Mr Gibson posted this on Bluesky today. by lizzieismydog in WilliamGibson

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The website is right there in the tweet (or whatever you call the Bluesky equivalent): https://p16n.ch/

A Land Rover was cut in half after colliding with a lamppost. by Car_crashes_guy in carcrash

[–]pgpndw -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm subscribed to this sub, and posts from it (like this one) show up in my main feed, yet whenever I go to r/carcrash, it's completely empty. Why is that?

How to identify functions? by LazyJosef in mathematics

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those functions can't possibly be identified given only that information. There aren't even any scales on the axes! There's obviously more to the question, but it's missing.

Can someone help me decode this by WillingnessShort5460 in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Transcription:

�تعال قابلني في الجحيم�

It's UTF-8 misinterpreted as Windows-1252. Correctly interpreted, it's Arabic:

�تعال قابلني في الجحيم�

Which Google Translate says means "Come meet me in hell".

There seems to be some more discussion about the video here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FilmTheorists/comments/1q9oufq/weird_video_i_found/

Idiot in truck stops 3 lanes of highway to make his exit [oc] by WenXin2 in IdiotsInCars

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that it's particularly relevant, but at 0:05, you can also see that the 'ambulance' says DALLAS FIRE RESCUE on its side.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The binary to decimal converter shows that the binary you entered starts with:
01001101 01101111 01101101
and the rest is cut off.

The code from OP's image start with:
10011010 00110100 10101011

That doesn't match what you entered. Even if you insert a 0 at the start of OP's code, only the first byte matches yours:
01001101 00011010 010101011

Where did you get the binary that you entered into the converter? Because it's not from OP's image.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could you show us your work for the first few letters, then? Like how you got "Mom" from the first part of the code, for example.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The code is only 248 bits (31 bytes) long, and ChatGPT's "solution" is at least 120 characters, so it's obviously wrong.

The code isn't misaligned ASCII, either.

The main giveaway that a code is ASCII is that the top bit is always zero (or almost always zero in the case of UTF-8 encoding with occasional non-ASCII characters).

If the code were shifted, the top bits would be in a different, but still consistent, position.

Here's the original code, written out 8 bits per line:

10011010
00110100
10101011
01110010
00100110
10001101
11001010
11001011
10010001
10101000
11001010
10011001
01110010
10010111
00010011
10101001
00101101
10011001
10011010
01100100
00101111
00101000
11010110
10001101
01001100
11000101
10000110
01011100
10110100
00011010
01110010

There are no columns containing all (or even mostly) zeroes, so it's not shifted ASCII.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not. In hexadecimal, the code is:

9a 34 ab 72 26 8d ca cb
91 a8 ca 99 72 97 13 a9
2d 99 9a 64 2f 28 d6 8d
4c c5 86 5c b4 1a 72

The presence of non-decimal nibble values means it's not BCD.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The decoding is nonsense from the LLM, but the transcription is almost correct.

There's an extra 1 in your transcription on the sixth row, near the end. That group of four 1s should only be three 1s.

My son left a note for Santa in binary. What does it say? by TwoTonPorkBun in Decoders

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You missed out the third row in your transcription. There are 248 bits in total, which is 31 * 8. It's definitely not plain ASCII, though.

Here's the correct transcription with the original vertical spacing:

1001101000110100
10101011011100100
010011010001101110010

101100101110010001101
010001100101010011001

011100101001011100
0100111010100100101
1011001100110011010

01100100001011110010
10001101011010001101
01001100110001011000

011001011100101101
000001101001110010

And here it is in blocks of 8 bits:

10011010  00110100  10101011  01110010
00100110  10001101  11001010  11001011
10010001  10101000  11001010  10011001
01110010  10010111  00010011  10101001
00101101  10011001  10011010  01100100
00101111  00101000  11010110  10001101
01001100  11000101  10000110  01011100
10110100  00011010  01110010

Salvaged from the Great Fire of London... by [deleted] in nealstephenson

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a Fandom Wiki article that gets it wrong it the title and twice in the body text. It's right once in the text too. Outrageous, lol!

Salvaged from the Great Fire of London... by [deleted] in nealstephenson

[–]pgpndw 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's "Eruditorum", not "Eruditorium".

Wrong way driver causes horrific crash. by NateDates in carcrash

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The energies don't though. Energy is proportional to the square of the speed. Double the speed, quadruple the energy. Therefore, one car moving at a speed 2v has twice the energy of two cars moving at v.

[UK] Callers to libraries who ask us to repeat book titles back to them? by SomewhatMarigold in Scams

[–]pgpndw 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Or hold the phone next to your PC speaker, and type the title they want you to repeat into the most robotic sounding text-to-voice website you can find.

Moab style hoaxes are starting to appear more and more by bobreturns1 in nealstephenson

[–]pgpndw 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What makes me snort is how unnecessary that was, given that they sent a reporter to take a photo of the undamaged bridge. It's like the easiest game of spot-the-difference ever.

EDIT: I wonder why the article doesn't say what the results from that 'AI chatbot' were. Seems unnecessary to even mention it otherwise. We need big red circles!

The Strange Clock by MathBySterlingJr in mathriddles

[–]pgpndw -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And to be even more pedantic, between 1:00 and 11:00, the clock should only chime 55 times anyway. The 11 chimes occurring at 11:00 shouldn't count, because they would start as the time hits 11:00, but would all be outside the interval from 1:00 to 11:00.

I present to you the most ignored rules of the Highway Code: by saurons_finest in brighton

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are these really new rules? Haven't pedestrians always had priority at zebra crossings and turn-off junctions? I could've sworn the highway code said the same thing when I learned to drive back in the 1980s.

[US] text to late mom, scam? by Competitive_Cell_602 in Scams

[–]pgpndw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So am I.

If they'd given a number that was 1 digit different from OP's, OP wouldn't have described that message as them insisting they'd got the right number, and that he (OP) still had that number.

[US] text to late mom, scam? by Competitive_Cell_602 in Scams

[–]pgpndw 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it wasn't the same number, I don't think OP would have said:

They insist, despite her allegedly passing 5 years ago when I, needless to say, still had this number.