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.
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.
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
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
Good old Bobby Droptables
I like your style. How often have you been cursed at?
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
😂
Does this damage the computer? Or can it be fixed with a restart
You just have to restart somehow.
Invoke Palpatine to restart somehow.
Execute order
shutdown -r now?No, it’ll just lock it up but shouldn’t cause any damage or data loss unless you have unsaved work open. A restart should fix it.
No. The effects of a fork bomb are temporary and are fixed with a restart