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Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 10 months ago

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 10 months ago
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I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes
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    Everything is just a zip file with a different extension

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      Seriously though, it’s been some time be afaik any microsoft product file that ends in x, .docx, .xlsx, .pbix are all just archives and you can totally interact with them programmatically if you want. Really easy to corrupt them but hey, found it interesting years ago.

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      I take issue with “everything”, as most things are not. But it is a common trick when a developer wants to make a “new” file format that encapsulates a bunch of different files.

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        Everything, including you, is a .zip file.

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          It’s just .zip files all the way down

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            I just came here to say stuffit.

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          Transcription is just unzipping your coding

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            Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

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          😧🤐

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