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.

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.

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.

if youre gonna write linux malware at least distribute it as a flatpak ffs

Should've written the malware in Go, smh

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Isn't this just a newer version of this?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

This reminds me of the old linux hater's blog post "At least we don't have any viruses".

i laughed so hard 😂 😂 😂