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   Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:33:23 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

   I wrote a program called freq which shows stats on the most frequent lines in a file, similar to what you'd get from a sort | uniq -c | sort -rn pipeline.

   This obliged me to implement an easter egg...

   https://github.com/ryancdotorg/freq/blob/main/src/egg.rs

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:43:13 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     There was a cartoon in the mid 90s called "Freakazoid!" about a teenager who got "sucked into the internet" due to a bug in the "Pinnacle" chip (definitely not the Pentium FDIV bug), imbuing him with the power to turn into "Freakazoid" by saying "freak out".

     I wrote a custom decompressor for ANSI art based on canonical huffman coding because why not?

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:46:21 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     Wow, I just looked it up, Freakazoid! came out less than a year after the Pentium FDIV bug it lampooned. A more innocent time, when one could imagine getting sucked into the internet might merely drive one to zaniness rather than complete an utter madness.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 23:55:27 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     The original ANSI image was generated using tv from https://github.com/daleroberts/tv, then I generated a reduced palette using imagemagick and remapped the colors with terrible shell scripting.

     The compressed data was generated by a python script, which builds lookup tables for colors and characters, converts the original data into a stream of "symbols", then uses huffman coding to store them.

     The decompression code is only a couple dozen lines.

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 00:00:18 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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     Canonical huffman codes are neat because you can reconstruct them just based on how many codes there were of each bit length.

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     Dr. Russ (dntlookbehindu@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 00:16:10 JST Dr. Russ

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     @ryanc freak a do...

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     Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 01:05:17 JST Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

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