Spyke
9point6reply
lemmy.world

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

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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.

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gigachadreply
piefed.social

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

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NeatNitreply
discuss.tchncs.de

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

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NeatNitreply
discuss.tchncs.de

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
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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. :::

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lemmy.world

what about the sleeps between each print?

where's the comments?

why isn't it DRY?

3/10 code, PR rejected.

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

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

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lemmy.today

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.

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jaybonereply
lemmy.zip

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

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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.

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rbn
sopuli.xyz

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.

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Adalastreply
lemmy.world

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.

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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.,

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feddit.it

It takes skill to hack such an organization using only printf

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

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

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tfmreply
piefed.europe.pub
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()
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"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."

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fedia.io

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.

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Oup, don’t forget about those preprocessor directives.

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