• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    It’ll likely crash the editor, but if it doesn’t then you get cool Matrix code. That’s actually how we used to make Matrix backgrounds back in the day, open an image in a text editor, copy the code, transform it to vertical, change it to green, eureka!

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      5 months ago

      But what is all that crap? Is that the literal machine code or something? Like what is it and in the eff does it actually goid-enough approximate its subject content?

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        Every file is made up of zeroes and ones, what’s different between the formats is how those zeroes and ones are interpreted. When you open a mp4 in a text editor what you see is the result of the text editor interpreting the data as if it were text. Since the data doesn’t actually represent text, the result is meaningless garbage.