@dgelessus

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person who computers. Casual disassembler of data formats. Standards and specifications enjoyer. Using Python for everything, even if it's a bad idea.

(really though, I'm just here to post silly puns)

^_^

GitHubhttps://github.com/dgelessus
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oh no, somebody got some YTP on the federal standard!

(... feeferal saasdard!)

when you're a cryptographer at NIST and *really* don't like Microsoft:

https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary?index=F

surprised that so far nobody has developed a Windows executable linker called "PE-LD" or "LDPE"

Another example, because it's just comically bad. This is on the German support page for "Installing Windows Updates" - not exactly a niche topic. The steps are *supposed* to read "Start ⊞ > Einstellungen ⚙️ > Windows Update 🔄 > ...", but the machine translation incorrectly mashed the first two steps together into one word. As a result, it couldn't figure out where the icons for "Start" and "Settings" belong anymore, so it just put them both together (in the wrong order).

https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/installieren-von-windows-updates-3c5ae7fc-9fb6-9af1-1984-b5e0412c556a

huh, I thought that more modern CPUs ran on *lower* voltages? but you do you, Intel
Do YOU want to morge continvoucly like all your coworkers, but without the risk of PR fallout due to obvious plagiarism? Try morging the oldschool way using JBIG2 - the definitely very real image compression standard that is like JPEG, but bigger. Featuring amazing grephics displey quality!
"Ironic. He could save others from bad OCR, but not himself."
Thank you, UK Government National Archives, that's not ominous at all
OpenStreetMap comment or rare British insult? You decide!
new SCP just dropped