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submitted 1 day ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 78 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I believe he's returning a gzip HTTP response stream, not just a file payload that the requester then downloads and decompresses.

Bzip isn't used in HTTP compression.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Brotli is an option, and it's comparable to Bzip. Brotli works in most browsers, so hopefully these bots would support it.

I just tested it, and a 10G file full of zeroes is only 8.3K compressed. That's pretty good, though a little bigger than BZip.