Comment on Anon finds a flashdrive

javasux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SirDerpy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s an ancient meme rooted in green text brevity, intentionally misused to form another ancient meme, leading through yet another to a fourth.

  Appending .exe to whatever states that the contextually implied action was performed. For example:

  payday groceries.exe steak on sale dinner.exe

  It’s being used here to obfuscate a folder, as file format was used to obfuscate distribution of the LOIC in the picture of the “It’s dangerous to go alone…” meme.

  But, the cake is a lie. It was Morgan Freeman, all along.

  I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away.

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  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Understood.iso

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      wom.bat

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  maybe someone once performed a command like “for all files in this folder without an extension, append .exe to them” and didn’t exclude subdirectories from that

  no nothing similar has ever happened to me, nuh-uh, why would you ever suspect that

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• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Well there’s always self-executing archives

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Self-sxtracting*

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why not?

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Because that would be a folder extension in case of a folder.

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• Bonsoir@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Because there’s nothing to prevent it.

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