The Worst Typo I Ever Made

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[@TomScottGo]

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[@asilo-]

i am so cool

[@brendanmccabe8373]

Tom Scott 1 week ago

[@TheElvisnator]

Video: *_31 seconds ago_* Tom Scott: *_1 week ago_* *_Wait, that's illegal. Tom Scott is a confirmed time traveller?!?_*

[@TheElvisnator]

Tom Scott be like: *_The laws of time are mine_*

[@ender4344]

͔ it must have been unlisted before and now it's public

[@DarthChief1995]

Calling Tom a "Content Creator" has a whole different meaning for him.

[@strawberrydog3270]

content

[@human_bing]

content

[@param6727]

Content

[@ytho7432]

*C O N T E N T*

[@gokaytaspnar1355]

Content

[@OsaPL1]

There is an old saying in programming: "You either do backups already, or you gonna start doing backups"

[@fadetounforgiven]

I've known that as: "there are two kinds of people, those who have lost data and those who are about to lose it".

[@Katniss218]

@@fadetounforgiven also "There are 2 types of people, those who make backups and those who are going to"

[@SIGSEGV1337]

Or you accept the mortality of data

[@miguelstorani8643]

"There is only 10 types of DB admins, those who already make backups, and those who will make backups"

[@Lovicide]

That saying should NOT be used in regards to only programming. It will save you a lot of regret later backing up videos and images and important documents to the cloud, because once that hard drive dies, it's dead and has taken that storage into the ground with it.

[@Volumixen]

So there was one of these in a D&D rulebook. They had used Find/Replace the word "mage" with the word "wizard". This made funny instances, like damage being changed to "dawizard"

[@rogervanbommel1086]

That’s a awizarding example of ducking autocorrect

[@alnoso]

must've created some nice mental iwizards

[@residentracist3210]

Teferi moment

[@Anonymous-df8it]

I would have done " mage ". Notice the spaces on each side of the word? 🤦

[@rogervanbommel1086]

@@Anonymous-df8it nah, use a REGEX

[@lukaphoenix1568]

the amount of second hand stress I got watching this video is wild. I'm impressed you're actually able to tell this story to literal millions of people

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Same! Gotta wait a bit for my blood pressure to settle back down a bit.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Had to like this, exorcise that Satanic 666.

[@rbland]

I came here to say this exact thing. Very stressful to watch! I remember modifying a person's HDD partition and loosing everything. Luckily I was able to recover the lost partition after hours of research

[@marelizekeyter6824]

Absolutely!! Pulse still didn't return to normal even 3 minutes after watching!

[@Twisted_Code]

living vicariously through someone else's suffering

[@jackie2877]

gotta say 5000 articles containing only the word “content” just sounds like a high-effort shitpost

[@loscheninmotion9920]

Yes

[@ColinTheShark]

low-effort* Only needed a typo :D

[@SheldonCooperTrooper]

content

[@shakeheap3231]

content

[@reirizqi184]

content

[@nofu5658]

"I replaced all 5000 files with content" "What's the problem then?" "With 'Content' " "Oh."

[@Rx7man]

I replaced them all with 'content' instead of `content`

[@anonym3]

No.

[@rileyl2046]

second

[@stasyandr563]

@Pk Shaz that's literally what it means :D "oh no second"

[@heyyou9472]

@@stasyandr563 ha, nice one

[@rodedogad]

Every young engineer needs a "oh ____, I'm going to dry heave into this garbage can for a minute, then never make this mistake again" moment. I'll never forget mine.

[@tacticalAneurysm]

what was yours?

[@alexeyeliseev6322]

​@@tacticalAneurysmguess we'll never know...

[@user-li5lx3vi8o]

@@alexeyeliseev6322 tough

[@webwolfy7310]

I just had the worst onosecond of my life, it involved a panicked client on the phone and a lot of potential loss of data, but everything ultimately turned out fine because this video made me decide to make a backup before I got to work. (I'm not being dramatic, remembering this video is genuinely what made me reconsider and make a backup anyway). It was a ordinary system update that had no right to brick the whole system, but thanks to you Tom it only really cost us 30 minutes of downtime.

[@Twisted_Code]

friends don't let friends forget to do a backup.

[@janstransky442]

There are two types of people: those who backup, and those have not lost data yet.

[@abhishekanil99]

Can confirm... Source: Lost my data once and now have multiple versions of files I need

[@gemstonegynoid7475]

I used to have tons of gigabytes of downloads in my pc/downloads folder. There was some useless file right on this upper folder, and it came with an uninstaller. I activated the uninstaller to delete this old software. The uninstaller proceeded to delete every single file in pc/downloads. Instead of specifically deleting it's related files, it deleted everything in the directory. I was unable to restore anything except some thumbnails of images. Nowadays, I constantly always download stuff into new folders, never in a root directory. So if anything needs to be deleted I just delete the folder, not use any uninstaller.

[@TrigramThunder]

or, you know, people who just don't have any valuable files that they'd care got deleted. my storage systems are always near empty from all the constant OS reinstalling which absolutely gets me used to not relying on any important information being stored there. so a storage failure is to me about as inconvenient as a fly on your screen might be to you. perks of digital minimalism.

