• wheezy@lemmy.ml
        6·
        2 days ago

        Needs a 99% print too just before the 5 second sleep. Followed by a 99.9% and another 2 second sleep. Never print 100 and just run a traceroute in a loop.

        Followed by a “we’re in” from the hacker as we’re made to believe he’s reading the console spam like he’s Neo from the matrix as he types faster and faster into an unresponsive terminal window.

          • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
            41·
            2 days ago

            demo of semicolons being allowed in Python

            I am so perplexed and horrified. I’m going to need several weeks to get over this. What is this?!

              • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
                3·
                2 days ago

                It seems I had semicolons confused with braces:

                if picture is broken, it’s this:

                ~ $ python -c "from __future__ import braces"
  File "<string>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
                • palordrolap@fedia.io
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  Guido undoubtedly had a strong, strong hatred of the number of ways braces are overloaded in Perl.

                  Do you really want an example?

                  sub doHref { { do { ${someglobal{Href}} = {} }; last }; }

                  Every single pairing there serves a different syntactic purpose. Some are related purposes, and I’ve crowbarred a few in unnecessarily for the sake of an example, but different nonetheless.

                  The outer pair declares the sub, and the next pair is a free block that works as a once-through unlabelled loop, which is exited with the last. (Most other languages use break for this purpose.)

                  The next pair are for the do which doesn’t act as a loop like the free block does. The next innermost pairing wrap a variable and the inner, innermost pairing indicate that the variable is a member of a hash (associative array) and we’re accessing the record named Href.

                  The lone {} indicates a hash reference, so we’re assigning a reference to an empty, anonymous hash to that hash record.

                  This example is ridiculous of course. There’s no need for most of those braces and syntax to do what it actually does. Also assigning to global variables is generally frowned upon.

                  sub doHref { $someglobal{Href} = {} }

                  … is equivalent and cuts out most of the guff. Still three different uses though.

    • Adalast@lemmy.world
      15·
      2 days ago

      I have seen like 2 movies where the hacker just ran a script and danced around the room until the progress bar got to the top, then he hit a couple inputs and ran another script and went back to dancing. It was so surreal to see something so much closer to real than the feverish hammering in a keyboard.

  • sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
    13·
    2 days ago

    You know hackers in the movies are very polite and care for their user. When they are hacking or wiping the disk they show proper progress. That is much better user experience than many corporate products. Be like hackers in the movie.

    • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      Ransomware has better tech support and customer service than your cell phone provider or ISP.

      • wheezy@lemmy.ml
        8·
        2 days ago

        Their profits come from actual “customers”. They can’t just layoff half of their work force and use stock buybacks to make the line go up. Shit has to actually work.

    • noughtnaut@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      You’d be surprised how versatile that one thing is. Or, should I say, how much abuse it gets at ioccc…

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    A while ago, some colleagues wanted to basically demo a tool from our security department and figured they could show the text log in a video, if they redacted it.
    So, they went over it with one of the security folks and well, there was a lot to redact. In the end, they would’ve been left with basically the same kind of output. More or less like this:

    Starting scan...
*redacted*
*redacted*
...
*redacted*
*redacted*
Progress: 100%
Scan successful!
    • tfm@piefed.europe.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago
      import sys
import time
from typing import Iterable, Callable, Any

class ProgressSimulator:
    """
    A class to simulate and display the progression of a hacking process,
    with unnecessary abstraction and complexity for dramatic effect.
    """

    def __init__(self, description: str = "FBI"):
        self.description = description
        self.progress_steps = [0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100]
        self.messages = [
            f"Starting Hack...",
            *[f"Hacking {self.description} {step}%" for step in self.progress_steps],
            f"{self.description} Hacked Successfully"
        ]

    def generate_progress(self) -> Iterable[str]:
        """Generates the progress messages."""
        for message in self.messages:
            yield message

    def display_progress(self, delay: float = 0.5) -> None:
        """Displays the progress messages with a delay."""
        for message in self.generate_progress():
            print(message)
            time.sleep(delay)

    def execute_hack(self, callback: Callable[[str], Any] = print) -> None:
        """Executes the hacking process with a callback for each step."""
        for message in self.generate_progress():
            callback(message)

def create_hacking_sequence(description: str = "FBI") -> ProgressSimulator:
    """Factory function to create a hacking sequence."""
    return ProgressSimulator(description)

def main() -> None:
    """Main function to orchestrate the hacking simulation."""
    hacking_sequence = create_hacking_sequence()
    hacking_sequence.display_progress()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()