It's quite a recent addition to Unicode, so I choose to believe they wanted to write this emoji program for many years already, but couldn't until now.
My favorite of late. I send this one at inappropriate times followed immediately by the "correct" emoji and asterisks for a laugh. Has yet to fail me, especially in group chats. Example:
Them: omg work today blows
Me: Oof that sucks
Me: ☹️**
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.
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'.
(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)
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.
Does your emoji keyboard also allow arbitrarily adding Variation Selectors 16 (aka Force Color Emoji Presentation, U+FE0F, or UTF-8 EF B8 8F), also used after a few emoji in the code? (It probably does insert one for characters like ♀️ whose codepoints default to non-emoji but you'll need a non-emoji-compatible text editor and keyboard to separate it)
Edit: that's probably only a concern with the MANDEL.COM program. This 141-byte one uses variation selectors the normal way.
I was a DOS 'programmer' long before I migrated to Linux - the same way some guy who used to write bat files with environment variables and errorlevel commands might migrate to a shell script.
What I really wanted was to be able to embed ^g into the Linux command line prompt, but so far I haven't been able to. On DOS I could add ^g (the Bell character) to the prompt so each time a command finished it beeped.
I had to do some really wacky stuff but I finally got all manner of beeps and boops from the motherboard speaker last month (aftermarket addon). Stuff like beep on startup, buzz when moving a window, different quick peeps when clicking, doubleclicking or right clicking. I had it for about an afternoon and then my partner raged at all the noise :/ now my computer are silent and boring again
I have a slightly more advanced setup which uses post-command hooks to send a desktop notification when a command has been running for over 3 seconds. That notification contains the elapsed time and the exit code too, and plays a different sound depending on whether the command was successful or not. This allows for some neat integrations with KDE connect to let me know when some long compile has finished or something even when I'm away from my computer. You can see how it works here.
Now make one with invisible/whitespace characters only. There's 0D CR, 0A LF, 09 tab, 20 space, different-width spaces, zero width modifiers and 256 variation selectors: 16 in the BMP (U+FE0x, or UTF-8 EF B8 80) plus 240 in the E-plane (U+E0100, or F3 A0 84 80 up to U+E01EF, or F3 A0 87 AF).
48 Comments
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 139 pts · 3d
Reminded me of the illegal prime number https://web.archive.org/web/20101127060515/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03/19/dvd_descrambler_encoded_in_illegal/
... that just so happens to decrypt DVD video.
xthexder@l.sw0.com · 19 pts · 3d
There's a few of these. I particularly like the "free speech flag": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Zarobi@aussie.zone · 76 pts · 3d
For some reason the inclusion of this emoji sends me
^^
^
^boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 30 pts · 3d
That emoji is incidentally how I feel about this whole thing being possible
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 3d
It's quite a recent addition to Unicode, so I choose to believe they wanted to write this emoji program for many years already, but couldn't until now.
Artaca@lemdro.id · 9 pts · 3d
My favorite of late. I send this one at inappropriate times followed immediately by the "correct" emoji and asterisks for a laugh. Has yet to fail me, especially in group chats. Example:
Them: omg work today blows Me: Oof that sucks Me: ☹️**
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 3d
HAha I love this emoji. I've been using it like this memeable Willem Dafoe image
thisNotMyName@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
TIL that is Willem Dafoe - would have never recognized him from that perspective :D
Hupf@feddit.org · 6 pts · 2d
Jebediah Kerman
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
If you can't see it, it's here , do ctrl + f on this page :
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 3d
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 72 pts · 3d
Base64 is history. I'm going to encode all my binary data in emojis from now on!
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3d
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.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 49 pts · 3d
I'm guessing those emoji happen to encode the opcodes for a program?
black0ut@pawb.social · 77 pts · 3d
Yeah. This method is really cool, and it has been used for legitimate cases before. Look at the EICAR file:
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.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 3d
Neat.
dadabean@feddit.org · 38 pts · 3d
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3d
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'.
Yaky@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 3d
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.ca · 13 pts · 3d
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.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d
monotremata@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Huh, I wonder if that's where his name came from.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
Had the same thought, would be pretty cool/interesting if so.
