I just tried the fork bomb on Termux. That was way more effective than I expected. It actually crashed the whole system. Even my smart band disconnected, so basically everything had to die. No response to short pressing power button.

I thought Android would have some better process management. Apparently not. It's scary that an app can crash the whole system so easily.

Meanwhile when I tried it on Linux Mint, the DE just restarted after a minute, killing the processes.

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's scary that an app can crash the whole system so easily

That's Linux baby!

Windows User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Windows: "No"

Mac User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Mac: "No" (but in a nicer font)

Linux User: "Hey run this to crash my computer."

Linux: [instantly crashes]

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why are my CPU temps going up?

[–] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 68 points 8 months ago

He's purring

[–] rizoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ok but actually what does this do?

[–] groet@feddit.de 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

its a lot more readable if you replace the : with any other function name

fork() {
     fork | fork &
};
fork

define a funktion called fork, which calls itself twice (call once, pipe ( "|" ) the result to the same function again which is run in a new thread in the background ( "&" )). Then call the newly defined function. The : is used to make it look more like emoji.

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In powershell:

for(){hh \}

Also the beeping will be annoying.

[–] Thunderwolf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I'd call myself adequate with PowerShell, but I've never seen this before. Is hh an alias, or is hh a binary?

Edit: it appears hh.exe is the compiled html help viewer. Neat

[–] Kid_Thunder@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah you can use any executable but hh is just short and in everyone's path.

[–] Toes@ani.social 9 points 8 months ago

sudo cat /dev/random > /dev/fb0

Is also a good time