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[-] gigachad@piefed.social 162 points 4 weeks ago

I guess you could add some sleep(1) inbetween

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 90 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 41 points 4 weeks ago
sleep $(( 1 + $RANDOM % 5 ))
[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 weeks ago

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 85 points 4 weeks ago

This is Python. It's already show enough.

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 weeks ago

Ooof starting the day with violence I see

[-] xav@programming.dev 11 points 4 weeks ago

"One troll a day keeps the intelligent people away"

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago
[-] gigachad@piefed.social 46 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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 20 points 4 weeks ago

A way to have several statements on the same line?

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 4 weeks ago

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 points 4 weeks ago

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

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 points 4 weeks ago
[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 weeks ago
[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah but it wasnt intended to be python

[-] gigachad@piefed.social 6 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe we should call the meme police then

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[-] sorter_plainview@lemmy.today 46 points 4 weeks ago

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 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 weeks ago

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 points 4 weeks ago

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 7 points 4 weeks ago

The Hollywood command is effortless and runs on terminal

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 32 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 27 points 4 weeks ago

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 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Which movies?

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[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 12 points 4 weeks ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Damage@feddit.it 16 points 4 weeks ago

It takes skill to hack such an organization using only printf

[-] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 weeks ago

I've been hacking the world this whole time!

[-] Evilschnuff@feddit.org 9 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] paulbg@programming.dev 8 points 4 weeks ago

behind the scenes: youtube video of a python loop

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

"ChatGPT, write me a program to hack the FBI"

[-] goatinspace@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Prints a long summary with hallucinations

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

what HP printers really do

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

That's illegal!!1!

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 19 points 4 weeks ago
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()
[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

"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."

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

I can do this in C in three lines.

[-] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 6 points 4 weeks ago

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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