#file encryption

[robnergal-yt]

File Compression and Encryption

Better practice to compress before you encrypt.

If you are going to encrypt before you compress things, you had better be absolutely certain that it is a Lossless form of compression.

Why are you encrypting something that you need to compress anyway? weirdo

#data hoarding #file compression #file encryption #sys admin

[pray1ngmantis]

anne carson, economy of the unlost (reading simonides of keos with paul celan), 1999

#just started reading this lol but had to save this bc wow. #i have to read paul celan now. #anne carson #on fathers #encrypted files

[just-ornstein]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THE BEAKER CASTLE EVEN - A SimPE Deep Dive

Alright, so after stumbling upon some of the Beta pics on the Russian TheSims.cc site and this analysis post about the Beaker mansion, I became deeply curious if some of this would be reflected in the lot relationships. After all, some characters like Viola, Kelly, on top of several others could be found when digging through the raw and somewhat encrypted code of lots.

By now it's pretty clear that the Beaker home once belonged to this dude and his army of girlfriends (definitely check out the post I mentioned earlier). On top of that Loki (and possibly Circe) seems to have gone through at least two iterations before eventually settling on their final forms.

And on top of that whenever you scan the mansion in a completely new game, you will find fingerprints of primarily deceased Sims everywhere!

Now to get to the Sim relationships on the lot...

712 freaking Sim Relationships, all of which are unknown. Some of which still have stats set such as married, friends, relationship scores, etc. I tried comparing this to other lots in their neighborhood and NONE even come close. Both Olive and the Smiths have around 400. The other lots have below. And the only lots that are even a tad higher in this number are the Capps and the Summerdreams which makes sense when you realise that hood went through at least one other iteration before turning into Veronaville.

Now I wondered if the encrypted code (despite being very hard to read due to being partially encrypted) had any old Sim remnants left in there. And yep, several even. Many of which even have information such as their gender, hair, clothes and age in there. So lemme go over some of them:

1. First one, a guy who's name is partially encrypted so it will never fully be visible. It's not Johnny cause Johnny also has his character file on this lot.

A male teen with brown hair who used to wear the "tmbodyhoodedsweatshirtboardshorts" + the "tmhairhatcap" hairstyle.

2. Second is another teen, this time by the name of Zeeshan. He had black hair, the bucket hat hairstyle and wore the hooded sweatshirt, except with pants this time around (and grey apparently?).

3. The third was an adult male Sim by the name of Kenneth with black hair. Based on his info he was likely meant to be a Gardener Sim.

4. The fourth was one named Kana... Possibly a longer name cause once again the code becomes a bit shambled here. She too was meant to be a Gardener as seen by her outfit and hair data. Her hair would have been brown.

5. Elle, another female Gardener Sim, this one having red hair.

6. Vasyl, an adult male Sim who wore the busdriver outfit. Sadly his hair data seems to be blocked behind the code. For funsies I like to give the name to Bald Beta Loki, since he gives off that vibe. BUT, I think this was an NPC busdriver due to the outfit.

7. Joanne, an adult female Sim with an unknown hair colour in corn rows style and the classy afbodyjacketturtlesweaterdressboots. Sadly her ID is hidden behind the encrypted code, so it's hard to fully make out.

All of these Sims appear to be NPC/Townie Sims. None of them match ANYONE in the Beta pictures. And the current Townies/NPCs seem to have replaced them. Interestingly enough, those that were NPCs are still NPCs and those that were Townies are still Townies. Making me wonder if this is a thing that translates to other Sim IDs too. That Sims that were Townies in earlier iterations are still Townies in their new form. Same for NPCs and yep, Playables. This is merely an assumption I'm making on what I'm finding here, but if anyone can help research this further, that would be greatly appreciated, especially as this could mean the Viola ID may not belong to Viola Monty.

Viola is an odd case cause no outfit, hair or other data can be found in the lot file and she's only ever mentioned once in the context of lines filled with "sleep in pyjamas". But for now I cannot say anything with certainty unless more remnants of these old Sims could be found somewhere. OR, if these files could be read in its entirety which is quite difficult.

It's very hard to get a Sim ID attached to a lot (believe me I tried) and often times seems to rather happen accidentally than intentionally. Moving a Sim out or having a Sim die usually removes the data they once held to that lot. Good example is Loki in my current Strangetown who lived on this lot all of his life and when he died he had no remnants left on this lot.

REGARDLESS! The Beaker lot is ancient and seems to have been ground for a ton of testing, Sims and many more things. No wonder the Beakers got this home with its incredibly shady history. Half of the beta town was partying here!

#the sims 2 #ts2 #the beaker family #loki beaker #circe beaker #the sims 2 beta #beta sims 2 #sims #sims 2 #the sims #the encrypted code IS IN FACT Hex code btw #I figured this out when opening it in Visual Studio #main problem is that some of the hex is blank #meaning it’s unreadable at least in the file itself #SimPE manages to bypass some of it #but not all as we cannot find these Sim IDs in there

[syringesyrup]

THE MAND’ALOR AND THE JEDI MASTER ELOPED. SOMEONE FUCKING DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!

bonus because i hate bo katan and so do they

#my art #luke skywalker #din djarin #dinluke #star wars #the rings have pieces of lukes kyber crystal and the darksaber #they get married in s3 btw i found an encrypted file of the script its happening #bro trust me

[dumpy-dump]

#from prominent splatoon dataminer ashbinary #no side order hasnt leaked thats not how encryption works chill out guys #aside from some file names from the resource table datamine awhile back we have nothing #splatoon 3 #side order #splatoon

[wnterslder]

do you also ever think about lq bucky and/or tws images ?? headlines and reports calling him the winter soldier ?? online people / historians / others digging through thousands of files for any crumb of info about him ??

