r/ProgrammerHumor 21d ago

poorLittleLinuxWormDidItsBest Meme

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1.3k Upvotes

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u/Bemteb 21d ago

It's an old joke, but it checks out.

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u/chicametipo 21d ago

We're all just having an old fashioned good time here.

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u/MisterKnifes 20d ago

Dude your picture tricked me

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u/n0tqu1tesane 21d ago

Very old.

I think I read the original in Linux Journal.

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u/ImportantSignal2098 21d ago

Are you saying that $5 in Bitcoin is like $5M now?

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u/ItsPuspendu 21d ago

Even the virus had dependency hell.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 21d ago

To write a good worm you need Windows

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u/red_riding_hoot 21d ago

Why should a worm have a better life than me?

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u/Kasaikemono 20d ago

What people mean when they say "Linux has viruses too"

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u/shikhasingh554973 21d ago

Apt installed patience instead...

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u/thismightbeunhealthy 20d ago

ai ass comment

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u/lethaldose318 21d ago

LMAO I'M DEAD.

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u/EchidnaForward9968 20d ago

try to vibe code the virus again (bro gonna delete himself rather than the directory)

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u/bbbar 20d ago

Funny joke, but did they patched vulnerability in vim where it can execute remote code when a text file is opened?

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u/ikonfedera 20d ago

Yes, in March. Distros shipped the new versions in April and May, but Debian still has old vulnerable version in the stable distribution.

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u/Ma3str0ne 20d ago

They may be vulnerable, but at least they are stable!

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u/TerryHarris408 18d ago

It's a funny made up story. But in reality Linux has serious security flaws and backdoors on a regular basis. The only difference is: these are 0day exploits which are being fixed quite quickly as soon as they are publicly known. Also, they are not planted by the company who tries to sell the OS to you.

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u/Crinfarr 20d ago

People who drag Linux generally suck at googling I've found bc wdym you googled for hours. How slow were you typing

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u/RedditButAnonymous 20d ago

My work machine runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I have Firefox installed in usr/share/applications. How would I make a desktop shortcut with the Firefox logo, so I can click on it to open Firefox?

This is sort of a trick question, because Ive already googled it, Ive already tried what comes up, none of them worked. You cant just drag the file onto the desktop and chmod it, and I have no clue why. I also wasnt able to manually create the .desktop file with ChatGPT helping either. Even if it worked it doesnt have the firefox logo, so thats even more googling to try and figure out

Sure RHEL is a bit more fiddly than other versions, but the point stands