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• SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  that section of the script is just generating a random number (two actually) that it’ll use to try and pull up a page.

  Better read, is this a a loop of 500. In that loop there are 4 page accesses being attempted.

  • a modlog page at the first random index
  • a modlog page at the second random index
  • then a search for the second index
  • then another search for “fuck” + the second index number

  so it uses your computer 500 times to access their page 4 different ways.

  If anything, I undershot the estimate (their random number is sloppy, and will have collisions). But assuming they don’t have any collisions, they use your computer to ping dbzero0 2000 times

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The two answers you got didn’t really answer your question. I’m still with you as far as confusion about not making * (100 - 1 + 1) just 100.

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  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    ohshi, yea, you’re right. I totally spaced that… why didn’t he just write 100 there? I get the last +1 to keep it non-zero…

    I think bro just script-kiddied a random number script.

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    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I honestly was thinking it was some language quirk that I just didn’t understand.

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• fuzzywombat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m leaning towards AI slop coding.

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• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People aren’t actually answering your question, so I will:

  I have no fucking idea what -1 + 1 is supposed to be doing.

  If it were “100” - 1 + 1, I might say he’s converting a string to a number, but he isn’t, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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• einlander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It takes the random number given by the generator (float value between 0 and 1), and maps it to a number between 1 and 100

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