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gigachad@piefed.social · 164 pts · 336d (19 replies)

I guess you could add some sleep(1) inbetween

9point6@lemmy.world · 93 pts · 336d (3 replies)

Needs to be a sleep(3) and sleep(5) between the last ones just to add suspense

toynbee@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 336d (1 reply)
sleep $(( 1 + $RANDOM % 5 ))
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d

No it has to be controlled suspense.

wheezy@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 336d

Needs a 99% print too just before the 5 second sleep. Followed by a 99.9% and another 2 second sleep. Never print 100 and just run a traceroute in a loop.

Followed by a "we're in" from the hacker as we're made to believe he's reading the console spam like he's Neo from the matrix as he types faster and faster into an unresponsive terminal window.

xav@programming.dev · 79 pts · 336d (14 replies)

This is Python. It's already show enough.

gigachad@piefed.social · 27 pts · 336d

StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Ooof starting the day with violence I see

xav@programming.dev · 11 pts · 336d

"One troll a day keeps the intelligent people away"

ripcord@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 336d (10 replies)

That's not python

gigachad@piefed.social · 46 pts · 336d (9 replies)

It's valid Python code though, the semicolons will run but are unnecessary

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 36 pts · 336d (5 replies)

demo of semicolons being allowed in Python

I am so perplexed and horrified. I'm going to need several weeks to get over this. What is this?!

Mad_Punda@feddit.org · 21 pts · 336d (2 replies)

A way to have several statements on the same line?

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 336d (1 reply)

It seems I had semicolons confused with braces:

if picture is broken, it's this:

~ $ python -c "from __future__ import braces"
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
palordrolap@fedia.io · 7 pts · 336d

Guido undoubtedly had a strong, strong hatred of the number of ways braces are overloaded in Perl.

::: spoiler Do you really want an example?

sub doHref { { do { ${someglobal{Href}} = {} }; last }; }

Every single pairing there serves a different syntactic purpose. Some are related purposes, and I've crowbarred a few in unnecessarily for the sake of an example, but different nonetheless.

The outer pair declares the sub, and the next pair is a free block that works as a once-through unlabelled loop, which is exited with the last. (Most other languages use break for this purpose.)

The next pair are for the do which doesn't act as a loop like the free block does. The next innermost pairing wrap a variable and the inner, innermost pairing indicate that the variable is a member of a hash (associative array) and we're accessing the record named Href.

The lone {} indicates a hash reference, so we're assigning a reference to an empty, anonymous hash to that hash record.

This example is ridiculous of course. There's no need for most of those braces and syntax to do what it actually does. Also assigning to global variables is generally frowned upon.

sub doHref { $someglobal{Href} = {} }

... is equivalent and cuts out most of the guff. Still three different uses though. :::

ICastFist@programming.dev · 4 pts · 336d (1 reply)

What is this?!

Python

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 336d

Blasphemy!

ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d (2 replies)

Yeah but it wasnt intended to be python

gigachad@piefed.social · 6 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Maybe we should call the meme police then

ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 336d

On xav?

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 57 pts · 336d (4 replies)

what about the sleeps between each print?

where's the comments?

why isn't it DRY?

3/10 code, PR rejected.

urandom@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 335d (3 replies)

where’s the comments?

// this prints 80%

BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d (2 replies)

This is python

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 335d (1 reply)

Python with semicolons? I mean I guess it’ll run but why

BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d

For the POWER of doing something UNNECESSARY because you CAN

sorter_plainview@lemmy.today · 46 pts · 336d (2 replies)

You know hackers in the movies are very polite and care for their user. When they are hacking or wiping the disk they show proper progress. That is much better user experience than many corporate products. Be like hackers in the movie.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Ransomware has better tech support and customer service than your cell phone provider or ISP.

wheezy@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 336d

Their profits come from actual "customers". They can't just layoff half of their work force and use stock buybacks to make the line go up. Shit has to actually work.

rbn@sopuli.xyz · 36 pts · 336d (1 reply)

For those who want a more convincing but still low-effort variant of this, use... https://hackertyper.net/

Press F11 in your browser to run it in fullscreen.

lemmyknow@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 336d

The Hollywood command is effortless and runs on terminal

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 336d (6 replies)

Did he type the furiously on to the keyboard? No? Then it's not hacking.

