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Maybe there's no trigger. You "trigger" it by inspecting the binary. Like how sometimes circuit boards and even circuits (even some chips famously) have embedde

Maybe there's no trigger. You "trigger" it by inspecting the binary. Like how sometimes circuit boards and even circuits (even some chips famously) have embedded easter eggs. To some degree for someone to discover but more for the authors to celebrate their creation.

tupac_speedrap 5y ago
Is it really an easter egg if you have to change binaries to get it to display? Seems more like an unused asset that they didn't take out.
- willcipriano 5y ago
  Cut content is what they would call it if it was a video game. Easter Egg is as close as a journalist is going to get.
  - usrusr 5y ago
    The “congrats" UI clearly puts it in easter egg territory though, even if the intended trigger was cut. Might be cut or perhaps the trigger still exists in the released binary but hasn't been discovered yet. But easter egg would be applicable in either case.
- LocalH 5y ago
  The triggers were found. It’s a straight up egg.
bombcar 5y ago
Sometimes the trigger would be removed in later development but the data left in (or forgotten).
scrlk 5y ago
One of the DEC Vax chips had an Easter egg message in Cyrillic for the Russian engineers who were reverse engineering DEC systems to clone: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
- elevaet 5y ago
  I wonder if they cloned it complete with the message?
  - netsharc 5y ago
    I guess your question refers to the cloned B-29 where a US factory worker made a wrong rivet hole and this hole was cloned by the Soviets? https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4-with-a-very-small-unnecessary-hole/ https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4...
    - blamazon 5y ago
      A parable on Stalinist management technique: "'What kind of stars should be put on the mass-produced aircraft – white American stars or red Soviet ones? If you put white stars, you risked being shot as an enemy of the people. If you put red, first, it will not be a copy, and second maybe Stalin is planning to use the bombers against America, England or China, and therefore keep the American markings.’ The question went all the way up to Stalin himself: Beria (NKVD chief, in charge of B-29 duplication project) ‘told Stalin about the stars as if it were a funny story and that by the way in which Stalin laughed at the joke, Beria knew unerringly which stars should be used. The last problem was solved and mass-production started…’”
  - retrac 5y ago
    Alas Communism fell before they could get that far! And they would have been better off using German. The Russian message was first added to the '87 CVAX. But Robotron (an East German company) had only just started their first runs [1] of the '85 MicroVAX 78032 clone in 1990 when the company was liquidated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701

tupac_speedrap 5y ago

Is it really an easter egg if you have to change binaries to get it to display? Seems more like an unused asset that they didn't take out.

willcipriano 5y ago
Cut content is what they would call it if it was a video game. Easter Egg is as close as a journalist is going to get.
- usrusr 5y ago
  The “congrats" UI clearly puts it in easter egg territory though, even if the intended trigger was cut. Might be cut or perhaps the trigger still exists in the released binary but hasn't been discovered yet. But easter egg would be applicable in either case.
LocalH 5y ago
The triggers were found. It’s a straight up egg.

bombcar 5y ago

Sometimes the trigger would be removed in later development but the data left in (or forgotten).

scrlk 5y ago

One of the DEC Vax chips had an Easter egg message in Cyrillic for the Russian engineers who were reverse engineering DEC systems to clone: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html

elevaet 5y ago
I wonder if they cloned it complete with the message?
- netsharc 5y ago
  I guess your question refers to the cloned B-29 where a US factory worker made a wrong rivet hole and this hole was cloned by the Soviets? https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4-with-a-very-small-unnecessary-hole/ https://aviationhumor.net/soviet-b-29-clone-the-tupolev-tu-4...
  - blamazon 5y ago
    A parable on Stalinist management technique: "'What kind of stars should be put on the mass-produced aircraft – white American stars or red Soviet ones? If you put white stars, you risked being shot as an enemy of the people. If you put red, first, it will not be a copy, and second maybe Stalin is planning to use the bombers against America, England or China, and therefore keep the American markings.’ The question went all the way up to Stalin himself: Beria (NKVD chief, in charge of B-29 duplication project) ‘told Stalin about the stars as if it were a funny story and that by the way in which Stalin laughed at the joke, Beria knew unerringly which stars should be used. The last problem was solved and mass-production started…’”
- retrac 5y ago
  Alas Communism fell before they could get that far! And they would have been better off using German. The Russian message was first added to the '87 CVAX. But Robotron (an East German company) had only just started their first runs [1] of the '85 MicroVAX 78032 clone in 1990 when the company was liquidated. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U80701