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BeatTakeshi lemmy.world BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-12
#52 · Quote Reply

Well yeah? And you do it in a vm. But seems like a decently simple problem anyway. ls -al and compare the sizes.

Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this

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BetterDev programming.dev BetterDev@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-13
#53 · Quote Reply

Reminder that binaries cannot change a shell's working directory, so the non-mines will do nothing. (cd is a shell builtin)

I mean, you can just write a whole custom shell for this

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some_kind_of_guy lemmy.world some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-14
#54 · Quote Reply

We have squid games at home.

Squid games at home:

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Hupf feddit.org Hupf@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-24
#55 · Quote Reply

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There also was Fake DOS back in the day

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FreddiesLantern leminal.space FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
Joined: 2025-09-19
#56 · (edited) Quote Reply

Either that or the PC keeps running anyway.

Boston Dynamics: β€œEither that or the PC keeps running away.”

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Lucy :3 feddit.org 30p87@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-22
#57 · Quote Reply

objdump -D * | less

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Anafabula discuss.tchncs.de Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-10
#58 · Quote Reply

what does this change?

Bypasses aliases and uses the original command

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KubeRoot discuss.tchncs.de kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-06-25
#59 · Quote Reply

FAT Table Can I just pay? I can go to the ATM Machine and enter my PIN Number

Despite having Table in the name, FAT isn't a table, but rather uses a table, and FAT itself is a filesystem. Thus, it's different from a machine with "machine" being in the name or a number with "number" in the name, and it seems entirely reasonable to refer to the crucial index table in the FAT filesystem as the "FAT table"

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deczzz lemmy.dbzer0.com deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-08
#60 · Quote Reply

Reminds me of gameshell, which is a rogue-like game designed to teach you the unix shell. So instead of navigating with NESW, you cd to locations. At one point you search the "garden", which is an unmanageable tangle of directories, with find.

Cool! Will give this a try for sure! Always forget commands

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somenonewho feddit.org somenonewho@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-24
#61 · Quote Reply

When people don't know normal things we learned in '92, I get worried.

Oof. I consider myself a fairly decent Linux Sysadmin (~15 years experience ~10 years professionally) but I actually didn't know about that. :/

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tetris11 feddit.uk tetris11@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-17
#62 · Quote Reply

cat 1

*a single cat is hurled unceremoniously through the window onto your lap*

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three lemmy.zip three@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#63 · Quote Reply

When people don't know normal things we learned in '92, I get worried.

Instead of acting like an asshole, teach us.

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Denvil lemmy.ml Denvil@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-06-07
#64 · Quote Reply

Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this

The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they're just bluffing, might as well try

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OwOarchist pawb.social OwOarchist@pawb.social
Joined: 2026-02-13
#65 · Quote Reply

*a single cat is hurled unceremoniously through the window onto your lap*

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bitwolf sh.itjust.works bitwolf@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-11-20
#66 · Quote Reply

What did the minefield directory do here to hijack cd?

Can an alias be applied upon cd?

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Joined: 2025-02-09
#67 · Quote Reply

Running Qubes as a daily driver is some serious level of privacy enthusiasm

I do it mainly cos it makes managing lots of different environments easy. I can have windows and different Linux distros and different packages and cool shit all from one display manager.

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Allero lemmy.today Allero@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-20
#68 · Quote Reply

I do it mainly cos it makes managing lots of different environments easy. I can have windows and different Linux distros and different packages and cool shit all from one display manager.

Doesn't virtualization eat away a lot of performance? Or do you not care much about it?

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Joined: 2025-02-09
#69 · Quote Reply

Doesn't virtualization eat away a lot of performance? Or do you not care much about it?

1-2% is the overhead of virtualization. Hardware virtualization is Goated. And QubesOS uses Zen under the hood same as what's used by aws etc so its well optimised.

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Allero lemmy.today Allero@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-12-20
#70 · Quote Reply

1-2% is the overhead of virtualization. Hardware virtualization is Goated. And QubesOS uses Zen under the hood same as what's used by aws etc so its well optimised.

Nice

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Alberat lemmy.world Alberat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-03
#71 · (edited) Quote Reply

What did the minefield directory do here to hijack cd? Can an alias be applied upon cd?

on termux it works:

~ $ alias 'cd=echo'
~ $ cd

~ $ cd hi
hi
~ $
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Alberat lemmy.world Alberat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-03
#72 · (edited) Quote Reply

The power cable would like to have a word.

it removed your disc encryption keys and the only way to recover it is finding it in memory through the minefield

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tyler programming.dev tyler@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
#73 · Quote Reply

Obvioulsy whoever set this minefield thought about this

I mean they didn’t, cause you can just open another terminal window or pull the plug on the computer, but like someone else said, a binary can’t change the directory for you cd is a shell built in, so I’m pretty sure this would be trivial to get past.

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assa123 lemmy.world assa123@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#74 · Quote Reply

The greatest trick is to make your opponent think you thought of everything. Powering off might just straight up work and they're just bluffing, might as well try

What if it encrypts the disk when entering the dir and the only way to decrypt it is by winning? Decryption keys will be provided via API at the end.

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assa123 lemmy.world assa123@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#75 · Quote Reply

What if it encrypts the disk when entering the dir and the only way to decrypt it is by winning? Decryption keys will be provided via API at the end.

oh, and the endpoint key is on ram, to be lost forever after shutdown.

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