After being primed by the article, I read the author's name as "Shirtliker"...
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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#42I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526
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#43I thought it was funny that the author used a variety of OCR tools with mixed success before spending a lot of time manually fixing up the output from the best one, rather than just typing it in
I ran it through paddle paddle OCR and it flawlessly did it.
Google's OCR through my phone's Google lens had also worked at getting a very good extraction but not 100% correct. Definitely would spend less time fixing it than hand copying.
IDK what the author was using but I feel like he could have shared how his OCR attempt went, but I am thinking he tried some naive OCR tools.
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#44Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#45OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model. I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually. I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem…
Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if you try to copy the entire string, including the hashbang part.
I wonder what it's doing under the hood to get such good performance?
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely LLM. No humans write that many comments.
Honestly it's a bit of a shame. I checked and they could've shortened their base64 payload by 304 chars by removing all comments except the top two congratulatory ones, or by 524 if they removed those too.
The HN optimizing T-shirt compiler is the next stage here :D
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#47OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model. I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually. I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem…
I don't think it was written by an LLM, some things stand out: The congratulations text is both in English and Japanese. Contains a single heart emoji. There was an intention to have a cyan to orange gradient, but the range starts in an ANSI block, ends halfway through the 256 color block and 256 terminal colors are not arranged like a gradient at all. There's no sleep at the end of the loop where I feel like an LLM…
"the code is not quite detail oriented enough to be AI", times are changing
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#48OCRing this is a nightmare and is a good benchmark to any self-proclaimed good OCR/vision model. I think though it could likely be easily OCR'd if you give the image to any decent agentic harness with a good vision model, e.g. newest Claude/GPT ones, and tell them to split the image per lines, and then just OCR each line individually. I wonder if the script itself was written by an LLM before obfuscation? There seem…
Safari's copy-text-from-image feature manages the entire base64 part of the string, except for the first character (I instead of a T). Weirdly, it gets much worse performance if you try to copy the entire string, including the hashbang part. I wonder what it's doing under the hood to get such good performance?
Didn't know Safari had this.
Looked it up, you put mouse over text, then just select and copy it - very cool!
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/ibrw20183ad7/ma...
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#49Brilliant marketing when you can get people to pay to walk around advertising with your logo!!
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#50what if it contained a zero day for tesseract and the script you thought you got is just a throwaway
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