#sobs its thunderbolts tomorrow !!!!!! #ofc there’d be close to nothing … and i think any files that could be recovered are like #heavily encrypted or redacted - in his hands or someone or some people VERY unwilling to share them #i mean fisk had his james file too

[befuddled-calico-whump]

imagining dropping off the stack of test track evaluation sheets on Vic's desk. Maybe video recording of the sessions. I'd assume he'd want to know his little spy is being productive with his time away :)

-🕯

the interrogator would definitely be sending the completed evals over every few days! Vic's gotta stay updated, y'know?

#they can't easily send over the recordings if the sessions because those files are heavily encrypted #something about not letting the ethics committee find them #(/hj) #🕯️ anon

[compromised-security]

So, what counts as overstaying your visit?

"Either stay quiet or leave."

#[surveillance expert] #[encrypted files] #(ty for leaving an ask 🥺💚) #apex #apex legends #tae joon park

[pensivespacepirate]

memories, or the loss of it // Wolf 359, ep 41: Memoria // Malevolent, Coda // Wolf 359, ep 61: Brave New World // Malevolent, part 21: The Unconquerable // The Mechanisms, Ulysses Dies At Dawn: Riddle of the Sphinx // Wolf 359, ep 61: Brave New World

#mood board #? #quotes? #what do you call these?? #malevolent spoilers #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #ok i had to wipe my laptop drive today because i was locked out of windows - dont update windows 10 when you're locked out #and the drive was automatically encrypted unless i have my BitLocker recovery key. which i didn't set up #see the funny thing is Microsoft automatically enables encryption of your drive with BitLocker but doesn't tell you to set it up #i learnt of its existence after i was locked out. wonderful user guide microsoft i will now hate you forever #now i am grieving for what my laptop once was #a clean slate - it looks like my laptop but it isn't /my/ laptop anymore. it's just a laptop that i own whilst i hold all the memories #it wakes up fresh out of factory reset and feels the creak of the weathered hardware like it's been here before. that would fuck me up #another funny thing is i don't remember what i did and didnt back up so it is very much a let's find out together (oh fuck i lost that file #(my oops all wolf 359 docx ...... too large to save on my google drive.....) #the worst thing was my Minecraft folders. i forgot they aren't linked to your account. my screenshots since 2019. #sigh. still i must march on #wait #the mechansisms #ulysses dies at dawn #1 pic but still #could have put gone angels by mili #but i am very much in hell we live lament by mili for limbus company now #anyway #long post #tag rambling

[dataminessum]

future delvers into files: everything is now fully encrypted and likely not able to be decrypted by most players of the game.

#tfw a triple a corporation does less encryption on their files than cheritz lmao #papa cheritz y u do dis but also i do not blame you #modpost #we flew too close to the sun and this is the punishment!!! oopsy woopsy i did a fucky wucky

[bingobongobonko]

clown nose honks playing in the distance while `where is my mind` by the pixies plays

#sketches #vignettes maybe #can't get this outta my head. hey yves man uhmmmmmmmmm #yk. put an encryption on your shit mayble #idk just a suggestion #BUT yea for context. yves gets detained for sneaking into the archives. while he succeeds in ridding some of his. questionable. files #he still gets caught. and turns out somebody else was there before him #:o) #yves #bingo art #lancer rpg

[pray1ngmantis]

telemachus’ fantasy, louise glück | half a million miles from home, diane cluck

#just heard this song and had to make this post to document …. i thought of that poem at once #bc well it is a tumblr famous one … particularly those lines #although the whole poem is so 😵‍💫 #shoebox #encrypted files

[pinkyjulien]

Been bonking my head over Animations extract all day and FOR WHAT NOTHING

#modding shenanigans #gjfhhjgf first I wanted to see if I could export the romance scene from mass effect andromeda #but apparently the files are well encrypted #then I thought ayo Witcher 3 must be more approachable right #HOE YOU THOUGHT. gfhhgf it might be a small brain kinda day tho #OWELL

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I’m like if a girl had OneHalf installed on her Master Boot Record..

#blue chatter #Functionally very similar but Something’s going on in there that u can’t see #OneHalf is a computer virus which infected .exe files of MS-DOS computers #It wrote a decryption key to the master boot record #as well as instructions to encrypt the last two unencrypted sectors of the hard disk upon startup #it was found in the wild in 1994 #removing OneHalf without a specialized tool completely bricked your computer depending on how long you had it #bc if you attempted to install a clean copy of the MBR without carefully decrypting your encrypted data first #there’d be no way to unencrypt your files and you’d be screwed

[viriborne]

Oh yeah I was talking with my friend who Actually knows about programming and is in her like. 2nd year as a comp sci major. And she saw how fucking encrypted the stupid MUSIC FILES were and was like “what the fuck why are they encrypting them and why like that are they on crack??” LMAO

#she’s absolutely baffled that a dating sim game would go through such lengths to encrypt their files #especially for shit as inconsequential as…music you can literally find in-game

[alternis]

Superman, trying not to show how much it bothers him to look directly at Batman's new Thermal Void outfit: "This level of drama is unnecessary." Batman: "Men who live in Ice Fortresses don't get to throw shade."

huh i didnt consider this but yeah, a suit that literally absorbs visible light and converts it into heat is probably like. a little intimidating for the guy who describes himself as a 'solar battery'!

#batman returns home to the batcave sits at the batcomputer and opens an ultra-encrypted file. it is untitled. #he adds a single check mark to the list. nods to himself. saves and closes the file #today he has once again gotten a good grade at unnerving superman. something normal to want and possible to achieve.