linuxmemes

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.

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?

sudo apt-get install mustard-gas

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.

It's pronounced "forky".

It creates a new process that spins up 2 new instances of itself recursively.

https://itsfoss.com/fork-bomb/

You know how I know I've gotten better at using linux?

I saw the command and read it and figured out what it was although I've never been exposed to a fork bomb before in my life.

I was like okay, this is an empty function that calls itself and then pipes itself back into itself? What the hell is going on?

I will say that whoever invented this is definitely getting fucked by roko's basilisk, though. The minute they thought of this it was too late for them.

What that garble of symbols does, is that it defines and calls a function named :, which calls itself twice.

The syntax for defining a function is different in Fish, so no, this particular garble will not work:

But it is, of course, possible to write a (much more readable) version that will work in Fish.