I’m pretty sure it just plays sounds/music.
But still, I’m not running obfuscated code from the internet on my machine.

EDIT:

Nvm that, lemmy disliked my code for some reason.

“Here, run this unreadable code” just goes against all rules of computer safety.

EDIT2:

Did a little “oopsie” there. My bad. It’s fixed now.

And that’s one of the reasons.

Aplay can wreck your speakers and/or soundcard depending on what’s fed to it.

I wouldn’t even run this on someone else’s machine.

Why tf would anyone run a random shell script on their machine? You don’t even need an RCE anymore you just need a dumb ass on social media.

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Ye run this script which uses GCC and launches compiled result, what could possibly go wrong

Show don’t tell

https://imgur.com/8p7oPbp

If you want to run some less low-level code to explore the kinds of sounds that code like this can create, I wrote a python applet that lets you explore random and custom functions interactively. It comes with several presets for interesting functions I’ve discovered on various websites.

YouTube video

source code

💯

this is way more beautiful than i expected. amazing work!

to everyone reporting this post as “malware”: 🤣 it really isn’t.

(i read it carefully before running it… if you don’t comprehend something like this, refraining from running it is a good choice.)

edit: lmao at the downvotes! For fun I ported it to Python… this version produces identical output to the original, but stops after a couple thousand seconds instead of running forever. and it is sadly 36 bytes longer.

(maybe the python version helps convince a few people it isn’t malware?)