remember when we were all really impressed by those manually justified TXT files? i just learned about @tom7's justified TXT file that's also AN EXECUTABLE x86 BINARY not a shell script. exe binary. that happens to also be printable ascii.

Jan 10, 2023 · 6:03 PM UTC

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unfortunately the printable subset of x86 doesn't have any way to actually print anything to the screen, so it can't output any text but apparently it *can* write to a sound card. so it plays music!
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video: piped.video/LA_DrBwkiJA paper: tom7.org/abc/

Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper

In this oddly paced "educational" video, I explain how I created a paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 that consists of only printable ASCII bytes, but is also a valid D...

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Replying to @prerationalist
OK but the text justification is not impressive here because I just inserted multiple spaces! (Though I certainly did think about doing it Super Metroid style!)
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Replying to @prerationalist @tom7
Tom7's work is such a gem! If you're into computers and haven't seen his projects "Harder Drives" and "NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS", drop everything, humor me, and take a look: piped.video/watch?v=JcJSW7Rp… piped.video/watch?v=5TFDG-y-…

NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS

A new kind of computer architecture that's more elegant than 1s and 0s, being based directly on Mathematics.Note: Everything in here is real (IEEE-754), but ...

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