Imagine having the time to just do this. Lol I imagine I’d do the same thing, actually.
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
Submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins/
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ryan213@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
So how does the heavier-when-inflated bowling pin man work? Does it thrust upwards somehow?
Kissaki@beehaw.org 1 year ago
So how does the heavier-when-inflated bowling pin man work?
Usually from 9 to 5.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Lucky. Seems like the sort of thing that would be gig work a lot of the time.
SamVimes@beehaw.org 1 year 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 1 year ago
It could also be just what it “feels like”, based on the measurement method of “made it the fuck up”
derbis@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Man THIS is what the Internet was all about
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year 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 1 year ago
They’re zip files, with the extension renamed. So you could probably have almost anything in one.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Oh so they’re actually created the same way as a zip file? That makes sense I guess. Thanks.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Wonder how using a zip bomb works out…
Gaywallet@beehaw.org 1 year 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 1 year ago
Everything is just a zip file with a different extension
dotslashme@infosec.pub 11 months ago
The nostalgia is strong in this one, I love these discoveries.
loops@beehaw.org 1 year ago
;-;