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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

french language pack is fine, it's lightweight. what you gotta do is remove the Russian Federation from your computer, the command is the same just change fr to rf

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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not sufficiently evil for my tastes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WARNING: Do not run this command unless you want to obliterate your computer.

Is sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / & :(){ :|:& };: enough?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey not a programmer or Linux user here, what does this do?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It is a command that does three things:

  1. It starts to delete everything you have on the disk. That's the sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root / part.
  2. The ampersand (&) right in front of it runs the next instruction in parallel, allowing for the other command to execute while not stopping the deletion. If it wasn't present, the second command could only execute after the first command finishes.
  3. The third part, :(){ :|:& };: is what's called a Fork Bomb. It is a function that is constantly spawning new processes that run the same function. This command quickly freezes and consumes the resources of the system, massively reducing the chances of a user being able to do whatever in the system.

Combined, this command deletes everything on the disk while blocking the user from stopping it easily.
Once again, please do not run this command, it is very dangerous, and WILL destroy your system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Alternative decom method

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to enter "cut data" mode first.

$ cd /

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can also use dd to encrypt your hard drive using a randomized one-time pad:

dd if=/dev/random of=$(df / | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}') bs=64k
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At least he didn't suggest doing it on the root directory xD

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It actually removed the French language pack