[@kannietanders2653]

I always think about back up but never do and never lost my data yet hopefully never

[@muchimuchi1222]

I'm the second.

[@FoxDaOG]

I literally thought “onosecond” was the worst typo lmao

[@aikslf]

same lmao

[@koxukoshu]

same here

[@nazibabdullah5845]

Same

[@D3rMesaa]

Yess

[@FoxDaOG]

Shahmir Hassan my my, how can I resist ya?

[@jonathansmithCrabAuthor]

Considering the specific typo that caused the whole mess, you could say it was an… _apostrophe catastrophe._

[@maximilianmustermann1278]

Badumm ts

[@FewVidsJustComments]

Capastrophe

[@adiaphoros6842]

Catapostrophe

[@pixel_chip0]

content

[@grandmabiscuits]

this just reminds me of the one time that one of the entire toy story movies was deleted accidentally by pixar but it was ultimately okay because one of the artists had made a copy of the ENTIRE THING and brought it home to work on it (which was Very Not Allowed, but it ended up saving their ass) and they were able to resume work with that.

[@zombieslayer1468]

is it now allowed?

[@star2705]

@@zombieslayer1468 Almost certainly not. The NDAs they have their animators sign are WILD. That's like, fireable offence x10.

[@bentabac531]

The artist in question was taking care of her newborn child, so it made perfect sense for her to work from home

[@Twisted_Code]

funny enough, I was just returning to this video, which I had seen previously, because I remembered it when watching a video about Pixar almost losing the entirety of Toy Story 2. this is the third contrived coincidence I've had today. It's been a weird day.

[@PlatinumJug]

This person was also fired recently from Pixar for something, but idr why

[@johnbradley2343]

On the other hand, a whole website where every article just says "content" is hilarious.

[@RustOnWheels]

This page intentionally says content

[@Felixr2]

There's a lot of content on this website

[@Varksterable]

@@RustOnWheels My terminal sessions all start up with the prompt; "> This terminal window is intentionally blank." "cls" puts that text back, too. I think it's best to be clear about things like this, just in case anyone else is looking over your shoulder. "This page intentionally says content" is to my mind a lot clearer than just the single word 'content'. So the fix to past-tense-Tom's problem is quite clear to my mind...

[@willprae2992]

I heard you like content. Here's some content for your content.

[@poppers7317]

@@willprae2992 I put content into your content now you can have content while reading content.

[@yashasvik2958]

I love how onosecond looks like one second has been misspelled

[@beans9288]

i thought that too, when it came up on screen i thought that was the typo

[@EchoesOfArson]

MysticalMisfit Same

[@sebastianfors4491]

it's the "oh no" -second

[@hellothere2052]

I am Yashasvi and my under the breath reaction

[@pr6800]

OnO wots dis?

[@davidbarts6144]

Back in the floppy disk era, I would grab grad students' thesis disks and announce I was going to degauss them, thus permanently wiping all data from them. If they would panic in terror (many did), I would say that I was just joking about degaussing, but maybe you should make backups of your precious data. That was after more than one grad student had to retype their thesis because a massive floppy failure had caused it to be lost. If the data is important enough to panic over the thought of losing it, it is important enough to back up.

[@Twisted_Code]

That is diabolical. This chaotic approach to teaching is among my favorites because emotional stress is a powerful motivator for learning. The main issue with it is fatigue, but for backups I think it's justified.

[@davidbarts6144]

@@Twisted_Code After two grad students had to retype a thesis because they kept only a single copy on a floppy that went bad, I decided I was doing them a favor by scaring them into making backup copies.

[@amadeokevilus4566]

I saw a physical copy of "The Lord of The Flies" that had every instance of the letters "iv" replaced with "ChapterIV"

[@BassicallyKiyash]

omfg😭😭

[@feepentertainment6752]

I can safely say ChapterIVe never made a mistake like that before.

[@BeinIan]

Once I was ending an email with "Regards," and realized how close the "t" and "g" keys are to each other.

[@TennessineGD]

This made me laugh out loud. Thanks for sharing it

[@dani2541]

Made me laugh

[@funky_tree]

Funny, did laugh

[@vDorgengoa]

I don't get it.... I must be regarded...... ....Ragher hithly for my innocence and humor....

[@scodal8636]

That is hilarious

[@cubedeglace]

I once deleted 27 TB of offsite backups because I didn't read the text next to a checkbox. We spent a week on the road going to every client to copy their backups on hard drives and another week to copy everything back to the server. Now I read everything before clicking "next" and make a conscious effort to pause and try to understand what I am doing... Those onoseconds follow you all your life, haha !

[@BriManeely]

Wow... bad luck, buddy

[@unnath1762]

F

[@cubedeglace]

@@BriManeely Unfortunately it wasn't bad luck but like Tom said : overconfidence. I should have asked my colleagues for advice :/

[@Hxrb]

Are everything okay now mate?

