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I wasted all my generational luck for this (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Perhaps run 20 billion threads and you will end it by the time the universe doubles its age.

What? I can't set /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max to 20 billion‽
Gotta send a bug report to the Linux kernel.