Post #4400568
2026-08-05 20:15 UTC
Replies (3)
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@unicorn@lgbtqia.space 2026-08-06 00:43
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @ricci@discuss.systems this was a lot of fun to read through! Thank you for reminding me about when I used to be so curious I would have random afternoons a lot like this, just exploring what I could do for the fun of it. I seem to have misplaced my curiosity somewhere, and now I finally remember how to get it back!
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@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space 2026-08-05 20:17
one intriguing possibility is that several UTF-8 emoji codepoints start with 0xF0 which is an otherwise harmless prefix on 8088 💯 -> f0 9f 92 af this becomes 00000000 F0 9F lock lahf 00000002 92 xchg dx,ax 00000003 AF scasd
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@fraggle@social.coop 2026-08-05 20:31
@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space have you seen tom7's sigbovik paper about executable binaries composed entirely from printable characters? Seems orthogonal to that