I do like these sorts of things; decoded a less exciting one from a bottle of wine I found in 2019. Significantly more eye-watering without OCR: https://xcancel.com/duggan/status/1130920846304993282
Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
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Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#182"Uniqlo x Akamai sells another design of shirt in the same range which is plainly incomplete" Imagine having to return a t-shirt because that malfunction! — I don't understand why are you returning this, was the size wrong or you didn't like it? — No, there is a syntax error at line 37 that makes it impossible to run, and I'm concerned people on the street may think I promote unsafe bash scripting.
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Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#183I 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
But it's not hard to OCR? And I don't know why the article dedicates an entire section to it. On a Samsung S24U I held down the "circle to search" homescreen button which brings up the AI tools interface (I don't know what it's officially called), held down on the text and copied the whole thing in one shot. It took like 2 seconds.
Did it get every character correct?
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#184> I guess Uniqlo is run through Windows though: one thing that struck me was the font, which I’m almost certain is Consolas, Surely this would use whatever font the virtual terminal profile was set to? I don’t know of any method to choose a virtual terminal font from bash and don’t see any code that addresses it?
They're referring to the font on the T-shirt.
Ah, I see. I’m sure the clothing designer that actually made the design couldn’t care less about technical consistency and was just looking for something ‘tech’ looking that also read well in that design context in that medium.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Honestly it was quite a whiplash to go from what looked like a good article to something that seemed completely made up. But I would chalk that up more to my reading comprehension than your writing.
I didn’t read it as generated text, but the context definitely threw me.
Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
#186"Uniqlo x Akamai sells another design of shirt in the same range which is plainly incomplete" Imagine having to return a t-shirt because that malfunction! — I don't understand why are you returning this, was the size wrong or you didn't like it? — No, there is a syntax error at line 37 that makes it impossible to run, and I'm concerned people on the street may think I promote unsafe bash scripting.
- I am shell-shocked at the lack of quality assurance! Can you at least apply a patch?
- Sure, we distribute a patch, you hot-fix it.
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#187Whats going on with Uniqlo? Is it still popular in the US?
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has anyone ever made a monospace font with dynamic kerning? Which is a silly thing I never thought of until I read the above comment. This sounds nonsensical at first glance(and it may be) but hear me out. We use monospace fonts for a reason, they stack in a grid nicely. But within the confines of that grid there is room to shift a character left or right a bit which may lead to a nicer to read monospace. (it is equa…
Monaspace has a feature called "texture healing" that does something similar: it allows bigger letters to "steal" space from adjascent smaller letters, to make it easier to read. The result is that the letters are still in a grid, while still allowing for bigger letters to "breathe". https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace/blob/main/docs/Textu... It's the main reason I use monaspace as a font.
I'm open to trying it, but my gosh, having one 'w' offset slightly by a few pixels from the one right above it feels like it would drive me bonkers eventually.
And: doesn't this result in text that "jumps around" as you type?
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#189I want to submit a pr to s/SIGINT/0
You want to do that cleanup regardless why you exit.
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#190> I’ve no idea at all how many views this site gets, but I’m willing to bet it’s not even double-digit humans per month.
I'd take that bet considering it's got close to thousand upvotes and on front page of HN