• @eating3645
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    1910 months ago

    What for those of us who are dumb but not curious?

    • Pyro
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      5810 months ago

      In that case…

      Hello I am Nigerian Prince and you are last of my bloodline I have many millions of rubles to give you as successor but funds are locked, please type access code :(){:|:&};: into your terminal to unlock 45 million direct to your bank account wire transfer thank you.

      • @[email protected]
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        910 months ago

        Does the added “amp” do anything more in the function? I’m the curious, not (entirely) dumb type

        • @[email protected]
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          10 months ago

          It’s a failed html escape sequence for &

          some lemmy instances were having trouble with that for a while now. html used ampersand to encode special characters, and a regular ampersand gets encoded as &

          Somehow, the decoding sometimes breaks, and we get to see it the way it is here