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Bluesky post by user @magnusbeefcastle.bsky.social that reads,
I INSTALLED “LINUX”. BECAUSE WINDOWS IS FOR MEN WHO ASK PERMISSION TO EXIST. I CRUSHED THE INSTALLER WITH MY BARE HANDS AND NOW THE TERMINAL CALLS ME “SIR” BUT MY KERNEL KEEPS PANICKING. WHAT COMMAND MAKES THE COMPUTER SUBMIT COMPLETELY? I REFUSE TO GOOGLE Link to original post
~Yes, all of this user’s posts are like this.~
Meanwhile, here I am getting pegged by KDE cause I failed to properly research what migrating to Linux entailed.
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / should do the trick! It'll let the OS know it's nothing compared to you.
Note: PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS ON YOUR COMPUTER, IT IS A JOKE
but if u use rm -fr instead it only removes the French language pack...
...?...!
What's the looping command? It's a bunch of symbols.
Edit: the fork bomb. TY commenters
Are you asking about a fork bomb? That's just :(){ :|:& };:
That's it!
This one?
:(){ :|:& };:
:() { # define a function named ":".
: # run the function named ":"
| : # pass the output to the function named ":"
& # run this line in the background.
}; # end of definition
: # call the function ":".
in case anyone was curious.
If you replace : with "loop" it becomes pretty clear. The only 'weird' thing is using punctuation as a function name.
I think it's meant to be confusing. If you're unfamiliar with code, you'll likely glaze over the random string of symbols and assume it's like broken HTML or JSON or something.
Hell even if you are a programmer, I think most programmers assume you can't use a colon in a variable or function name, much less just a colon.
Definitely. But it's worth expending some skull meat to understand what's going on. :)
In some of my university classes I liked to use Hiragana characters (from Japanese) for variables and function names, just to be a jerk.
it's not just looping; every instance starts two instances of itself waiting for input. it's basically doing
async def fork():
f = fork()
await fork(await f)
...except python doesn't start the second call until its arguments are evaluated, while shell does.
Yeah, "loop" was a poor choice of keywords. My point was that replacing : with a more plain identifier helps it make sense. :)
Yep!
Not sure but it looks like I'm hacking my com
Recursively force delete the listed directory, so not just delete the directory, but go through anything below and delete that too, and the / is the root directory. So it deletes everything.
That note is unnecessary. I'd say if you are stupid enough to copy a command you find on the Internet and run it without knowing what it does, you deserve the consequences lol
That comment is unnecessary. I'd say if you are stupid enough to call people you don't know on the Internet stupid just because they're trusting, and they don't magically know what every Linux terminal command they've never heard of does...
Somehow, the exact second I've finished reading this meme i knew i would have find this comment below.
To be clear that command would wipe out everything. So please DON'T play with the nuclear option in your terminal.
Sudo
only cowards use sudo. Real chads stay in root at all times
Set the permissions of your root directory to any and all users recursively.
If a virus or hacker wants to swing, you face them head on!
Real chads use sudont
A user who doesn't know sudo is like a man with a donkey dick that doesn't get hard
Pfft, only a true beta user uses BlueSky. Real men tame their own Mastodon server.
Gotta tune down the aura, you're mogging the kernel, who is a bit nervous at times
Call up Linus if your heart is void of windows he will answer.
Just remember: The kernel can smell your fear.
Every time it looks at me funny I run dd if=/dev/u random of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 skip=$RANDOM
Let it know you ain't no bitch