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N-gated Hacker News

🤔 Oh, you wanted to know where the #bytes go? Well, let's take a thrilling tour through the #labyrinth of #syscalls, because nothing screams excitement like relentless file paths and arcane #assembly #language. 🚀 Spoiler alert: it's all gloriously tedious, but don't worry, your bytes are probably somewhere safe... or not. 🤷‍♂️
flak.tedunangst.com/post/where #tech #thrill #HackerNews #ngated

flak.tedunangst.comwhere do the bytes go?
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N-gated Hacker News

🚀Behold, the riveting saga of 'Compound File Binary Format' on Wikipedia, where #ASCII warriors battle for #bytes and #FAT sectors are the new #Hollywood stars. 🎬 Get ready to dive into riveting #subsections like "CFBF Header Format" while contributors valiantly toggle between obscurity and irrelevance. 🛡️💾
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound #CompoundFile #BinaryFormat #HackerNews #ngated

en.wikipedia.orgCompound File Binary Format - Wikipedia
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coreyja

New Byte just dropped! This one is a small color blending CLI, and I like the bugs that are hidden in it! Feels like a more realistic bug than some of our other ideas!

Bytes are little code review games we've been working on! You get a little code diff, and your job is to review the code for a handful of bugs that are sprinkled in. The more you find the higher a score you get! This weeks challenge has three bugs for you the sleuth out!

Check it out!
coreyja.com/bytes/color-blendi

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Pito Salas

Ever wanted to understand UTF8 better? Every programming language does it a little different but utf8 is utf8. This article explains it well, in general, and specifically for python.
#utf8 #bytes #python #strings #explainer : "`bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 Encoding"(thepythoncodingstack.com/p/byt)

The Python Coding Stack • by Stephen Gruppetta · `bytes`: The Lesser-Known Python Built-In Sequence • And Understanding UTF-8 EncodingBy Stephen Gruppetta
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Christoph Brodesser :mastodon:

Das bekräftigt die Entscheidung #Pistorius‘, in der @Bundeswehr die Teilstreitkraft #CIR (Cyber- und Informationsraum) zu stärken und weiter auszubauen. Bewaffnete Angriffe geschehen heute nicht mehr nur mit #Bomben 💣 und #Granaten, sondern auch mit #Bits und #Bytes. Auch davor müssen wir uns verteidigen können, um nicht hilflos zum Spielball Dritter zu werden.

n-tv.de/politik/Bundesregierun

n-tv NACHRICHTEN · "Eindeutiges" Ergebnis: Bundesregierung: Russland steckt hinter Cyberangriff auf SPDBy n-tv NACHRICHTEN
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Jonas

Here I was, all these years, thinking the macOS Finder reports file size in MiB (binary based, basically dividing the number of bytes by 1024 twice), but this just shows how old I am now. Fact is, it's been reporting MB (#bytes / 1000 / 1000) since OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)–which came out in 2009.

(via apple.stackexchange.com/questi and support.apple.com/en-us/102119)

And yes, this doesn't relate to the zips directly, but I found out about this while opening one, so ... it counts.

Ask DifferentHow can I force MacOS to make a binary conversion of filesizes in MB, GB...?I noticed that MacOS (10.6) makes a decimal conversion for file sizes, instead of binary: Is there any way to force it to make binary conversions instead in Finder? Because my mind kinda works...
#FileFormats#macos
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