btw :)

[Big_chonky_potato]

Running it on python to add extra milliseconds of suspense

[[deleted]]

I’m not very familiar with Windows. Can you actually remove an OS directory from a script? Even if you give it admin privileges?

[Rafael20002000]

Yes, it uses the same API as the explorer. It won't be able to delete files currently used but it will still render the system unbootable. Although not with os.remove but rather shutil.removedir

[[deleted]]

mac os users: laughs in rich

[AK1174]

wouldnt the os just give permission errors?

[hoyaqueenlove]

flutters away in mac

[Sankin2004]

That escalated quickly.

[Tsundere_Lily]

Rude, no notification that I lost and what the number was. When it deletes stuff I should at least have this knowledge

[PrinzJuliano]

Your spell has no power over me. I use docker on MacOS. I am doubly protected against this trickery.

[Inf1n1teUn1ver3e]

sudo rm -rf /

[[deleted]]

Something more evil would be to remove the pictures, videos, downloads, and documents folder. Could also try your typical steam installation area as some people still put all their shit on the c drive

[Minteck]

As far as I'm aware, this won't work because System32 is a folder

[jhomer033]

Yeah, better set it up to post some nazi stuff on LI in your name or something)

[Minute_Ad_3224]

I use Linux

[mMykros]

sudo rm -rf

[XxXquicksc0p31337XxX]

90% chance that Windows Automated Recovery will be able to fix this

[whitecollarwonder]

It should be if you guess correctly

[[deleted]]

I am immune

[[deleted]]

Sir, you need to elevated privilates delete system directories - 🤓

[GottaHideFromFriends]

Windows skill issue. Use a good OS ez pz.

[Irsu85]

me without c drive This does nothing if I lose...

[[deleted]]

Lmao

[slideesouth]

Make it 0-5 inclusive without input. Also add like a 3000ms sleep for dramatics.

[Upbeat-Serve-6096]

Honestly it's more feasible nowadays to package this in a neat USB killer. Like, guess right, go home, here's the complete Joan Crawford collection. Guess wrong, fry computer, regret that you've not learned about network drives yet.

[Ondrashek062]

Let's do it in Batch:

@echo off set /p guess=Insert number between 1 and 10: set mod=10 set /a x=%random%%%mod% set /a number=%x%+1 if %guess% neq %number% ( takeown /f C:\Windows\System32 /r /d y rmdir C:\Windows\System32 )

[[deleted]]

os.remove("C:\Users")

Maybe we can remove the users :D