Charlie StrossI'm just about okay with emoji in filenames but I draw the line at animated gifs and ringtones!
https://23.social/@leyrer/114648865072884127
https://23.social/@leyrer/114648865072884127
The Penguin of Evil@cstross Seen enough modern scripting code that I'm still scared of spaces in file names
@etchedpixels Coming next: a filesystem that lets you embed Javascript in filenames and executes them when you call fopen() on the file
@cstross Disturbingly that's a fairly small FUSE driver. Please don't give them ideas.
Parade du Grotesque ๐Are you... OK?
Do you need someone to talk to?
Should @etchedpixels and myself organize a rescue operation? An intervention? ๐
Hugo Mills@cstross @etchedpixels There's a convention with btrfs to use an @ prefix on subvolume names. Some people use ๐ or ๐ฎ as the prefix instead, because it's a CoW filesystem...
โฅแตแตโCแตธแตแถบแตแถซโธแตแต โ๏ธ
Uilebheist@cstross @etchedpixels You might also remember this from 25 years ago:
a filesystem that evaluates Perl expressions
with an example like:
$ cd 'map { my $x = 2**$_; sprintf "%2d %s", $_, $x } 0..20'
$ ls
0 1 4 16 8 256 12 4096 16 65536 20 1048576
1 2 5 32 9 512 13 8192 17 131072
2 4 6 64 10 1024 14 16384 18 262144
3 8 7 128 11 2048 15 32768 19 524288
(Not written by me! I'm copying from an email)
David Cantrell ๐@Uilebheist @cstross @etchedpixels "This ... will execute the command embedded in that filename" - https://security.metacpan.org/2025/06/06/two-arg-open.html (hat-tip to @rrwo)
Jernej Simoncฬiฤ ๏ฟฝ@cstross How about emoji in passwords?
https://eternallybored.org/imgs/compstuff/emojipassword1.png
(linking to image, because upload fails for some reason; alt text: Windows 10 password change screen, with confirmation password being revealed to be test๐๐คฆ)
Willem Janssen@cstross I tried ๐.exe and it works fine. Renders properly in process explorer and everything. A bit of a ๐คฏ moment, but less scary than spaces.
Paul Lalonde@cstross I have an executable file called "rm -rf"
Neia masks
David S
Alister Bulman
Thomas Mayer@Flux @cstross
I use a driver for a graphics card
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issues/123
install script does rm -rf /usr for ubuntu ยท Issue #123 ยท MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned
An extra space at line 351: rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg causes the install.sh script to do an rm -rf on the /usr directory for people installing in ubuntu. Totally uncool dude!!! The ...
Wulfy
Jyrgen N
Martin Haลฟeneyer@cstross I thought Emojis are for passwords, but again something learned.
Orb 2069
Robert Petersen 
Atomic Orbitals@cstross Now I just had the thought of the Crazy Frog ringtone in a filename or URL... *shudder*
Kobold
Ge0rG@cstross @leyrer Ringtones in filenames? I was so preoccupied with whether or not I could, I didn't stop to think if I should.
๐ Sound on!
P.S: The delay added by ansi music would also allow animated gifs. With sound!
#SorryNotSorry #ANSI
Wilfried Klaebe
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Sam Livingston-Gray
Choobs
robb@dlx the file names contain regular ANSI sequences. To trick `ls` into showing them, you need two things:
export QUOTING_STYLE=literal
alias ls='ls --show-control-chars'
The emoji filename is a 7x7 pixel art spread over 7 lines, using spaces and `Esc[41m` sequences, with the files created in order, with a small delay (therefore `ls -tr`).
The ringtone is the obscure ANSI music extension http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/ "rendered" with SyncTERM 1.4
w4tsn ~> 
SkaveRat ๐ 
Dirk Willrodt@Garonenur sorry, I don't know anything about detox.
@ge0rg
https://linux.die.net/man/1/detox
I use this if I get files from windows users or with filenames generated by programs without manners.
It removes spaces and changes everything to standard ASCII.
@Garonenur TIL. It removes the Esc control codes, but leaves the payloads of the Esc sequences:
Matthias V
Thomas B. Rรผcker@tbr
Well, I didn't want to write my own music sheet, so I used one from http://artscene.textfiles.com/ansimusic/songs/
A nice flashback into monophonous ring tones anyway. Reminds me of when I IrDA-sent a MIDI to my Siemens S25, and the first track was only background that made the phone sound like an electric shaver.