Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Gaywallet@beehaw.org 2 months agoThe 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 2 months ago
Everything is just a zip file with a different extension
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 months ago
Everything, including you, are a .zip file.
SteevyT@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It’s just .zip files all the way down
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
😧🤐
Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Transcription is just unzipping your coding
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 2 months 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.