My submission to the "shortest horror story" competition (not a real competition; also, the plot is banal and highly predictable):

sudo rm -rf .cache /

@nina_kali_nina
I started to colour code my root sessions after I typed "mv * ~/backup/2002" into a root window in the root directory, instead of a user session in last semester's work directory.

Rebuilding after that _sucked_.

@silvermoon82 @nina_kali_nina That seems very familiar. 30 years ago, on the company mail server. My first real fuckup 😅
@agturcz @nina_kali_nina
Oh nooo! At least mine was my personal machine!
@silvermoon82 @nina_kali_nina Fortunately, I had a freshly made full backup, capability to restore it, and still some time left on the night shift before people came to work. But yeah, I remember this feeling of "oh, fuck, what I should do now, THINK!" 😅