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Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders

41 points| danwilkerson | 1 year ago |danwilkerson.com

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snypher|1 year ago

I'm confused by the card "hope you soar in 2024". This card was mailed this year? I don't understand the footnote about 2/19. Was it sent in February 2024 and just posted about now?

leptons|1 year ago

I used to do this when I designed rave flyers in the 1990s.

bagpuss|1 year ago

tell us more?

Duanemclemore|1 year ago

I once worked at an architecture firm where one of the principles was problematic and my coworker who worked with him directly was constantly cleaning up his messes, etc. (Don't worry, the guy was just a tool, this wasn't an HR matter.)

I have always been a "hacker" at heart. Although I couldn't express my thoughts on the guy publicly, I DID add a new linetype to the file which sets them in Autocad which had a rude message about him. The scale was so small It looked like a solid line, but if you were in the file and zoomed in you could see it repeated over and over.

Thinking back, I don't know if any files with that linetype went out to consultants, but if they did the consultants either didn't catch it or kept my secret.

odirf|1 year ago

Looks great, thanks for sharing this!

fitsumbelay|1 year ago

extremely cool

ttyprintk|1 year ago

I’ve seen this embedded within geographic paths that form polygons. There are many points along each side of a polygon, arranged so that each segment length is longer (1) or shorter (0) than the one before. Decrypts to two floats, offsets from the first point.