Adalast@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 336d (3 replies)

I have seen like 2 movies where the hacker just ran a script and danced around the room until the progress bar got to the top, then he hit a couple inputs and ran another script and went back to dancing. It was so surreal to see something so much closer to real than the feverish hammering in a keyboard.

WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 335d

ah yeah, I'm always dancing when hacking gov systems

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 335d

Which movies?

Hoimo@ani.social · 1 pts · 335d

There's also The Core where the hacker says "yea, I can do it", demands unlimited hot pockets and all of Xena Warrior Princess on VHS, then locks himself up in his room.,

Natanael@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 336d (1 reply)
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 2 pts · 335d

Classic! Sometimes I call it up just to enjoy that feeling.

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 336d

have you seen who runs the fbi? this'll probably work irl

Damage@feddit.it · 17 pts · 336d (1 reply)

It takes skill to hack such an organization using only printf

noughtnaut@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 335d

You'd be surprised how versatile that one thing is. Or, should I say, how much abuse it gets at ioccc.....

Evilschnuff@feddit.org · 9 pts · 336d

The hacking in Mr Robot looked more authentic, I really liked it. But they usually just executed some random scripts without printouts lol.

kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 336d

I've been hacking the world this whole time!

lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 335d

Yeah, few people know that the FBI tells you the progress when hacking them.

misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 336d (1 reply)
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goatinspace@feddit.org · 2 pts · 335d

Prints a long summary with hallucinations

paulbg@programming.dev · 8 pts · 336d

behind the scenes: youtube video of a python loop

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 335d

But look how much effort he put into ricing his terminal this guy's good.

j4k3@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 336d (1 reply)

what HP printers really do

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 336d

In Soviet Russia, print() statement runs on printer.

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 335d

Guys, you can't just come in here and post exactly how hackimg works.

That's illegal!!1!

dumnezero@piefed.social · 4 pts · 336d (8 replies)

not even a loop.

tfm@piefed.europe.pub · 19 pts · 336d (7 replies)
import sys
import time
from typing import Iterable, Callable, Any

class ProgressSimulator:
    """
    A class to simulate and display the progression of a hacking process,
    with unnecessary abstraction and complexity for dramatic effect.
    """

    def __init__(self, description: str = "FBI"):
        self.description = description
        self.progress_steps = [0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100]
        self.messages = [
            f"Starting Hack...",
            *[f"Hacking {self.description} {step}%" for step in self.progress_steps],
            f"{self.description} Hacked Successfully"
        ]

    def generate_progress(self) -> Iterable[str]:
        """Generates the progress messages."""
        for message in self.messages:
            yield message

    def display_progress(self, delay: float = 0.5) -> None:
        """Displays the progress messages with a delay."""
        for message in self.generate_progress():
            print(message)
            time.sleep(delay)

    def execute_hack(self, callback: Callable[[str], Any] = print) -> None:
        """Executes the hacking process with a callback for each step."""
        for message in self.generate_progress():
            callback(message)

def create_hacking_sequence(description: str = "FBI") -> ProgressSimulator:
    """Factory function to create a hacking sequence."""
    return ProgressSimulator(description)

def main() -> None:
    """Main function to orchestrate the hacking simulation."""
    hacking_sequence = create_hacking_sequence()
    hacking_sequence.display_progress()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()
orhtej2@eviltoast.org · 12 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Enterprise grade 👌

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 336d

"How many times are you going to run this, and how many in parallel?"

"Just once, and exactly one."

"Better make a full OO class for it."

dumnezero@piefed.social · 4 pts · 336d

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 336d (2 replies)

I can do this in C in three lines.

OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 6 pts · 336d (1 reply)

Newlines mean nothing in c. You can literally write any program in three lines of c, if you don't give a crap about readability.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 336d

Oup, don’t forget about those preprocessor directives.

Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 335d
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 336d
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