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I spent five minutes writing “hey you, yes you” only to read your comment and realize my message is unparsable for those not on mobile.

• brookst 2y ago
  These days we say "encrypted" rather than "unparseable".
  • jaggederest 2y ago
    bcdofsteua perhaps.
  • Dwedit 2y ago
    Encrypted using EBCDIC
• cyanydeez 2y ago
  ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
  • MaxikCZ 2y ago
    Here, you dropped this: \
    • tekknolagi 2y ago
      I made https://shru.gg/r https://shru.gg/r for this reason
      • Vicinity9635 2y ago
        What's the r for? reddit (markdown?)
        • moritzwarhier 2y ago
          There's a link in the bottom-left corner, haven't checked, but reads like an accompanying reddit tool (since there's no real plugin system, guess it's a web app requiring credentials)
          • tekknolagi 2y ago
            No plugins, just HTML, no credentials
            • moritzwarhier 2y ago
              Cool! Sorry that my comment read like an accusation, should have clicked/tapped the link ;) Not following links is a bad habit easy to pick up on mobile.
              • WildGreenLeave 2y ago
                On iOS long pressing a link so it previews is very nice for these kind of things. I only wished you were able to scroll inside that popup/preview.
        • tekknolagi 2y ago
          Reddit (and other fora). The homepage is for non-escaped. There's also /free
      • Vicinity9635 2y ago
        You'll likely enjoy "Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed: Japanese style Faces" https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_17760284.html
        • latentsea 2y ago
          ╯‵Д′)╯彡┻━┻ Angry guy flipping a table has always been my favorite.
        • jowea 2y ago
          wait what?
          • rabbitofdeath 2y ago
            (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
            • graeber_28927 2y ago
              ┳━┳ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
              • yard2010 2y ago
                Φ,Φ
      • unstatusthequo 2y ago
        Posts like this is what makes HN great.
      • nemo1618 2y ago
        I added a Mac keyboard shortcut, so anywhere I type "shrg" it expands to ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ If I need an escaped version, that's "shrgg": ‾\\\_(ツ)\_/‾
        • dayjaby 2y ago
          Did this ever turn against you when coding? `std::shared_ptr<Gate> shrg = ...` or similar?
          • fredoliveira 2y ago
            ‾\_(ツ)_/‾
  • fsckboy 2y ago
    _/`(ツ)_/¯ walk like an Egyptian
• TZubiri 2y ago
  The idea of public canvases has been explored thousands of times: r/place, 1 million pixels,... This feels like something else, it's ok if it has its own identity, otherwise it devolves/converges into a place to draw dicks in.
  • crdrost 2y ago
    It's a rectangular grid. People aren't going to troll with dicks, but swastikas.
    • falseprofit 2y ago
      Virtually all monitors are rectangular grids
      • nomel 2y ago
        You could sorta kinda claim that most OLED displays are not rectangular [1], since only green is at full resolution, with blue and red being at a partial resolution, by sharing those sub pixels between "logical" pixels. [1] https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not-same-gs4 https://www.oled-info.com/gs5-diamond-pixel-architecture-not...
        • Macha 2y ago
          Note for anyone confused, this is about AMOLED displays commonly used in phones and some OLED laptops from a few years ago. W-OLED and QD-OLED have unconventional layouts compared to LCDs but every pixel has the complete set of sub pixels (RGB for QD-OLED, RGBW for W-OLED) so it looks more like this: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.displayninja.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F05%2FSamsung-QD-OLED-2023-Panel-Subpixel-Layout.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=a1edb3152fdeda8668749b14107cf73a51c669d54ddceabfd75de269dff48dee&ipo=images https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... Just mentioning as while AMOLED phones being the majority of OLED displays seems plausible to me, it's likely not what people in this thread are picturing when they see OLED.
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• crdrost 2y ago
  This problem is traditionally solved by attempting to teach the aliens how to decode the pattern inside the pattern itself. For example a rendering might look like x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ x _ x _ _ x x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ x _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x x _ _ x x x _ x x _ _ x x x _ _ x x x _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x x _ _ x _ x _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x _ x _ x _ x _ _ x x _ _ x _ x _ x x x _ _ x _ _ _ _ x _ _ x x x _ x x x _ _ x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x The idea is that the aliens can figure out first that these opening and closing sections have periodicity 30, and because they are so repetitive they do not contain the actual data bits, but then there is a central section which does contain complexity. So then they will hopefully alight upon the idea of looking at the code two-dimensionally, and adjust their browser width until the lines all line up, at which point they get the custom message.
  • pavel_lishin 2y ago
    Wouldn't it be slightly simpler to use a prime number of rows and columns?
    • crdrost 2y ago
      Slightly, yes! The Arecibo message was 73×23 bits, with the hope that the aliens would break lines after 23 bits. But, i f . t h e s n e i l a . e s . l i k e . o r t s u o b p h e d o n . w . r e d r o e . a r e . k c s . a d n i r e w e d . o a . e h t . n r e c i b o . e g a s s e m . a n y w a y and that's to say nothing of spiraling orders etc.