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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 02:34:40 JST Adrian Cochrane

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   • codesections
   • Tony Greenberg :clubtwit: 🌐

   @BayesicTony @codesections Signed or unsigned? If signed is it 1's Complement, 2's Complement, or Sign Bit? Or is it actually a character(s), if so is it Unicode, ASCII, or an older encoding?

   I tend to have a big problem with movie characters recognizing that something is "in binary" & finding that to be enough information to understand it!

   • Tony Greenberg :clubtwit: 🌐 (bayesictony@twit.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 02:34:48 JST Tony Greenberg :clubtwit: 🌐

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     • codesections

     @codesections Seems like there is a proliferation of unknowns. E.g., is it big or little endian?

   • codesections (codesections@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 02:34:49 JST codesections

     I recently received a gift of some socks with binary data printed on them. My first reaction was:

     “Cool – but what does it say? Surely it must say *something*, even if it's gibberish”

     But, on closer examination, I don't know how to read the binary. In fact, I (quite literally) don't even know where to start: because the sock is cylindrical, there isn't a clear first number in any row. It could start anywhere!

     So, how do I find the secret message in my socks?