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Who hasn't typed a risky command? Throw the first stone! (programming.dev)
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Sudo rm -rf .

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[–] ghodawalaaman@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I found this magical command to send 50kb of random text data to meta's server to fill up their database with garbage data. I don't know how to do it on massive scale but at least I am doing my part by running this command 24/7 :)

while true;  do echo "$(openssl rand -hex 500000)" | netcat instagram.com 80 & disown; done;
[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

love it :D

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago

Aren't you just providing them with free pseudo-random data, while reducing the randomness of your own system?