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    [–] Manifish_Destiny 244 points 11 months ago (5 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] 71 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.

    [–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 14 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago

    Good old Bobby Droptables

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

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

    [–] eating3645 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Pyroglyph 58 points 11 months ago (3 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] 9 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] 22 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

    [–] eating3645 5 points 11 months ago

    😂

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    What if I am dumb but not greedy?