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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

Is it immune to zip bombs?

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 week ago

All I know is it compresses memory. The mechanism mentioned here for ZIP bombs to crash bots is to fill up memory fast with repeating zeroes.

[-] Guidy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I thought it was to fill all available storage. Maybe it’s both?

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