Never ever run rm -rf /* on a UEFI system or you might brick your entire fucking system, including firmware.

I don't know how much of this can be considered data loss but one one of my uni classmates frustrated by some hellish tasks (cleaning some old code files probably) decided that everything in that particular directory won't be of any further need, so she procede to rm -rf it.. only to discover that the terminal opened in that dir was another one and her current one (the one she bashed that unforgiving rm) was in fact a standard freshly opened term where any term would open.. in the user's (only user) home dir... such a face she had when all her codes, homeworks, projects and everything went to oblivion 😂😂 jokes aside it was a good thing that the semester was almost finished, all hws submited and no important data was there as she dual booted with ubuntu and some windows, but funny thing how such a honest mistake can ruin not only your day, but maybe your entire semester

I like jokes with rm -rf but I think forkbombs need to make a comeback. Like, "My coworker said he forgot the name of a file. So I told him filenames are stored at %0. So just pipe that parameter to itself to cycle through all the filenames on your machine."