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[-] loops@beehaw.org 27 points 1 month ago

The next one contained a Flintstones rule 34 image, which I won’t include here for obvious reasons.

;-;

[-] ryan213@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Imagine having the time to just do this. Lol I imagine I'd do the same thing, actually.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So how does the heavier-when-inflated bowling pin man work? Does it thrust downwards somehow?

[-] Kissaki@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

So how does the heavier-when-inflated bowling pin man work?

Usually from 9 to 5.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lucky. Seems like the sort of thing that would be gig work these days.

[-] SamVimes@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Likely answer —we're being nerds and reading too much into it.

No—
—3 lbs of thrust isn't going to be happening, speaking from experience with model planes.
—3lbs of the air inside is compressed and weighs more is even farther from possible.

Likely—
—It only has the battery, fan, whatever when it's running, and they don't count that when it's uninflated for some reason. Like how cars have dry weight, curb weight, and gvrw.
—somewhere in the spec sheets, someone made a mistake, two people worked on things and rounded differently, some other clerical/communicative error.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It could also be just what it "feels like", based on the measurement method of "made it the fuck up".

[-] derbis@beehaw.org 8 points 1 month ago

Man THIS is what the Internet was all about

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

How do these contain random files like this? Isn’t it just a file that applies some kind of visual effect to the media player?

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

They're zip files, with the extension renamed. So you could probably have almost anything in one.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

Oh so they’re actually created the same way as a zip file? That makes sense I guess. Thanks.

[-] christophski@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago

It is literally a zip file. If I remember correctly you have to write some xml which describes the layout of the skin and then include any images you need, you then zip it and change the file extension to wsz. So really you could put anything in a skin.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

A surprising number of "file formats" these days are really just zip files with a standard for the filenames and folders contained within. There's likely a ton of wonderful secrets like these to be found in the collective dataspace of humanity.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Wonder how using a zip bomb works out...

[-] PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

I was thinking of moving my "system32" porn archive into a winamp skin. Teenage me would be very proud

[-] Gaywallet@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

The author touches on this near the beginning-

Winamp skins are actually just zip files with a different file extension

So they're treating them like archives and extracting them

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 1 month ago

Everything is just a zip file with a different extension

[-] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everything, including you, is a .zip file.

[-] SteevyT@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

It's just .zip files all the way down

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I just came here to say stuffit.

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Transcription is just unzipping your coding

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago

The nostalgia is strong in this one, I love these discoveries.

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