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@vxo i won't find a clip of this easily but there's a bit in columbo s7ep3 "make me a perfect murder" where while avoiding columbo the murderer just randomly slaps every control on a 1970s broadcasting VTR and the viewer gets treated to a psychedelic view of peter falk behind every single possible video filter they had at the time which they were probably just flexing with

@vxo slamming my paw open across several clusters

dwm.exe was somehow choking it. killed the process, nothing seems to have changed behaviour so i'm not sure what from it was choking, but now my GPU usage cratered.

my GPU is idling at 80c... 🥲

i've also posted it on my non-tumblr blog now: https://maple.pet/blog/solving-a-base64-mystery-nobody-asked-for

@leadedsolder sexy ​

several hours later here's a writeup on how i did:

https://www.tumblr.com/maplesynth/742691202686730240

spoilers, i didn't recover the whole JPEG. but about half of it is intelligible

now i just need to sample the whole fuckin base64 alphabet

sickos voice after a few hours of python yes ha ha yes

@diazona yeah that's pretty much how i thought about doing it, i just wanted to know if someone already had so i don't have to reinvent the wheel 😅

@diazona given that windows cleartype makes every single character pixel perfect identical and i've reduced it to 16 colors for even higher accuracy and even I and l are distinctive (dunno which one is which, but i can tell the two apart) i think i'll get 100%. there's no way i'm typing all of it out lol it's massive

no conventional OCR does not work on this at all

is there a type of quasi-OCR already done that i can leverage to just recognize exact characters which are always rendered identically like this or do i need to get my paws dirty in the python mines

#programming #ocr #python

@triz@octodon.social so also against regular ghostbusters, id imagine

jackbox party pack 10 dodo re mi is really fun

@bustletonauto trunk full of pasta

is thermal grizzly a pun on thermal grease. did i just figure that out now. am i the last one to figure that out