[@autohmae]

Luckily it was just offsite backup so no data was lost people needed ?

[@Tomsonic41]

My worst one was when I was working on a server, and decided to use the console to get rid of all the GIF files in a directory. I wanted to type "rm *.gif" but I didn't let go of the shift in time, and the command became "rm *>gif". That means 'delete everything in the directory and log output to a file called gif'...

[@SRHMusic012]

The splat (*) is dangerous with root privilege. There are some nasty surprises when logged in as root in some systems, too. I don't recall on exactly which one, but the current directory dot (.) can be crawled upward in a recursive command, as the parent directory dot-dot (..) is matched by ./.*. Weird behavior, but very bad in some cases, e.g. removing or modifying dot files: rm -r ./.*

[@abbyh5158]

It's funny to me that you never point out that the backticks weren't even necessary. You were showing off by being extra safe and that enabled your mistake.

[@zhuofanzhang9974]

Alternate title: How I once became the most efficient content-producer.

[@negirno]

Literally!

[@doctorinthezone3494]

HAHAHAHA

[@sergey1519]

'content' producer

[@amphioxusanniversary]

Took me a moment XD

[@JJ-rm7jw]

I read this before I watched the video and didn't get it until I watched it... Well done. 🤣

[@penguin_meat]

"The sort of lesson you only learn once" Tom, you underestimate my negligence.

[@MatthewMilton]

Tom should I quit youtube my friends keep making fun of me for it

[@hiccups6531]

tom, you underestimated my ignorance

[@speedstyle.]

yep, i've had this exact feeling maybe three times in the last six months.

[@hallehuckleberry]

i think you’re overconfident in your negligence. a very dangerous combination for typos...

[@FlyingDominion]

Then you haven't actually learned it.

[@JoshLeRose]

Worst moment I had wasn't actually a typo, but still fits the theme of "always have a backup". I was working on a huge arrangement of various songs from a popular television show at the time. It was going to be a gift to a friend that he's (hopefully) have his HS's band play at some point. Well, after working for at least 4 hours straight adding all kinds of notes, edits, and other things, I was about halfway done with the whole thing (I had worked on it for about 6 months before this). Well, I was working on all of this on my laptop in 2014, and my laptop was from a few years earlier (2010 I think): earlier enough that it still had a user removable battery. I had recently replaced the battery since the old one lost its charge capacity. What I didn't do, however, was made sure that the battery had been locked into place. So, I save the file after all this work, and slide the laptop off my lap and put it down on my bed to get a soda or whatever. And... yup you guessed it. The battery came out, shutting the whole thing off, and RIGHT in the middle of saving an entire day's work. I didn't even realize until I came back with my soda. So, I put the thing back in as fast as I could, and boot it back up. I see that my file was still there, but when I go to open it... ERROR: This file is corrupted and cannot be opened. After panicking internally, I remember that I did have a backup on an old hard drive... from over a month ago. I still had the file, but now, over a month's hard work was gone. Still haven't gone back to that file 8 years later.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

The reason why even something as NTFS doesn't do move operations. It does copy and delete operations. And only in the end after everything is done does the old file get deleted. If you have a power loss in the middle of operation you don't end up with two half files and a tiny piece between them missing.

[@xyrissavage4983]

UGH reminded me of that time in the middle of an online music theory exam the pc crashed while i hit the key for a minim so i ended up just submitting over 70 bars of just single note minims sobbing

[@ImoowhenIPoo]

Something I got told during IT school over and again was "kein backup, kein mitleid" which basicly means "no backup, no compassion/pity for you"

[@RFC3514]

Video title should be: *Tom Scott, 'content' creator.*

[@MartinFinnerup]

Totally underrated comment.

[@matheustran8009]

I am content with this

[@Yalikejazzboi]

Your comment is great content.

[@alexandertoucan4956]

Content

[@raajan1568]

@@Yalikejazzboi grow up bender

[@canisferus]

"There are two types of people in this world. Those who make backups, and those who will start making them."

[@whippercream8998]

Version history in google docs does this. Saving multiple backups based on the time you edited.

[@PeterNjeim]

@@c0ldc0ne what about the other 1000

[@blunderbus2695]

@@c0ldc0ne And those who didn't know that this joke was actually about ternary.

[@vkvo2000]

There is the third type of people: the one who makes backups of backups that fail to recover.

[@RWBHere]

@@PeterNjeim Subtle, that. Thanks for making my day. 👋 😉 👍

[@ursulap.6722]

The "not wanting everything you ever do to be saved" discussion reminded me of the time I was at work, regression-testing and conversing on Twitter & Facebook the side to give my brain the occasional break. I copied a snippet of the Twitter conversation with the intent of pasting it to my Facebook friend but when I saw that my Facebook friend was AFK, I went back to regression-testing. And that's how "Tbh I've always kind of had a thing for [insert kink here]" got pasted into a regression test spreadsheet that everyone on the QA team had access to -- as far as I know, I Ctrl-Z'ed quickly enough that Google didn't save it, but hoo boy was it close.

