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DO NOT RUN THAT or risk breaking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act! It sends a 'reverse ping' from Google to you, and it effectively hacks their server to initiate i
by elwell 3y ago
DO NOT RUN THAT or risk breaking Computer Fraud and Abuse Act! It sends a 'reverse ping' from Google to you, and it effectively hacks their server to initiate it.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoPlease explain
- eska 3y agoProgrammer humor is generally terrible
- throwawaaarrgh 3y agoHah, clearly you have no idea of what you are talking! In order to ascertain the general level of humor of a programmer, you would have to assume all programmers are equivalent! Furthermore you would be assuming that there is one kind of humor, which is clearly a fallacy. Finally, the amount of "terribleness" you allude to cannot be quantified in such a way as to distinguish an objective level of quality. Therefore you are clearly wrong! Try doing some research before you share such a naive opinion in the future.
- eska 3y agoqed
- kzrdude 3y agoThe `-c -1` reads like it's requesting sending negative one pings, hence the reversal.
- rzzzt 3y agoA gnip!
- Alekhine 3y agoNo, it doesn't. It just sends 1 ECHO_REQUEST packet. If this was sarcasm I could not detect it
- kzrdude 3y agoIt seems to give up before sending anything at all: ping: invalid argument: '-1': out of range: 1 <= value <= 9223372036854775807
- Biganon 3y agoAbove: someone tries humor on Hacker News. It goes exactly as expected.
- elwell 3y agoIs it possible you and your parent (my child) are deepening the sarcasm to indistinguishable degrees? I think not, but I like to imagine.