#File Encryption

[robnergal-yt]

File Compression and Encryption

Better practice to compress before you encrypt.

If you are going to encrypt before you compress things, you had better be absolutely certain that it is a Lossless form of compression.

Why are you encrypting something that you need to compress anyway? weirdo

[filehulk]

Cryptomator

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[illaisland]

Ok so I'm finally watching Season 11 of The X-Files.

Episode 7 is called "Rm9sbG93ZXJz" which always bugged me cuz whenever anyone talked about it they called it the "sushi restaurant" episode. I avoided googling what the actual name meant cuz I didn't want spoilers.

But while watching the episode, right after the intro credits they flash this "VGhlIFRydXRoIGlzIE91dCBUaGVyZQ=" on the screen. And that's when I realized the episode title must be encrypted since this second encrypted text was obviously placed where "The Truth Is Out There" is typically placed.

So I ran both of them through this online tool called dcode and figured out they used base64 encoding to encrypt their messages.

You can play around with this tool here: https://www.dcode.fr/base-64-encoding

If you don't want to know what the results are...don't continue reading...

Maybe they reveal all this in the episode, idk I literally paused it at the credits screen to post this after figuring it out lol

So don't hate on me if this is obvious or well known. I just figured it out now and thought it was fun.

Rm9sbG93ZXJz -> "Followers"

VGhlIFRydXRoIGlzIE91dCBUaGVyZQ= -> "The Truth is Out There"

If one of you can figure out this text I encrypted using a different encoding, I'll send you a funny meme as a prize:

☌⟟⌰⌰⟟⏃⋏ ⏃⋏���⟒⍀⌇⍜⋏ ⟟⌇ ⏃ ☌⍜⎅⎅⟒⌇⌇ ⏃⋏⎅ ⍙⟒'⍀⟒ ⋏⍜⏁ ⍙⍜⍀⏁⊑⊬.

[just-ornstein]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE BEAKER CASTLE EVEN - A SimPE Deep Dive

Alright, so after stumbling upon some of the Beta pics on the Russian TheSims.cc site and this analysis post about the Beaker mansion, I became deeply curious if some of this would be reflected in the lot relationships. After all, some characters like Viola, Kelly, on top of several others could be found when digging through the raw and somewhat encrypted code of lots.

By now it's pretty clear that the Beaker home once belonged to this dude and his army of girlfriends (definitely check out the post I mentioned earlier). On top of that Loki (and possibly Circe) seems to have gone through at least two iterations before eventually settling on their final forms.

And on top of that whenever you scan the mansion in a completely new game, you will find fingerprints of primarily deceased Sims everywhere!

Now to get to the Sim relationships on the lot...

712 freaking Sim Relationships, all of which are unknown. Some of which still have stats set such as married, friends, relationship scores, etc. I tried comparing this to other lots in their neighborhood and NONE even come close. Both Olive and the Smiths have around 400. The other lots have below. And the only lots that are even a tad higher in this number are the Capps and the Summerdreams which makes sense when you realise that hood went through at least one other iteration before turning into Veronaville.

Now I wondered if the encrypted code (despite being very hard to read due to being partially encrypted) had any old Sim remnants left in there. And yep, several even. Many of which even have information such as their gender, hair, clothes and age in there. So lemme go over some of them:

1. First one, a guy who's name is partially encrypted so it will never fully be visible. It's not Johnny cause Johnny also has his character file on this lot.

A male teen with brown hair who used to wear the "tmbodyhoodedsweatshirtboardshorts" + the "tmhairhatcap" hairstyle.

2. Second is another teen, this time by the name of Zeeshan. He had black hair, the bucket hat hairstyle and wore the hooded sweatshirt, except with pants this time around (and grey apparently?).

3. The third was an adult male Sim by the name of Kenneth with black hair. Based on his info he was likely meant to be a Gardener Sim.

4. The fourth was one named Kana... Possibly a longer name cause once again the code becomes a bit shambled here. She too was meant to be a Gardener as seen by her outfit and hair data. Her hair would have been brown.

5. Elle, another female Gardener Sim, this one having red hair.

6. Vasyl, an adult male Sim who wore the busdriver outfit. Sadly his hair data seems to be blocked behind the code. For funsies I like to give the name to Bald Beta Loki, since he gives off that vibe. BUT, I think this was an NPC busdriver due to the outfit.

