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15:13:39      krowbar | what do those patterns represent?                                │ khoi[detached]
15:14:07       sanqui | it's various files (such as html or python files) read as        │ krowbar 
                      | gameboy graphics                                                 │ NorBot  
15:14:19       sanqui | gameboy graphics is planar 8x8 tiles, two bits per pixel (2bpp)  │ papa    
15:15:12      krowbar | no color?                                                        │ pwalck  
15:15:27       sanqui | yeah                                                             │ reppard 
15:15:36       sanqui | I might think about how to colorize                              │ rklett  
15:15:49      krowbar | and it wraps at...?                                              │ sanqui  
15:15:57       sanqui | arbitrary                                                        │ selfsame
15:16:03       sanqui | I think I put in 240px?                                          │ tildebot
15:16:20      krowbar | very interesting                                                 │ topicbot
15:17:01       sanqui | it's pretty easy to identify ascii (and a lot of whitespace in   │ vilmibm
                      | it);                                                             │
15:17:11       sanqui | you can see that png files look like random noise, because       │
                      | they're compressed                                               │
15:17:34       sanqui | and you can see that .pyc bytecode has its own signature but is  │
                      | interleaved by ascii                                             │