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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] UnbrokenTaco@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting. I wonder how long it takes until most bots adapt to this type of "reverse DoS".

Then we'll just be more clever as well. It's an arms race after all.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How I read that code:

"If the dev folder's bullshit is equal to 1 gram..."

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I want to know he they built that visualization

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