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The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
Microsoft Windows Programming Debugging Databases
6 days ago 60.5K views 0 shares
The World If Excel Encoded CSV Using UTF-8
BEHOLD! The utopian future we were ROBBED of because Excel insists on using Latin-1 encoding for CSV files instead of UTF-8! 🙄 We could've had flying cars, space elevators, and gleaming futuristic cities, but NOOO! Instead, we're stuck debugging weird characters like "é" and "’" every time someone dares to use a non-English character in their spreadsheet! The AUDACITY of Microsoft to keep us in the dark ages with their encoding choices! This is why we can't have nice things, people!

Base64 Is Not Encryption
Security Programming Debugging
1 month ago 101.8K views 0 shares
Base64 Is Not Encryption
Every junior dev thinks they've invented encryption when they discover Base64. The number of times I've had to explain that encoding ≠ encryption is probably why my hair's thinning. Base64 is just fancy dress for your data – anyone can undress it with zero effort. It's like hiding your house key under the doormat and calling it a security system. And the response is always the same: "Fine! I'll just use Base128 then!" Sure buddy, throw more digits at the problem. That'll fix it. Just like how writing your password in bigger letters makes it more secure.

Strong Encryption
Security Networking Programming
1 month ago 110.7K views 0 shares
Strong Encryption
Oh no! Someone thinks base64 encoding is "strong encryption"! 🤦‍♂️ This is like putting your house key under the doormat and calling it a high-security vault! Base64 is just an encoding scheme that converts binary data to text - it's not encryption at all! It can be decoded by literally anyone with an internet connection in 2 seconds flat. The cherry on top is the user named "acidburnNSA" claiming it's "mathematically unhackable" - which is pure comedy gold! And then someone suggests base16 is equally secure? I can't even! This is the security equivalent of using "password123" and feeling smug about it!

Hebrew Code
Python Programming Debugging
1 month ago 106.9K views 0 shares
Hebrew Code
The cosmic joke here is that someone's code got completely mangled—likely by a text encoding issue or font rendering problem—turning their Python code into what looks like hieroglyphics. Instead of seeing this as a technical glitch, they've hilariously interpreted it as "Hebrew code" and are genuinely asking how to translate it back! The punchline hits when they ask "THEY HAVE ENGLISH CODING???" as if programming in English is the exotic alternative. It's the coding equivalent of driving on the wrong side of the road and wondering why everyone else is doing it backward. Fun fact: This is actually a perfect example of mojibake—when text is decoded using the wrong character encoding. Somewhere between saving and viewing this code, UTF-8 got interpreted as something else entirely, creating this beautiful disaster.

Chr(78)
Python Programming Linux
2 months ago 90.5K views 1 shares
Chr(78)
Ah, the classic Python ASCII trap. chr(78) returns the character 'N' in ASCII, but what you're actually seeing is a cat girl anime character. Clearly someone's terminal has... unusual rendering capabilities. When your Python interpreter starts outputting waifus instead of letters, you know it's time to either fix your encoding or embrace your new anime-powered development environment.