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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • its a bash script (bash is a linux shell, like an advanced command prompt). Similar to a very advanced batch file (.bat) on windows, or more in line with the functionality available with windows PowerShell, but with better tools and less stupid, for Linux instead of Windows. On Linux file extensions aren’t necessary, you can set permissions to whether a file is executable or not as an attribute to the file, so you can download this text script file that’s been renamed to be a .exe, and it won’t work on windows at all, nor on linux, until after you either give it permission to execute and then run it, or run it by piping it into the bash shell, which is what their one-liner copy/paste with the tinyurl would end up doing.

    Honestly, after looking through it all it does is go through some jokey menus with some jokey responses, and feels very reminiscent of code written by chatGPT, which is pretty much the only place I ever see those unicode character icons being used in actual code.