@feliks ai is the future
@feliks stopped thinking indeed
@aks @feliks it didn't even start thinking tbh
@feliks I accidentally created a '~' directory some time in the past
@flo @feliks Same here. I think I ended up using a GUI file manager to get rid of it. 
@RachaelAva1024 @flo @feliks tab completion is your friend there :)
@sotolf @RachaelAva1024 @feliks and if you press it twice you get an cheering CLI 'ls \~/'
@flo @feliks I created $HOME. Then I learnt the difference between rm -rf "$HOME" and rm -rf '$HOME' 😅
@feliks "stopped thinking" feels like an appropriate label there 🤣
@gedankenstuecke @feliks I’m glad it stopped thinking.
@feliks “if you thought for 2 seconds…”
@feliks it doesn't respond with emojis
@feliks 🧠 Stopped thinking

@feliks how do you delete that directory

EDIT: Just reply without realizing that your reply is below.

@joe @feliks rm -i -r ./\~ to be extra extra safe. If you trust your backups, you can chance rm -r \~

I would probably first change into it, delete everything in it, back out, and rmdir \~ it.

@hp @feliks Would I need that for this website, it probably doesn't have access to the home directory
@joe @feliks I get the feeling I'm missing something. >.>

@hp @joe @feliks Why not rename the literal ~ directory to something normal first, and then deal with it as you would deal with any normal directory?

That should just about eliminate the chances for a catastrophic result a typing mistake can have in any destructive command.

@joe @feliks mkdir deleteme
mv './~' deleteme
ls deleteme
cowsay "check your work"
rm -r deleteme
Tilde Expansion (Bash Reference Manual)

Tilde Expansion (Bash Reference Manual)

@joe @feliks

$ python3
>>> import os
>>> os.rmdir('~') # Python does not expand ~ unless explicitly instructed to

@AVincentInSpace
It's not that Python doesn't follow the alias. You're calling os.rmdir(),
Which just tells Python to ask the operating system to remove a directory by the explicit name of ~ on its behalf. 
@joe @feliks open file browser - right click - delete
@feliks Yeah I too stopped thinking right there after two seconds
@feliks "Stopped thinking" indeed...
@feliks Clearly, the singularity has begun
@hosford42 @feliks "All of the AI bots took note, quickly applying their new knowledge, and triggering what is known today as 'The era of cascading deletions.'" - from the future masterpiece, "A Child's Garden of Mistakes"

@feliks

Stopped thinking? It never started

@feliks I guess they‘re ready to take over now?

@feliks

I can hope, and even believe this might be satire, but it's 50/50 really.

If it is, it's pitch perfect. No notes.

@feliks

thought for 2 secondsSaaame

@feliks 🧠 Stopped thinking

relatable

@feliks how to delete others toots
@feliks No ChatGPT, you should do sudo rm -rf / first

@feliks

Running teams of junior devs for lots of years, I should probably write up a contingency plan for this.

@sergio_101 @feliks Reminds me of the time when a filer ran out of space, and my manager wrote to the junior sysadmin that he should delete the directory of a former colleague after copying it to another (slower) filer.

And the next morning, that admin apologized for having missed the part after "after" because of an unlucky line break ...

@feliks Kids, don't try this at home!
@feliks
Read mail really fast.
"Eventually, the chatbot stopped thinking."

@feliks Reminds me of the time I had a file named foo.txt whose contents were

foo.txt: file not found

I wanted to find out what was in this file so I typed “cat foo.txt” and got myself mighty confused for a little while.

@feliks I got a shot of adrenaline just reading that last line...
@feliks "stopped thinking" sure is right

@feliks This line from Calvin's Mom lives rent free in my head:
https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1d7suga/calvin_what_are_you_doing/

“And Susie, it’s mean to take advantage of kids with no common sense.”