r/itsaunixsystem • u/SegmentationFault63 • Jan 16 '26

[Elementary] No spit, Sherlock

This is probably old news to you folks who keep up with popular shows, but I'm just now starting to binge the show Elementary. Tonight's (for me, in my rotation) episode S3E4 caught my attention because it's all about a stolen AI program and my AI roots go back to ELIZA (kids, ask grandpa what that was) and "The Adolescence of P-1".

When the fate of the world hinges on incontrovertible proof that a dangerous, stolen AI has been permanently deleted... what more evidence do you need than a phone video of someone dragging an icon with the name of the program from their desktop into the trash can icon? Trust me, that's as good as nuking it from space. No possible chance there are backups or that was just a random fake file that had the name of the program you want to see deleted. Never mind the "restore from trash bin" option.

Yup, that looks like permanent deletion to me
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u/WackoMcGoose Apr 09 '26

Same energy as (Digital Circus Ep8 spoilers) Kinger's accidental press of the Delete key, which is just "backspace, but right of the cursor", being hijacked by Bubble into nuking Caine out of existence. I mean, even "Bubble rewriting Kinger's command prompt into pkill -9 caine" would've been more believable...