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[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 242 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Cyv_@kbin.social 71 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 54 points 10 months ago

Good old Bobby Droptables

[-] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago

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

[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 9 points 10 months ago

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

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[-] eating3645@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

What if I am dumb but not greedy?

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 points 10 months ago

Does this damage the computer? Or can it be fixed with a restart

[-] hglman@lemmy.ml 18 points 10 months ago

You just have to restart somehow.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Invoke Palpatine to restart somehow.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Execute order shutdown -r now?

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] ABeeinSpace@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

No. The effects of a fork bomb are temporary and are fixed with a restart

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