[@rledoux99]

My brother and I didn't speak for 2+ years because of a missing *_hyphen_* - it was the difference between _"re-sent"_ and _"resent"_ . . . as in, _"I resent that email"_ rather than _"I re-sent that email"_ . . . 😣 When we finally realized the mutually-silly mistake we'd made, we had a good chuckle... but our relationship hasn't been the same ever since and it's looking like I'll never see him again. 😢 Details matter.

[@sofiac6911]

thats sad, i hope you both come around... maybe try a little more?

[@maybeanonymous6846]

what does "resent" mean? english is not my main languagr

[@ariannasv22]

Gosh, how important was that email?

[@VestinVestin]

> _"Details matter."_ So does error correction. Upon seeing a single detail out of place, sane people seek clarification instead of making a sudden and confident mental swerve.

[@rledoux99]

@@VestinVestin oftentimes, errors aren't obvious.

[@TianyuQi]

I thought the typo you made was typing "one second" as "onosecond"

[@MandMs05]

Same. I was so confused as to how it would be so bad.

[@puzzLEGO]

I make that mistake a bit 😂

[@zofiadoesntneedwithstand4672]

Same

[@ortherner]

I thought it was nanosecond

[@muabyt7333]

Ortherner same

[@g4l1l_buckz35]

Guy: loses a race Guy: oh no, second

[@user-lb4fr2ly4b]

heehee

[@karthik.b1309]

Great

[@requiem165]

Ahahahah

[@verdantbf]

I've never laughed so hard

[@Trebinhas]

Underrated

[@USN1985dos]

That is the worst feeling ever. I remember at one point in grad school I'd been working on a paper. I'd procrastinated, as usual, so I spent most of the night in the student lounge at the library working away. I'd gone maybe 5-6 pages since my last save and decided to take a break. I got up to go down to the coffee shop and ended up seeing a friend and chatting for a while. When I got back, my battery had died. I plugged it in, restarted it, and there was nothing. I had to beg for a one-day extension from my professor, but it was a lesson I learned well.

[@jayzz212]

why is birthday bot feeling like this

[@plcflame]

There's another way to tell this: "Hey, I made the database a lot lighter and fast"

[@safe-keeper1042]

Angry volunteers: you deleted all the content from our 5000 pages!?!?! Tom Scott: ono, they all have content, see, it says right here on each sheet...

[@nerd_nato564]

@Sam Sharaf Right now? 36.

[@kushmoosh4171]

Also this will be my last day.

[@Alexus00712]

@@kushmoosh4171 on earth? Is there a need to worry??

[@raminatox]

@Sam Sharaf Yes

[@emmaj8337]

Onosecond: when you’re hagrid and you realize you shouldn’t have told them that

[@rubeushagrid4525]

I can relate

[@limejelo]

Why am I the only one laughing my ass off at this

[@maximusmaro5259]

MinerMaster you’re not the only one

[@allentolete5534]

Not many potterheads now that JK made Dumbledore Gay.

[@youssefr]

"I should NOT have said that...

[@IAmCyklus.]

birthday bot moment

[@randomwastaken]

I love how while watching a Tom Scott video, you can’t skip a second without missing so much.

[@SteveMould]

I broke out in a cold sweat half way through this. I had a boss once who did find and replace on a massive document that changed "I" to "we" because it was supposed to be written from the perspective of the company not the individual. There were gems like "socweal mobwelwety". It couldn't be rolled back for some reason.

[@bassam_salim]

Just replace we with I again, what can possibly go wrong?!

[@EdwardMillen]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@Healermain15]

@@bassam_salim Just make sure to remove every other author from the mentions, or people might get confused!

[@arfansthename]

"Playing the Wii" becomes "Playweng the Wwewe"

[@dusklunistheumbreon]

This reads like uwu-speak. I love it

[@sean3533]

Tom Scott “content creator” since 2003

[@yahwehagape]

Content "content" content content

[@poobman6]

Content??!! CONTENT CONTENT!!!!!

[@Nickelodeon81]

Con Tent

[@mlggamingpro2578]

Predicted KZbin

[@dunkrez]

Content.

[@mythrimax]

My heart dropped when you explained what had happened. That must have been horrible

[@paoloose]

I love the fact that this belongs to 'The Basics' playlist. Teams need to understand that no matter how defensively you code, humans make errors, and that is a constant factor that needs to be taken into consideration.

[@daviddavis4885]

My worst typo: Accidentally writing “the controversy over the Best Wank in Israel” on the top of a PowerPoint.

[@first-last557]

i was laughing for a solid half minute

[@puffnisse]

What?

[@GoogleAreDumb]

It's rare I genuinely belly laugh out loud. Your misfortune made it happen.

[@thohangst]

A Spoonerism for the ages

[@memebro8703]

Dr.Barrel They probably meant to say West Bank.

[@MaxTheDragon]

When you work in a company, there is also the wasntmesecond when your colleague right next to you has an onosecond.

[@babablacksheep3950]

Especially when that colleauge want to throw you under the bus.

[@SodAlmighty]

@@babablacksheep3950 Or a bunch of buses glued randomly into a diary?

