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At some point the Linux kernel will be patched to detect and terminate forking attacks, and sadly all these memes will be dead.
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.
That's why I run all my terminal commands through ChatGPT to verify they aren't some sort of fork bomb. My system is unusably slow, but it's AI protected, futuristic, and super practical.
Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.
You said 'ls' but did you really mean 'ls -la'? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from 'cat /dev/urandom' anyway.
I said "ls" but I really meant "sl". I just wanted to watch that steam locomotive animation.