• Schwim Dandy@piefed.zip
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    14 days ago

    I am not intelligent enough to understand any of it but that was a fun read.

    TIL the origin of Courier.

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      14 days ago

      Long story short:

      • Some of the emails in the file dump had attachments.
      • The way attachments work in emails is that they’re converted to encoded text.
      • That encoded text was included - badly - in the file dump.
      • So it’s theoretically possible to convert them back to the original files, but it will take work to get the text back. Every character has to be exactly correct.

      Source: I’m a software developer and I’m currently trying to recover one of these attachments.