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

Seeing a huge fuckup happening and knowing it isn't in any way your fault is one of the sweetest feelings there are.

[@chnacr2]

Shaggysecond?

[@dysennn]

whoeversmeltitdealtitsecond

[@BendySnowball]

8:28 The same can be said about Chernobyl. Its always a string of minute errors that can turn a single small issue into a horrendously massive one.

[@cerberaodollam]

Yup, and it soured the world to the best energy source for freaking ever.

[@Cabo111]

what kind of typo was it to have all data deleted 💀

[@misoSoup26]

when you tell a joke but your parents turn it into a lecture o n o s e c o n d

[@theramendutchman]

onohour if your mom's anything like mine

[@killerbug05]

@@theramendutchman onoday

[@airygoats323]

@@killerbug05 onoweek

[@maazali9604]

@@airygoats323 onomonth

[@killerbug05]

@@maazali9604 onoyear

[@sunnerssnag]

clicked on this video thinking "how long is an onosecond?" not disappointed.

[@leotamer5]

An eternity.

[@benjaminlehmann]

The rest of his life, it sounds like

[@Snaperkid]

It is simultaneously too long and not long enough.

[@arttukettunen5757]

I thought it meant a nanosecond

[@FlyingDominion]

To an outside observer, it's approximately 1 second. To someone experiencing an onosecond, approximately their entire life.

[@AndrijGhorbunov]

TBH, using such similar characters as backticks and apostrophes with such a different meaning should also be counted as a bad decision by the developers of SQL

[@begbie1888]

I once accidentally deleted a whole live database instead of the test one. I had to restore from a backup then email everyone in the company and ask them to redo their timesheets for the whole week. Onosecond is a very polite way of saying what I said in the second immediately after realising what I'd done!

[@warshack378]

coding is like making wishes to a magic Genie, you have to be as specific as possible and you have to make sure there are no mistakes within the wish.

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

Processors actually contain miniature monkey paws, transistors are make-believe.

[@galacticgamer3028]

Yes this is factually

[@ArkenGAMES]

Nah MySQL just sucks

[@NT-sx2bd]

And then it dosent work for no reason.

[@theman13532]

like trying to get a starbucks worker to not call you something fuckin stupid

[@yugitsukasa8866]

I kept on writing "workshit" instead of "worksheet" for about 2 years in school before I realized.

[@nit-Inundate]

hanakooooo

[@maryjane915]

@@nit-Inundate thats clearly a rat, could never be hanako

[@cobaltdev]

Mary Jane hayato

[@wadduck67]

OHHH NOOO XD NOOO NOOO OH NOOOOOO XD

[@marinap5345]

@@cobaltdev My name is Kira Yoshikage, I'm 33 years old.

[@directionerCaratMumu]

Ok so discord birthday bot brought me here hahaha

[@Drag0nmaster]

Same

[@barrettross3772]

What’s the story there?

[@wadsonviola]

Hello from Birthday Bot!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@leffeup8117]

The onosecond, more commonly known as wildly smashing ctrl z even when you know the website doesnt support that

[@ibraced1243]

I sometimes use French keyboard where Ctrl Z closes the window, you can imaging how many times I accidentally lost hours worth of work.

[@circumplex9552]

@@ibraced1243 aw

[@triiodide7762]

@@ibraced1243 who tf made that a thing!?!?

[@chaotickreg7024]

@@ibraced1243 Just undo closing the window

[@hridinsbiju9023]

Thinking it will work , when you know it won't ..but it's the last thing you can try doing...

[@vibhamahanth2439]

That mistake is art by mistake "Content" was the right word for it lmao

[@andymorin9163]

tap to add content

[@lccttn848]

Ryan Knutson Err

[@vodkawhisperer3923]

@@andymorin9163 Add a public reply...

[@dryued6874]

Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought that.

[@Jack__Reaper]

666 likes, the devils work

[@CErra310]

This reminds me of Master Duel where they used search & replace to swap "Magic" to "Spell" and for a short time there was a "Dark Spellian" series of cards

[@pabloescolar_]

7:37 the delivery of this sentence actually made me laugh so hard

[@connorconnor2421]

That was an apostrophe catastrophe.

[@iminyourfridge894]

Said the question mark

[@maryrivera1959]

I literally thought “onosecond” was the worst typo lmao

[@comit8077]

@@maryrivera1959 mhm so does the person with the top comment Sus?

[@anjanavabiswas8835]

I thought onosecond the typo for one second

[@imrobbinganyonewhotalkstom4881]

More like phobia.

[@WidleyWesident]

The onosecond. Often spelled with a capital ‘F’.

[@seth2250]

Fonosecond

[@undefinedchannel9916]

The oshitsecond

[@steamedpings4889]

The "ohgoodgodifuckedupsecond"

[@danielgladstone2087]

The ‘IFedupsecond’

[@gravitygames4495]

The FrickOhGodIAmScrewedSecond

[@peterthomas5792]

Sadly, hardware guys don't have the luxury of backups & transactions. I once cut out an 'unused' fibre optic cable. It's amazing just how many peoples days can be wrecked by cutting a 0.5mm fibre... And you can't just solder them back together like wires.

