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Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

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1,478 points·by speerer·3 days ago·232 comments

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speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
Thank you, I think you're right! I've added a correction in the post and cited your comment.
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
That's a new one and oddly apt :)
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
(Author here) for unrelated reasons my typing is very slow at the moment, so I was keen to automate. I see that people are getting different results from Claude than I did though.
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
Maybe useful for those XS sizes.
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
It might not have filled up the whole shirt then?
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
Author here. All hallucinations are my own. Now you point it out, I see why the jump in context from the terminal back to the tshirt font would give the wrong impression.
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
Author here. Thank you so much for the link which I hadn't seen! I'm very happy to see this and I'm gratified that it was deliberately difficult to OCR, not just me.
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
(Author here) Yes I agree. It was a fun side-quest though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1205/
speerer
·3 days ago·discuss
Author here - that's a good idea actually, it shouldn't be too hard to compare the various attempts. The tools I used were whatever my Android built-in is (likely Google Gemini, but I can't tell whether this is something Samsung has replaced in OneUI); tesseract; tesseract with various tweaks and charsrt restrictions; Claude; and finally, manual fixes based on disagreements between all the previous.
speerer
·8 months ago·discuss
> To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what the microcomputer was actually good for.

This is exactly the task of ChatGPT's current consumer advertising campaign in the UK. Lots of small use cases.
speerer
·9 months ago·discuss
"something" I expect.
speerer
·9 months ago·discuss
I just wanted to say that after the first paragraph, I wondered who this comment was written by, and then I realised I knew the answer already. There was no need for me to even check.
speerer
·9 months ago·discuss
> The phrase's misuse implies that evidence against a statement supports the statement.

The original meaning of 'prove' was more like 'test'. The original sense was therefore opposite to this.
speerer
·10 months ago·discuss
That particular poster has pink on the left and purple on the right.
speerer
·11 months ago·discuss
Beyond the headline, this is an interesting article listing ideas for useful features people might want.