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.
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.
Mine had the text “you are won solitaire” on them
What for those of us who are dumb but not curious?
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.Does the added “amp” do anything more in the function? I’m the curious, not (entirely) dumb type
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
Good old Bobby Droptables
I like your style. How often have you been cursed at?
At some point the Linux kernel will be patched to detect and terminate forking attacks, and sadly all these memes will be dead.
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.
If you’re cold, they’re cold.
Run this command to warm up your computery friends.
don’t do this it INSTALLS MUSTARD GAS !
nix run nixpkgssudo apt-get install mustard-gasIt’s found at
sudo snap install mustard-gasnowadaysNO
Ah yes. Uni(x bomb)
This cat is just :3
:3
Hard to pronounce but ok I guess.
It’s pronounced “forky”.
How did this one work again? It was something with piping in a backgrounded subshell, right?
It creates a new process that spins up 2 new instances of itself recursively.
https://itsfoss.com/fork-bomb/
