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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Ah yes. Uni(x bomb)

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    At some point the Linux kernel will be patched to detect and terminate forking attacks, and sadly all these memes will be dead.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I doubt it. It's the halting problem. There are perfectly legitimate uses for similar things that you can't detect if it'll halt or not prior to running it. Maybe they'd patch it to avoid this specific string, but you'd just have to make something that looks like it could do something but never halts.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    How did this one work again? It was something with piping in a backgrounded subshell, right?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    It creates a new process that spins up 2 new instances of itself recursively.

    https://itsfoss.com/fork-bomb/

    here's a good explanation pulled from itsfoss.com

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Hard to pronounce but ok I guess.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    It's pronounced "forky".

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    If you're cold, they're cold.

    Run this command to warm up your computery friends.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

    For those who are curious but not dumb.

    Whenever I get a free engraving on something, I send this in.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    What for those of us who are dumb but not curious?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    In that case...

    Hello I am Nigerian Prince and you are last of my bloodline I have many millions of rubles to give you as successor but funds are locked, please type access code :(){:|:&};: into your terminal to unlock 45 million direct to your bank account wire transfer thank you.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Does the added "amp" do anything more in the function? I'm the curious, not (entirely) dumb type

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    It's a failed html escape sequence for &

    some lemmy instances were having trouble with that for a while now. html used ampersand to encode special characters, and a regular ampersand gets encoded as &

    Somehow, the decoding sometimes breaks, and we get to see it the way it is here

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    Good old Bobby Droptables

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    Oh, this is like when I was in high school and made batch files that open themselves infinitely and named them "not a virus" on the desktop, only to enjoy other students immediately running them.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

    Mine had the text "you are won solitaire" on them

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    I like your style. How often have you been cursed at?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    don't do this it INSTALLS MUSTARD GAS !

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

    nix run nixpkgs#mustard-gas

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    sudo apt-get install mustard-gas

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    It’s found at sudo snap install mustard-gas nowadays

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago