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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

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Post by imp0cat »

kyusan0 wrote: post #183
fennecfoxy wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I just tried, using https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.... as a source and the answer is a resounding no.

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Post by circuit10 »

MattDamonSpace wrote: post #224
olooney wrote: post #128

If you enjoy this kind of thing, you might also like Martin Kleppe's work, such as the Quine Clock: https://aem1k.com/qlock/ I reverse engineered it to a unobfuscated version a few years ago: https://gist.github.com/olooney/a89db3932b089925b71b68d7e9f2... He's done a ton of other great ASCII visualizations as well: https://aem1k.com/

Is that really a Quine edit: it’s impressive as all hell but like

Not by the definition on Wikipedia at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Source_code_...

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Post by mmooss »

grumbelbart2 wrote: post #230
mmooss wrote: post #216

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Cool. What's an industrial OCR model?

Essentially part of a machine vision software package, which in turn is computer vision specialized for factory automation. It's "industrial" because it was trained on such data (more expiration dates and SEMI-font on wafers, less random pictures of streets with some text). That, plus engineering and support: a robust implementation, deployment on almost any system, fast and good long-term support so your factory doe…

Makes sense. I wonder if there's anything in the technology that would benefit people scanning books or those scanning random things with their phones. Maybe better for low contrast or degraded print?

(Obviously those applications don't need the engineering and support, and probably would not be a good fit for your company.)

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Post by stavros »

bityard wrote: post #188
roblabla wrote: post #152

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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?

Only at most one letter jumps around, the previous letter you typed.

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Post by yogorenapan »

chrysoprace wrote: post #67

My old colleague had one with a Go program[0] which I always thought was quite cool. [0] https://github.com/GL-Kageyama/UNIQLO_Akamai_T-shirt_Code

Saw this the other day on the train, and probably stared a bit too hard at the dude wearing it. Surprised to see this on HN so soon after. World feels like a simulation
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