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New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:32:37 +0000

Thank you, I think you're right! I've added a correction in the post and cited your comment.

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:50:44 +0000

That's a new one and oddly apt :)

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:49:53 +0000

(Author here) for unrelated reasons my typing is very slow at the moment, so I was keen to automate. I see that people are getting different results from Claude than I did though.

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:48:05 +0000

Maybe useful for those XS sizes.

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:47:30 +0000

It might not have filled up the whole shirt then?

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:47:02 +0000

Author here. All hallucinations are my own. Now you point it out, I see why the jump in context from the terminal back to the tshirt font would give the wrong impression.

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:25:36 +0000

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.

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:22:49 +0000

(Author here) Yes I agree. It was a fun side-quest though. Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1205/

New comment by speerer in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:21:33 +0000

Author here - that's a good idea actually, it shouldn't be too hard to compare the various attempts. The tools I used were whatever my Android built-in is (likely Google Gemini, but I can't tell whether this is something Samsung has replaced in OneUI); tesseract; tesseract with various tweaks and charsrt restrictions; Claude; and finally, manual fixes based on disagreements between all the previous.

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

speerer — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:46:06 +0000

Article URL: https://tris.sherliker.net/blog/obfuscated-self-evaluating-bash-script-by-cdn-akamai-being-supplied-to-consumers-via-retail-stores/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48829312

Points: 1134

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New comment by speerer in "The Useful Personal Computer"

speerer — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:58:13 +0000

> To market their new products to people who had not already spent years pining for a computer of their own, the creators of the second wave of microcomputers had to face head on the question of what the microcomputer was actually good for.

This is exactly the task of ChatGPT's current consumer advertising campaign in the UK. Lots of small use cases.

New comment by speerer in "Ripgrep 15.0"

speerer — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 22:36:25 +0000

"something" I expect.

New comment by speerer in "Old Stockholm Telephone Tower"

speerer — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:20:29 +0000

I just wanted to say that after the first paragraph, I wondered who this comment was written by, and then I realised I knew the answer already. There was no need for me to even check.

New comment by speerer in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

speerer — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:45:03 +0000

> The phrase's misuse implies that evidence against a statement supports the statement.

The original meaning of 'prove' was more like 'test'. The original sense was therefore opposite to this.

New comment by speerer in "Which colours dominate movie posters and why?"

speerer — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:29:00 +0000

That particular poster has pink on the left and purple on the right.

New comment by speerer in "Japan's Creepiest Station"

speerer — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:50:39 +0000

Autotranslate below. The 'unclear' was added by me and originally read "Welcome to Japan's No.1 Google", which seems like it might be ab error.

Welcome to "Japan's No.1 [unclear]"

・This staircase is 338 meters long and has 462 steps. Climb up the steps and go through a 143 meter (24 step) connecting passage to reach the ticket gate.

Also, the altitude of this downhill platform is 583 meters above sea level, and the altitude is 653.7 meters, and there is a difference in elevation of 70.7 meters between this and the downhill platform.

It takes approximately 10 minutes to reach the ticket gate.

Please be careful where you step.

New comment by speerer in "Microsoft keeps adding stuff into Windows we don't need"

speerer — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:00:25 +0000

Beyond the headline, this is an interesting article listing ideas for useful features people might want.

New comment by speerer in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

speerer — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:17:36 +0000

Do you mean in the USA, perhaps? It's used more prevalently there, I think it's more likely for an average citizen to refer to a document than a collection of laws and customs. But I don't think that contex overtakes the original meaning.

New comment by speerer in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

speerer — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:58:06 +0000

We already have a constitution. It just isn't a written constitution:

> The United Kingdom constitution is composed of the laws and rules that create the institutions of the state, regulate the relationships between those institutions, or regulate the relationship between the state and the individual. These laws and rules are not codified in a single, written document.

Source for that quote is parliamentary: https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-com... - a publication from 2015 which considered and proposed a written constitution. But other definitions include unwritten things like customs and conventions. For example:

> It is often noted that the UK does not have a ‘written’ or ‘codified’ constitution. It is true that most countries have a document with special legal status that contains some of the key features of their constitution. This text is usually upheld by the courts and cannot be changed except through an especially demanding process. The UK, however, does not possess a single constitutional document of this nature. Nevertheless, it does have a constitution. The UK’s constitution is spread across a number of places. This dispersal can make it more difficult to identify and understand. It is found in places including some specific Acts of Parliament; particular understandings of how the system should operate (known as constitutional conventions); and various decisions made by judges that help determine how the system works.

https://consoc.org.uk/the-constitution-explained/the-uk-cons...

New comment by speerer in "One Million Screenshots"

speerer — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:41:40 +0000

Take heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging:

- Open source wasm runtime

- Science transparency campaign

- Netherlands gov anti-climate change program

- open thesaurus

- GNOME conference

- France's portal of towns and cities

- Scientific measurement standardistion page

- Scientific journal

- free eBook library

- parked domain

- Linux community

- Open source graphics library

- placeholder/template blog

- A book publisher (selling books!)

It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.