I laughed and my partner ask why. I told her it’s some really nerdy humor. She was fine not hearing the joke, but I loosely explained it anyway. She humored me anyway. She’s a good woman.
God my wife would just stare at me and then go on with her previous conversation.
My boyfriend is completely technically illiterate haha. But he's such a good boy otherwise
She's literally the person in this meme
Gotta keep that one around
It's like that guy that posted an example Bitcoin miner on GitHub, then a bunch of script kiddies forgot to change his wallet info for their own before deploying... He made a good chunk of change by doing nothing malicious.
Dream job.
So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it's about as good as any first-pass bash script.
It'd be a stretch to call it malware, it's probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.
This is.. clearly a meme..
I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.
But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away...
Yeah, nobody uses cmalw-lib-2.0
Its deprecated, now we use hack-lib-client-1.17
systemd-malwared and its front-end malctl are how the cool kids are doing it.
I wasn’t sure about it either
It ends with them donating money to the malware's creator...
Yes, that is odd, but not impossible either. I've seen influencers do dumb shit like that for the attention.
So you’re saying it’s about as robust as a typical Linux application then?
"It works on my machine"
He said the thing!
Packagers job to make it fit their distro, innit?
I think it was a fun post about what we go through sometimes just to get X or Y working. It was quite clever.
if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs
Scammers these days lack basic courtesy 🤦♂️
A system bestowed upon us by gods.
Sorry, folks. Using cmalw-lib is now deprecated.
Cool kids are using systemd-malwd
I guess the process could be regarded as gain of function research.
Isn't this just a newer version of this? https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html
Even if it were inspired, it is significantly different the way it's written. I've hit these same challenges before, so I'm more inclined to think it is independent discovery.
The newer one is a lot funnier though.
This reminds me of the old linux hater's blog post "At least we don't have any viruses".
That certainly was a blog with many emotions. Coming at this with no context, it looks like the kind of content that would be beautiful satire, except it's probably not.
Linux Hater's Blog was half satire and half honest criticism.
i laughed so hard 😂 😂 😂
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