The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins

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• loops@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  ;-;

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• ryan213@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    Usually from 9 to 5.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lucky. Seems like the sort of thing that would be gig work a lot of the time.

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  • SamVimes@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• derbis@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Man THIS is what the Internet was all about

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wonder how using a zip bomb works out…

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  • Gaywallet@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything is just a zip file with a different extension

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• dotslashme@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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