This is just a forkbomb that will overload your system.
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For anybody copy & pasting code from lemmy a probably harmless system freeze should be a healthy lesson, tho
Explained here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb
Thank you. Everyone always points out the fork bomb and tells you what it achieves (overloads your system) but nobody ever answers the question: How?
Lemmy has a cool easter egg too, all you have to do is post pictures of the front and back on your moms credit card!
I'll be honest: I got caught by this trick this morning because I was not paying attention. And I am glad the joke is out here; it gives us a reminder to know what were executing when were running or programming code. Lovely work OP.
There is actually a program for cats following your cursor called oneko
which is legit, should be in your distro official repo