[@double1777]

“Oh no.” “It’s due today.”

[@21metalGears]

Everyother: "I was young, I drank much and didn't think about consequences..." Tom: "I was young, I worked on a live database, with no transaction and didn't think about consequences..."

[@stacyardus3898]

which would you rather be? i know where i would rather be 🖥️💻

[@ralphr-c7156]

@@stacyardus3898 You'd rather have potentially destroyed somebody else's work?

[@amunak_]

In reality the issue was lack of backups, not transactions.

[@aspol12]

@@ralphr-c7156 i’d rather be working at a computer than drunk all the time

[@EposVox]

this makes me way too nervous

[@SimplyKelp]

Howdy doo

[@theramendutchman]

As a Back End dev, this makes my knees sweat

[@omegaO_O]

Hi

[@trixiebell5479]

@@theramendutchman 7h

[@happygamingboy]

Y

[@ZERO4LIFE]

i dont think those volunteers felt content

[@rex8255]

In your defense, the fact that one person can FUBAR that much work (because no automated backups, someone who is specifically tasked with that each day, whatever) was even more negligent.

[@linsproul3548]

on april fools next year we all have to just comment the word "content" on his video to mess with him

[@herculesmclovin]

I'm game! 😅

[@Nylspider]

That's evil tho

[@burningfarts]

you mean 'content'

[@Win090949]

content

[@chemicalfuzzy]

content

[@Space44]

Chrome: won’t open Me: clicks on it 30 times Also me: ono

[@liviousgameplay1755]

Tab: e x p a n d

[@BenjaminAnderson21]

Relatable in every way

[@UltraVioletLite]

y e p

[@amvymavy]

I don't know why this comment made me laugh. Maybe its so relatable because I got an Intel Celeron N3350

[@obnxsdonky9394]

Anyone that dad clicks, or doesn't wait for a program to open when they know they properly opened it, deserves all the outcomes of their impatience

[@RedBucket03]

I was brought here by a birthday bot???

[@Drag0nmaster]

Same

[@dylancode]

I was almost finished on my open-source programming language I was making - over 150,000 lines of code - and I realised something was wrong: I needed more memory for my variables. So, simple, right? Just find and replace "int" with "long" and "float" with "double" (I was using C), right? I thought that might work. But, no, EVERYWHERE I had written the three letters "int",changed to "long". So, over 200 long, hard hours down the drain, all because I was too stupid to backup my 7,000 files, 150,000 lines, 3,000,000 words, 11,000,000 characters.

[@rogervanbommel1086]

Where can I find this?

[@regina3an250]

Where can I show this?

[@varahunter68]

intelligence longelligence

[@TypicalGoosie]

Imagine creating 5798 rows of content in 0.01 seconds. Productivity achieved.

[@1233ghkkl]

😎👍

[@iratezebra1]

😎👍

[@Panda2.000]

😎👍

[@puremadness1915]

Best comment

[@catgirlcumdump4491]

😎👍

[@somethingtowatch8187]

"Oh, that's not the right word, we should delete that..." ***deletes the internet***

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

"Oh, that's not the right word, we should delete that..." "Oh, 's not the right word, we should delete ..."

[@AlexanderPrussak]

I hate when I accidentally delete the Internet and have to recreate all of its content 😔

[@CharleyCheno]

​@@AlexanderPrussak if you delete the internet, most content wont be lost...

[@ananttiwari1337]

@@CharleyCheno Yes it will.

[@CharleyCheno]

rip servers then

[@raphaelmorgan2307]

3:04 it's okay, I heard someone say "zed" in an American accent earlier, you're just restoring the balance of the universe

[@Abstract_zx]

i believe some canadians say it as "zed" and some canadians have a very similar accent to americans

[@addison1024]

I honestly prefer zed to zee, and I'd honestly take it up. I also prefer "aluminium" and want to prefer the metric system, so I may be a European masquerading as an American

[@justwhytho_omg]

I always make sure I double check whenever I type “bigger.” B and n are scarily close on the keyboard

[@gamechep]

Surgeon: _"Pass the forceps"_ Nurse: _"But the patient is dead!"_ Surgeon: *_"ROLLBACK"_*

[@andrevidal5771]

*No transaction to rollback*

[@blank-vw2sb]

*No life to rollback*

[@danielsilva9502]

They were working on a live database though

[@stilo2703]

Restart from checkpoint

[@insertnamehere8096]

Restore from last backup

[@8888k]

I can just imagine someone trying to access a file and is just presented with "content", then it happens again, and again...

[@koen203]

content content content content content

[@kornsuwin]

content

[@marshallk.5943]

content content content

[@TheAlps36]

Tom's going to have a heart attack reading this comment thread

[@makismakiavelis5718]

@AUltimateHorizonAirman That 0.001% became 100% the moment I clicked on your name and landed at your channel.

