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I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://

by wbh1 3mo ago

I love this shirt! Here's a nice video from the actual designer about the process of making this shirt (including intentionally making it hard to OCR): https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526 https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=526

speerer 3mo ago
Author here. Thank you so much for the link which I hadn't seen! I'm very happy to see this and I'm gratified that it was deliberately difficult to OCR, not just me.
- heresie-dabord 3mo ago
  As much as I hope for Peace, I would have suggested echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '
criddell 3mo ago
It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go. https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...
- wildzzz 3mo ago
  At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.
- marcus_holmes 3mo ago
  This was my reaction! OCR? oh my sweet summer child, you cannot know the days we spent typing in raw code from a magazine, and the joy when it finally ran.
VladVladikoff 3mo ago
I watched the link but I didn’t see where he talked about making it difficult to OCR? What exactly was done that made it difficult to OCR?
- novia 3mo ago
  https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750 https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750
fennecfoxy 3mo ago
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.
- kyusan0 3mo ago
  Did it get every character correct?
  - imp0cat 3mo ago
    I just tried, using https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.jpg https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.... as a source and the answer is a resounding no.

by wbh1 3mo ago

speerer 3mo ago

Author here. Thank you so much for the link which I hadn't seen! I'm very happy to see this and I'm gratified that it was deliberately difficult to OCR, not just me.

heresie-dabord 3mo ago
As much as I hope for Peace, I would have suggested echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '

criddell 3mo ago

It would probably be quicker to type it in than figure out how to OCR it. It would be like typing in a game from a COMPUTE! magazine 45 years go. https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/1983-01-compute-magazine/page/96...

wildzzz 3mo ago
At least that stuff was written in cleartext. You'd immediately know you just typed the wrong character if you saw PRONT on your screen.
marcus_holmes 3mo ago
This was my reaction! OCR? oh my sweet summer child, you cannot know the days we spent typing in raw code from a magazine, and the joy when it finally ran.

VladVladikoff 3mo ago

I watched the link but I didn’t see where he talked about making it difficult to OCR? What exactly was done that made it difficult to OCR?

novia 3mo ago
https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750 https://youtu.be/jocGLiecpjU?t=750

fennecfoxy 3mo ago

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.

kyusan0 3mo ago
Did it get every character correct?
- imp0cat 3mo ago
  I just tried, using https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.jpg https://tris.sherliker.net/assets/2026-07-04-cropped-script.... as a source and the answer is a resounding no.