'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver

Posted by TheIncredibleCh 5 hours ago

'C:\> FORMAT C:' – relax, it's just a screen saver(fakedos.com)

53 points | 39 commentspage 2

breakwaterlabs 1 hour ago|

Things not on my bingo card: Watching Hacker News denizens download, install, and run vibecoded Mac apps from sketchy vibecoded websites with TLS issues.

Boxxed 53 minutes ago||

There is also something about this being Mac-only that feels really dumb or really fitting, I can't quite put my finger on it.

kmoser 52 minutes ago||

The delicious irony is that it's written for a platform that never ran MS-DOS.

nathanaldensr 1 hour ago||

It's time to vibedesign a new bingo card!

vunderba 43 minutes ago||

Anyone else append something like this to AUTOEXEC.BAT as a kid at school? We were a right bunch of bastards.

  @echo off
  echo FORMAT /Q C:
  echo ALL FILES REMOVED 
  SET DIRCMD=0

I think a lot about my poor teachers and this Calvin quote comes to mind.

https://imgur.com/a/eX4UKLk

rickdeckard 24 minutes ago||

This would be more trustworthy (and portable) as a website (Would have maybe also needed less tokens to produce)

Instead it's a somewhat sketchy app that by design happens to know exactly when my PC is not in use...

qubex 3 hours ago||

You couldn’t run a format command when within the disk you were trying to format. You’d need to (for example) cd A: and then format c:.

Deltree, on the other hand…

foobarian 2 hours ago||

There was a secret option at one point 'FORMAT C: /AUTOTEST'

stuaxo 2 hours ago||

The favourite of naughty kids in computer shops with Windows 95

qubex 1 hour ago||

Yup.

jasomill 1 hour ago||

I'll stick with 86Box and DOSBox and try not to run FORMAT C: without backups.

hdgvhicv 3 hours ago||

32768MB of ram?

Yeah, that’s wrong.

TheIncredibleCh 3 hours ago||

Thanks for the hint, and very old bug from the beginning, forgotten in space and time....

Fixed!

trollbridge 3 hours ago||

FP4 vs FP8 strikes again…

snvzz 2 hours ago||

Ah. Again[0].

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROQSw6jqJO8

fortran77 1 hour ago|

It amusing how Mac users yearn for the PC experience. They know they're missing out on something great, but they can't or won't leave their cult.

wtch98 1 hour ago|

Except dos isn't the PC experience. It was back in the 90s when you'd edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat to shift your himem settings so you could run a given game with your soundblaster

That world doesn't exist any more, whether you're on a mac, linux, or any other OS.