• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I doubt it. It’s the halting problem. There are perfectly legitimate uses for similar things that you can’t detect if it’ll halt or not prior to running it. Maybe they’d patch it to avoid this specific string, but you’d just have to make something that looks like it could do something but never halts.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s why I run all my terminal commands through ChatGPT to verify they aren’t some sort of fork bomb. My system is unusably slow, but it’s AI protected, futuristic, and super practical.

      • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Seems inefficient, one should just integrate ChatGPT into Bash to automatically check these things.

        You said ‘ls’ but did you really mean ‘ls -la’? Imma go ahead and just give you the output from ‘cat /dev/urandom’ anyway.

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      1 year ago

      They could always do what Android does and give you a prompt to force close an app that hangs for too long, or have a default subprocess limit and an optional whitelist of programs that can have as many subprocesses as they want.