kopper 
d@nny disc@ mc²@kopper oh i should totally do this
@kopper i do this for the % vertical progress indicator for lines from the top
@kopper it's not a goddamn huffman code huffman did one thing that is very natural and not at all related to the multitude of extensions after it
@kopper correct but
the bitstream is much more colorful and chaotic because good compression algorithms output data that looks visually random.
ma'am. you cannot just say this like it's a fun fact. it's such an important thing
@kopper had a rly cool chat on this https://mstdn.social/@simonomi/116326035578076343
alice pellerin (@[email protected])
@[email protected] it mostly came from the intuition of having look at so many different types of binary. stuff with really high information density (compressed, executable, media, etc) tends to look very busy, because there's simply more information squished into fewer bytes i've ended up writing my own whole fancy binary parsing system for my tool carbonizer. it's pretty specialized to the patterns used in the game files for Fossil Fighters, but i'm reasonably happy with it overall