It's not clickbait. The Linux version of Steam consisted of a binary, as well as a script called steam.sh which could be used to launch Steam. There actually was a line in that script with a comment above it saying # Scary!. The script was not supposed to rm -rf the entire hard drive, but if something went wrong, exactly that happened.
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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y
This could have been an article
njordomir@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Yeah, I'm sitting next to someone and I don't loudly watch YouTube next to others. Guess I'll never know how Steam did it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I was in bed next to my sleeping partner and under a cat. Guess I'll I've in ignorance
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 15 pts · 2y
Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org · 11 pts · 2y
This is old news that happened a few years ago from what I remember.
Bug has since been fixed.
HotPurplePeach@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ok, thanks for the info. I started freaking out :D
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 1 pts · 2y
Horrible horrible clickbait image - immediate downvote
Dehydrated@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
It's not clickbait. The Linux version of Steam consisted of a binary, as well as a script called steam.sh which could be used to launch Steam. There actually was a line in that script with a comment above it saying
# Scary!. The script was not supposed to rm -rf the entire hard drive, but if something went wrong, exactly that happened.scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · -2 pts · 2y
Didn't say the content was, the image itself is clickbaity.
stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi · 12 pts · 2y
Well, it's not if it's the actual code Steam shipped with on thumbnail.