[@k-d-n]

Once I forgot a "::" in a batch file used to biosupdate laptops. More than 200 laptops was build and updated, before the error was discovered. All of the laptops was flashed with the wrong BIOS! 200 bricked laptops!!!

[@Chief-CO]

Coming back to this video every time I have an "Oh no" second. Today is 3/6/2022: I just noticed after restarting my servers that my Sambashare full of files was on a tmp folder that got deleted after system restart.

[@ColinBroderickMaths]

"Worst spelling mistake ever" Ehh, how bad could it be? "SQL" Oh .... Oh no ....

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

Colin Broderick To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. Paul R. Ehrlich

[@itsmugel]

onosecond

[@mariushsk05]

@@ErzengelDesLichtes "In most cases, the error sits 30cm in front of the screen" Dunno who said this Übrigens, hi, bin auch Deutsch

[@aolson5795]

@@mariushsk05 "PEBKAC" - Problem exists between keyboard and chair

[@mariushsk05]

@@aolson5795 Thanks. I tried to translate it from german to english. Well, my english isn't the best :)

[@noobiesmurf]

I was waiting for, "Fortunately.... " It never came.

[@DerpyNub]

Unfortunately... we never heard fortunately...

[@nufcgalore1474]

666 likes, let’s not make Satan mad shall we?

[@Vousie]

@@nufcgalore1474 Yes... It's amazing how every comment with over 700 likes has at some point had exactly 666 likes isn't it?

[@TrickShotKoopa]

@@Vousie If we're being exact, 667 would arguably be a better number to use in your comment

[@NolePTR]

Fortunately, I wasn't paying them.

[@agreatstar]

All articles finally ended up having some real content!

[@dunpealhunter]

This has to be one of the best ads for a password manager. Honestly that buildup to it was incredible!

[@Shebbi04]

Everybody experiences the onosecond when they are tipping their chair in school and lose balance.

[@Ron.S.]

Or really don’t pull out

[@likemysnopp]

im now unable to speak due to the brain injury the fall caused for me. that was a dark joke now wasnt it

[@varunvc532]

that's me rn

[@varunvc532]

like frikkin rn

[@AmnesiaForever]

@@maya_yaser Straight outta anime

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

as an IT guy myself; let me in on the secret language we apply: when we are curing and shouting profanities at the system we're working with, usually that means things are going great. Once we very quietly say 'oops' or ' o no' however.... that's usually the point where you should start panicking.

[@sydneato]

my personal favourite is the soft "ahh..". customers or clients will probably just brush it off, but your co-workers know exactly what's going on, and usually send a couple pity-glances your way.

[@anatolydyatlov963]

That's so true...

[@hansamitamajee1930]

U could have *replaced* the *'- - -'* with *'content'* after this has happened.

[@CookieGal-]

This is so true, the "oh no" is when it has gone extremely wrong.

[@zekiz774]

@@hansamitamajee1930 No you couldn't because then you replace 'content' with 'content'. Fill a page with 1s and 2s. Than replace the 2s with 1s. If I follow your logic after that you could replace the 1s with 2s and everything will be the exact same as before.

[@coptotermes]

I totally relate to this. I made a mistake many years ago where I hit the delete key while in just the wrong place. The feeling in the seconds afterwards was just dread at the realisation of what I had just done. Panic, disbelief, confusion, indecision, shock! Several days of work was needed to fix my little mistake. Life lesson learned.

[@tuliosabatino]

This is the origin story of Tom Scott creating online content

[@funnylookinrat]

The onosecond is basically a bruh moment

[@kermitthefrogdad4003]

It's a bruh moment but with more panik

[@novarender_]

Bronosecond

[@gavrielataravari]

@@novarender_ brunosecond

[@defconzero]

ofucksecond

[@rustinpiss2134]

5000 pages of bruh

[@OldManBOMBIN]

I worked in a call center for Verizon back in 07 or so; we'd occasionally get calls from people who were needing to speak to the cable side of things and we'd have to transfer them. One day, I learned that the cable division number was one digit away from a naughty-naughty number, because I accidentally transferred a very angry man there. He was not happy when he called back.

[@michaelmcdowell7096]

We all got to own up to and learn from our mistakes, it’s good for people to know other people can and do screw up. Thanks for sharing.

[@antivanti]

"If you haven't tested your backup you do not have a backup"

[@sirBrouwer]

and one is none. two is one, three is some.

[@CChallinor]

Its not a backup until it is restored....cos a write only backup is useless

[@gamermanh]

@@CChallinor Not a backup 'til it's restored, been used for at LEAST a few years, and let's add in that the hard disk it's on should probably start degrading physically before we call ourselves certain

[@kemalsorucuoglu3689]

Wise words

[@konstantinkh]

The closest I've come to testing this is accidentally nuking a dev server database during a "routine" upgrade at 11pm at night. Upgrade involved getting new version of k8s and the fact that the instance had no SSD assigned to it and was writing to memory was discovered after everything came back blank. Fortunately backups did work, and the worst part of the incident turned out to be the timing. See, 11pm was also when the last coffee shop around closed, meaning I had to do a full manual recovery on gas station coffee. We established better protocol for verifying we had good backups before running upgrades. All of the work on our live server went without a glitch. Startups are fun. Never a dull moment.

