mccDec 14, 2022
TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY
Prolific sunset at St Mary Lake, Glacier National Park

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There was an actual IRL SCP / machine basilisk in the world and it remained effective for almost a year
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The most amazing part of the video is where the author is trying to figure out if the file was maliciously crafted so he recreates the image from scratch and accidentally kills his phone
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This is making me think about making an "irl-basilisks" Github repo containing the Excessively Loud Sunset, Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" and a copy of the EICAR test file. Probably a bad idea because sometime in 2026 I'd wind up including "entirely innocuous image that incorrectly trips neural network CSAM scanners" and then I'd get banned from Github https://mastodon.social/@miah@hachyderm.io/109513848856267780
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The more I think about this the funnier I am finding it because I'm realizing it would be entirely reasonable to include a text file containing only the word "Memphis"*

* During Mar. 14 2021, Twitter instabanned anyone who posted the word "Memphis" (thread: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1371170131477401604)

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“The account is back now, but as far as I can tell, only because he deleted the tweet that said M-- that said-- that said the name of the city in Tennessee that Twitter bans people for talking about ?!??! ?”

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