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   Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:14:42 JST Professor_Stevens

   I feel dumb. Usually, these geek-shirt jokes are pretty obvious. I'm sure this one will be too.

   As soon as someone here explains it to me.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:14:41 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Professor_Stevens No idea, sorry. It’s not ASCII. Some sort of niche code?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:18:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Professor_Stevens OK, replace the sixes with ones and it spells out Geek in binary.

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:38:45 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     • Aral Balkan
     it's hex-binary ascii, one character per line.
     hex as in 6, standing for nonzero binary digits.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:40:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     @Professor_Stevens Something tells me someone might have been a little confused :)

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     Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:40:47 JST Professor_Stevens

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral

     Huh. You're right. It sure does. But what's the point of using the digit "6" here? Is it a play on words? Does "six geek" mean anything? Is "six" supposed to be homonymic with "sex?" Or "sicks," maybe?

     I think there's more to this.