(Owwwwwww)
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 3d
Damn, I didn't realize I could type machine code with my emoji keyboard
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
Does your emoji keyboard also allow arbitrarily adding Variation Selectors 16 (aka Force Color Emoji Presentation, U+FE0F, or UTF-8
EF B8 8F), also used after a few emoji in the code? (It probably does insert one for characters like ♀️ whose codepoints default to non-emoji but you'll need a non-emoji-compatible text editor and keyboard to separate it)Edit: that's probably only a concern with the MANDEL.COM program. This 141-byte one uses variation selectors the normal way.
Edit: except ♐, which does NOT get one
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 12 pts · 3d
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:}
zurohki@aussie.zone · 19 pts · 3d
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 17 pts · 3d
Righto :)
I was a DOS 'programmer' long before I migrated to Linux - the same way some guy who used to write bat files with environment variables and errorlevel commands might migrate to a shell script.
What I really wanted was to be able to embed ^g into the Linux command line prompt, but so far I haven't been able to. On DOS I could add ^g (the Bell character) to the prompt so each time a command finished it beeped.
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 3d
I had to do some really wacky stuff but I finally got all manner of beeps and boops from the motherboard speaker last month (aftermarket addon). Stuff like beep on startup, buzz when moving a window, different quick peeps when clicking, doubleclicking or right clicking. I had it for about an afternoon and then my partner raged at all the noise :/ now my computer are silent and boring again
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 5 pts · 3d
Now you need a proximity sensor to mute it only when your partner is nearby :)
Mine is still tolerating my "Eddie Izzard covered in bees person on the street reaction sound' sms notification sound.
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 3d
I have a slightly more advanced setup which uses post-command hooks to send a desktop notification when a command has been running for over 3 seconds. That notification contains the elapsed time and the exit code too, and plays a different sound depending on whether the command was successful or not. This allows for some neat integrations with KDE connect to let me know when some long compile has finished or something even when I'm away from my computer. You can see how it works here.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
On old unix systems, you could rename /dev/null and symlink /dev/audio to /dev/null...
Then you just had to wait.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3d
I'm pretty sure Konsole has a setting for that
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
I'll have a hunt later. The work laptop is Ubuntu so might not be as flexible. Home is Debian for now.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3d
I'm pretty sure it's under the View menu
angband@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3d
Edlin and debug allowed fast com file programming.
🐸☺️🐰🐎♐🗃️🧯🧯🧯🐮💗🦮♐🐰🐹🗃️🧯🧯🧯🧯💗🪗🧯😗🧮😗🧮😗🐮😪😔⭐
But that's neat.
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 3d
So what does it actually do? rm -rf or something like that?
SomeRandomNoob@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 3d
I tried it. It works. Now i feel dirty. :(
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1d
You should. You just executed:
The only way you're not going to hell is by being an actual Satanist (he'll deny you the pleasure)
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Abusing Dos is for oldies.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3d
Hush, child, the grownups are talking.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3d
@ECHO OFF
ECHO Beginning critical system diagnostic...
PAUSE
ECHO.
ECHO Analyzing user competence level...
PAUSE
ECHO.
ECHO Diagnostic complete.
ECHO.
ECHO Result: Computer is fine. You, however, remain the weakest
ECHO component in this system.
ECHO.
ECHO Have a nice day.
db2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
PEBKAC.BAT
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 5 pts · 3d
Wow, you sure demonstrated your superior competence level with those echo statements.
Kojichan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
You forgot a few random REM statements that don't actually do anything even if you uncomment them.
DosDude@retrofed.com · 9 pts · 3d
I feel attacked
lengau@midwest.social · 4 pts · 3d
Thanks for reminding me that my back hurts.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1d
Now make one with invisible/whitespace characters only. There's
0DCR,0ALF,09tab,20space, different-width spaces, zero width modifiers and 256 variation selectors: 16 in the BMP (U+FE0x, or UTF-8EF B8 80) plus 240 in the E-plane (U+E0100, orF3 A0 84 80up to U+E01EF, orF3 A0 87 AF).