7. Joanne, an adult female Sim with an unknown hair colour in corn rows style and the classy afbodyjacketturtlesweaterdressboots. Sadly her ID is hidden behind the encrypted code, so it's hard to fully make out.

All of these Sims appear to be NPC/Townie Sims. None of them match ANYONE in the Beta pictures. And the current Townies/NPCs seem to have replaced them. Interestingly enough, those that were NPCs are still NPCs and those that were Townies are still Townies. Making me wonder if this is a thing that translates to other Sim IDs too. That Sims that were Townies in earlier iterations are still Townies in their new form. Same for NPCs and yep, Playables. This is merely an assumption I'm making on what I'm finding here, but if anyone can help research this further, that would be greatly appreciated, especially as this could mean the Viola ID may not belong to Viola Monty.

Viola is an odd case cause no outfit, hair or other data can be found in the lot file and she's only ever mentioned once in the context of lines filled with "sleep in pyjamas". But for now I cannot say anything with certainty unless more remnants of these old Sims could be found somewhere. OR, if these files could be read in its entirety which is quite difficult.

It's very hard to get a Sim ID attached to a lot (believe me I tried) and often times seems to rather happen accidentally than intentionally. Moving a Sim out or having a Sim die usually removes the data they once held to that lot. Good example is Loki in my current Strangetown who lived on this lot all of his life and when he died he had no remnants left on this lot.

REGARDLESS! The Beaker lot is ancient and seems to have been ground for a ton of testing, Sims and many more things. No wonder the Beakers got this home with its incredibly shady history. Half of the beta town was partying here!

[snoozingbear]

anne carson, economy of the unlost (reading simonides of keos with paul celan), 1999

[chicago-geniza]

My Fuckass Job update: we are officially banned from carrying books "on the floor," to combat...staff...reading on the job when it's slow instead of, idk, doing busywork or feigning looking busy. We work in a bookstore. I am sooo tempted to be pedantic and remonstrate with them on imprecise semantic terms but that would be unproductive in the extreme. It would, however, be very funny if we all pretended to take it literally and just stopped shelving/stocking/pulling for a week

[breadandlottery]

desperately trying to gif Squid Game/2001: A Space Odyssey cinematic parallels but I can't get a good copy of the movie for giffing

[metalandmagi]

Signal boosting for anyone who has a Kindle. On February 26th 2025, Amazon is removing the ability to download the kindle books you've bought to your computer.

Now, for everyone going "well, I don't read ebooks on my computer anyway, so it doesn't matter"...yes it does, because this means Amazon has complete control over the books you supposedly own. They can re-edit books and download them to your kindle automatically. They can remove books without your consent. It's basically the same as how digitally purchasing movies (or even streaming services) can manipulate your media without your knowledge. Also, if you want to get rid of your Amazon account at any point, that means you lose access to the books you've bought as well.

As of right now you can still use the download function, but there's not much time left.

[gothteddiesdotcom]

not to brag about being good at my job but I’ve now developed two separate tools for debugging entirely on my own within my company entirely from scratch without help and A. it makes my job so much fucking easier and B. my boss is thinks im incredible just because im too lazy to want to write the same bits of code over and over just for debugging purposes

[practicalsolutions]

In case you were wondering what it looks like to get pwned as a global megacorp.

[dumpy-dump]

[stormbreaker-290]

feel.like this should be mentioned

Mal has his own code/language

I'm going to use it to hide lore/ references in drawings >:3

(yes I just pulled a cipher, there's nothing you can do)

DHJDDKSHXJDJDJHS IM WRITJBG IT DOWN RN I AM . SHAKING UOU AROYND-

[wnterslder]

do you also ever think about lq bucky and/or tws images ?? headlines and reports calling him the winter soldier ?? online people / historians / others digging through thousands of files for any crumb of info about him ??

[indigitalembrace]

open fferritkmaas.png

FILE IS LOCKED. DO YOU HAVE THE KEY?

[starrynyxa]

whenever fob does something i go on an internet piracy arc except im actually not good at it so it doesnt even work

[snoozingbear]

joan didion, play it as it lays