It is a symlink, but bash will automatically enable posix compliance mode if you use it. So any bash specific features will bomb out unless you explicitly reset it in the script.

I thought it was decompiled code at first to, but the function names are still real words. It’s almost like it was manually obfuscated by replacing all the variable names.

Even with RES, I remember seeing a few years ago that Reddit does some form of obfuscation with karma. So no one really knows the true number of downvotes and upvotes.