[@colbyfletcher7825]

The second you send the wrong homework folder to the teacher.

[@ceruchi2084]

"Uh, Colby, I just received your Hentai report... and you'll be needed at the Principal's Office this afternoon."

[@whitealliance9540]

@@ceruchi2084 you as well, where are the black people in this page?

[@supercomputer0448]

@@ceruchi2084 A+ see me after class ;)

[@ericcao4829]

When you realize the assignment 4 weeks ago was a 0 ‘cos you accidentally submitted a blank file

[@safe-keeper1042]

What if you submitted an essay where every page just contained the word "homework"?

[@thanos326]

When you and your mom are arguing and you slam your door a little too hard

[@nehemiahkenny5027]

Tom, Today, I changed a simple security setting on a client server. Very simple thing. Any user in folder "users" can't ask the server for a list of usernames. So if a user gets hacked, the hacker can't find out the username of an admin account to hack that. It's not our standard. It's never been done with any of our clients. But for this one, it's how it was. Presumably a relic of their previous IT. Our primary admin account was in the normal users folder, rather than a special folder for itself. On our biggest client, I applied that security update to the folder and our main admin account. The email sync ran. The account didn't see any users or email lists. It deleted all of the email lists, and no one could send email as the various departments they needed to send as. With some quick thinking and scripting, I managed to fix it, but not before people were keenly aware it'd broke. -Nehemiah Kenny, IT Professional of six years

[@wakkowarner3716]

Well that sucks. At least you managed to fix it.

[@nehemiahkenny5027]

@@wakkowarner3716 You're telling me! That would've been my job gone, if I couldn't.

[@thatellipsisguy8984]

Shows how wholesome Tom is: most of us don’t say 'Oh no' in that second...

[@bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439]

it’s not an onosecond, it’s an ofucksecond

[@hyweljones718]

@@bretsutherlandsterriblemem8439 I'd refer to it as a buggersecond.

[@user-ql9cc9hg4e]

@@hyweljones718 ur mom uwu

[@GumSkyloard]

You've never watched the Park Bench..

[@lxmental]

@@hyweljones718 I refer to is as a FUUUUU--- second

[@pixell2520]

"Every single page just replaced with the word content" Well, at least you have a good description for the website... at least what it used to have.

[@EdwardMillen]

"Our website has a lot of content"

[@aolson5795]

Probably would be an improvement for many web sites tbh

[@minecrafter9099]

@@EdwardMillen Has 5000 contents!

[@Monody512]

The heaviest lossy compression ever.

[@safe-keeper1042]

@@Monody512 This gave me an image in my head of somehow replacing 5000 images with a blank white image with text saying "IMAGE".

[@lewisc3317]

Manager: How is that website coming along? Him: Ohhh. It had alot of content.. Manager: Can I see? Him: Sure....

[@TrevorDennis100]

This reminds me of a time so long ago we only had one PC in an engineering department, and it ran MS DOS. One of the engineers was at a loose end, and decided to tidy up the files. One thing he found were these ... files that seemed to have no purpose, so he deleted them. I can't remember exactly what those files did, but I think it was something like file allocation table.

[@fuseteam]

me: "how bad could it be? it's not like they used a lot of triple dashes" tom: "... backticks-" me; "ono"

[@tekvax01]

Yes, I've made the ' for an ` error before! Luckily it just threw a syntax error and not a "hose-the-entire-database" command...

[@nathan87]

@@tekvax01 I once created a temporary table with a name that was just a little too similar to the content table of a forum. And yup, then accidentally deleted the wrong table... Fortunately there were backups, but that was when I learnt the same lesson Tom is talking about.

[@tylisirn]

Backticks as a syntactic element is the most asinine idea ever that has risen from UNIX heritage. The difference is literally 1-2 pixels on a standard terminal font and you can't even type them easily in all keyboard layouts around the world.

[@hansamitamajee1930]

U could have *replaced* the *'- - -'* with *'content'* after this has happened. Oyes

[@Ctrl_Alt_Elite]

@@hansamitamajee1930 no you could not, it changed ~5000 fields to "content"... so your solution would replace all instances of 'content' with '---' 😆 so the articles would be '---' repeated loads of times, and that's why it's so horrible

[@louisng114]

3:04 "control zee" *British citizenship revoked* 3:06 "or zed" *ROLLBACK*

[@thohangst]

@Hwen Terese no deposit no return

[@silkwesir1444]

@Hwen Terese but doesn't that kinda work like it... if after 6 weeks (or was it months?) you have no citizenship of any other state, you will automatically be considered a British citizen again ... so that you don't become "stateless", which would be in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

[@stevosteve]

Brilliant. So feel for you. I personally no longer EVER work on 'live' files unless there is a minimum 30 day uncompressed backup file retained on a seperate drive array. Yup, in the past, been there, done that.

[@jamesburninglopll3777]

This guy raises my anxiety but calms me at the same time x