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  • Foxfire@pawb.social
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    3 days ago

    Okay, challenge accepted. As characters such as spaces and general punctuation are allowed, I can encode letters using binary and you can decipher them. Codex: E is 1, . is zero. A space signifies one number has terminated, and another has begun. A hyphen will denote the ending of a word.

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    E…EE E… .E… .E…E .EEE. EE… - .EEEE …EE. - …E. .EE… …E …EE .E.EE - E…E E.E.E …E E…E. E.E… EE.E. - .E.E. E.E.E …E… …EEE …E.E - .EE.E EE…E - E.EE. .EEEE E.EEE

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      2 days ago

      I wanted to be smart and just use Bash pipes to get the result (basically: sed | xattr -n1 command_that_turns_binary_into_decimal | command_that_turns_decimal_into_char ) but I couldn’t get the xattr part to work :(

      This would’ve been perfect for piping dammit! I had to do it by hand just now so I wasted in total like 30 minutes on this.

      I rate my experience a 1/10

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        2 days ago

        Well, I appreciate the effort anyway. I did it by hand too, here’s my alphabet (lovingly named Elphabet) where I pasted letters one at a time lol:

        Elphabet
        - A: ....E 
        - B: ...E. 
        - C: ...EE 
        - D: ..E.. 
        - E: ..E.E 
        - F: ..EE. 
        - G: ..EEE 
        - H: .E... 
        - I: .E..E 
        - J: .E.E. 
        - K: .E.EE 
        - L: .EE.. 
        - M: .EE.E 
        - N: .EEE. 
        - O: .EEEE 
        - P: E.... 
        - Q: E...E 
        - R: E..E. 
        - S: E..EE 
        - T: E.E.. 
        - U: E.E.E 
        - V: E.EE. 
        - W: E.EEE 
        - X: EE... 
        - Y: EE..E 
        - Z: EE.E.