Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoGoogle's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failurewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square161linkfedilinkarrow-up1721arrow-down114
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minus-squareBrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63arrow-down1·1 day agoSometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
minus-squareiamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40arrow-down1·1 day agoDidn’t work for me. Had to add && sudo reboot
minus-squareAssassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·1 day agoI love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
minus-square Morphit @feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoHmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo reboot
minus-squareSomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agoIndeed. We don’t want to preserve the “Radically Overused Obsolete Term” Database
Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
Didn’t work for me. Had to add
&& sudo rebootI love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You’re essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo rebootIndeed. We don’t want to preserve the “Radically Overused Obsolete Term” Database
This is the way 👌