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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

#192
post #81

On one hand it's nice how it's clean and commented, but on the other hand some golfing could have made the encoded block a lot more reasonable to actually manually enter.

It might not have filled up the whole shirt then?

Could have used bigger font.

Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

#194

"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.

ATTN, Uniqlo customer service employees: If someone tries to return a shirt claiming an error in the printed computer code, decline the request and reply, "A real script kiddie would've spotted that error before buying."

Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

#195

"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

#196
post #42

I 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

It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go. https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...

At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.

Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

#197

"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.

ATTN, Uniqlo customer service employees: If someone tries to return a shirt claiming an error in the printed computer code, decline the request and reply, "A real script kiddie would've spotted that error before buying."

A real hacker, maybe. A script kiddie is by definition someone who wouldn't notice.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/script-kiddies.html

Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

#198
post #12
post #9

I 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

"just typing it" would be more error prone for the average human

Not really. Transcribing long sequences of nonsense is annoying but quite easy to do without error as long you're patient enough to follow a simple process of reading, typing, and double-checking character-by-character.

Re: Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

#200
post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All the smells you pointed out, just look like a Python dev approaching bash without fully understanding it. also, referring to Linux as "the language of the internet" when bash isn't particularly suited for internet tasks also smell like "excited windows Python dev"...

FWIW, his screens looked a lot like OSX to me (which tracks with graphic design users in my experience). Anyway, he seems like a very nice fellow and I wish him and almost all T-shirt designers well. That bash script just gave me a lot of pause. (And even that seems possibly downstream of him being nice and doing it himself to spare his team from what he called a "FrankenProject".)

"Linux, the open-source language of the internet" comes from the linked akamai.com press release, not the blog post author. Their putting that as a section title to the quote may be their poking light fun at it.
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