• orbitz@lemmy.ca
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        25 days ago

        Thanks for the link I never remembered the numbers to know if it was for that or not…course been online long enough to know that’s the code (style) shown in comments. Was a lot of comments at one point.

        My only unsureness of the code is cause I’m old and miss newer stuff so had to check to be sure.

      • Anaeijon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        24 days ago

        I know about it, but didn’t recognize the code. So I assumed, they encoded some text to make it harder to read. So I tried decoding it.

        Turns out, if you decode this in UTF-16, it turns into a japanese sentence

        契ȑ璝寣䇘앖噣삈

        Which means (according to DeepL)

        The sound of the wind rustling through the trees

        And now I’m confused, why.

        • pipe01@programming.dev
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          23 days ago

          That’s not Japanese, there’s some Chinese and Korean characters in there too. Turns out if you decode random bytes as UTF chars you will probably get a CJK character lol

    • dan@upvote.au
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      25 days ago

      lol I still have a screenshot of Digg from when every article on the home page had this key in it.

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      24 days ago

      Apparently you can get that sequence from an AI bot if you ask it “correctly”. But rules for thee and all that.

    • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Its good that you have enough self-control to hand over your keys when you’ve had too much to drink.