• Abyssian@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 hours ago

    The circle is now complete. It began with coding in raw machine language, and it ends in coding entirely in emojis. The prophecy has been fulfilled. The end is nigh.

    Somebody set up us the bomb. All our base are belong to them. You have no chance to survive make your time. Move ‘ZIG’.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Right, it should work great for anything you need to copy paste and want more compact on the screen, or for urls too. Even for checksums.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.net
    18·
    12 hours ago

    This reminds me of “bugoga” from the olden days.

    (Circa 2007 on bashorgru, there was a meme about writing “bugoga” into a text file, renaming it to exe and then running it. That made the cursor jump around the console and if you had a connected matrix printer, it would start going crazy - something about writing spaces to all available output in an endless loop)

    • monotremata@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      It kind of reminds me of a thing from the Apple IIe. If you were running a program on that machine and it crashed, it would often crash into this built-in micro debugger mode that gave you a * prompt. The normal boot-up ] prompt accepted BASIC and PRODOS commands, but the * prompt was for working with the Apple microassembler, and it was NOT user-friendly to the average young geek. So I learned exactly one command, which was 3D0G. My understanding was that this was an unconditional jump command to the place that PRODOS was normally loaded into memory at boot, so if the program hadn’t overwritten that, it would get you back to the ] prompt. (Otherwise you had to turn the computer off and on again so it would reload from ROM, which wasn’t a huge problem anyway, but this was a bit faster.) But I’m not actually sure exactly what it did. Anyway, it was memorable enough (since the zero looked close to an O that I could remember it as “three dogs”) that I held on to it. Not actually important, just, y’know, kinda fun.

    • black0ut@pawb.social
      72·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah. This method is really cool, and it has been used for legitimate cases before. Look at the EICAR file:

      X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

      It is a test file for malware detection software (in fact, it will still get flagged today if you try to send it, download it or save it to your disk). It prints “EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!” when run.

      It was purposefully made so all the opcodes appeared as characters you can type on a standard keyboard. That way, anyone can write the file themselves even if they don’t have internet or a way to download it. It’s also easier to get it into test containers/VMs that are isolated from the internet or physical hardware, which is where most malware testing happens.

  • angband@lemmy.world
    11·
    15 hours ago

    Edlin and debug allowed fast com file programming.

    🐸☺️🐰🐎♐🗃️🧯🧯🧯🐮💗🦮🪏♐🐰🐹🗃️🧯🧯🧯🧯💗🪗🧯😗🧮🫪😗🧮😗🐮😪😔⭐

    But that’s neat.

  • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    16 hours ago

    I vaguely recall that typing ‘copy con clock$’ would freeze a computer.

    On DOS you could also have fun by replacing prompt $p$g with prompt {whatever text you want instead of c:}