Tootfinder

Cryptographic Challenges: Masking Sensitive Data in Cyber Crimes through ASCII Art
Andres Alejandre, Kassandra Delfin, Victor Castano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00059 https://…

Cryptographic Challenges: Masking Sensitive Data in Cyber Crimes through ASCII Art
The use of ASCII art as a novel approach to masking sensitive information in cybercrime, focusing on its potential role in protecting personal data during the delivery process and beyond, is presented. By examining the unique properties of ASCII art and its historical context, this study discusses the advantages and limitations of employing this technique in various cybercrime scenarios. Additionally, providing recommendations for enhancing data security practices and fostering a culture of pri…

Temporary freebie: A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village! https://

If you're on Steam and wanna grab a game I really dig a lot, Ampersat is currently free (grab it now!) - I've played the demo - it's a twin stick shooty, slashy, RPG-ish roguelite type game with Gauntlet, Smash TV and Angband influences. Psyched I have the full game now. 🔥
https://store.steampow…

Save 100% on Ampersat on Steam
A shooty, slashy, RPG-y game mixing retro and modern sensibilities. A blend of influences from Gauntlet & Smash TV to Zelda & Angband, Ampersat is a handcrafted adventure but with appeal to Roguelite fans. Battle ASCII creatures in colorful areas & free letters to return language to the village!

what do you think is the least used ASCII C0/C1 [see below] control code?
edit: i misremembered the definition of C1 control codes. this is easy mode, nobody uses that entire block. let's just limit it to C0

from my link log —
AsciiDots: an esoteric programming language based on ascii art.
https://ajanse.me/asciidots/
saved 2025-08-19 https://

Dear people from Denmark and possibly Norway and other places that use Ÿ, æ, etc.: If you had to write a Danish name containing Ÿ and æ in ascii - would you use o/ae, oe/ae, or o/a? or something entirely different?

I just saw this ASCII text account called @hypernode.bsky.social & it reminded me of my UCLA mainframe days...
Anyone remember a real-time multi-player game on the #mainframe called #HUNT? You'd telnet in & control an 'X' on a 16x16 grid, firing bombs, slime & other wea…

@… There should be a C-with-21st-century-assumptions standard. The two you named, plus signed being 2's complement, char being ASCII (begone, trigraphs!), and maybe numeric types being powers of 2 long.

/`\ /`\
(/\ \-/ /\) H A P P Y E A S T E R
)6 6(
>{= Y =}< joan stark
/'-^-'\ <spunk1111@juno.com>
(_)""-(_).
/* ((* *'.
| *)) * *\ ASCII ART GALLERY:
| * ((* * / <http://www.

The story of Rogue #rogue #roguelikes

It has been 0 days since the last unicode fuckup ....
Man, 2025 und es gibt grosse Firmen die noch immer kein sauberes konsistentes Encoding von nicht-ASCII Zeichen hinbekommen.

Ascii Disco – Strassen
🦇🖤🤘🏼🕴🏻🕺🏻🕴🏻🕺🏻
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=j9cQYWMA3qQ

While NUL and NULL both refer to numeric values 0, NUL is used in the context of ASCII (a single byte), whereas NULL is used in the context of pointers.
My headcanon is now that NULL is short for "NUL, Long".

Binsparse: A Specification for Cross-Platform Storage of Sparse Matrices and Tensors
Benjamin Brock, Willow Ahrens, Hameer Abbasi, Timothy A. Davis, Juni Kim, James Kitchen, Spencer Patty, Isaac Virshup, Erik Welch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19175

Binsparse: A Specification for Cross-Platform Storage of Sparse Matrices and Tensors
Sparse matrices and tensors are ubiquitous throughout multiple subfields of computing. The widespread usage of sparse data has inspired many in-memory and on-disk storage formats, but the only widely adopted storage specifications are the Matrix Market and FROSTT file formats, which both use ASCII text. Due to the inefficiency of text storage, these files typically have larger file sizes and longer parsing times than binary storage formats, which directly store an in-memory representation to di…

Wißt ihr noch, damals, als alle plötzlich dieses „Internet“ entdeckten und jeder dort sein wollte?
Viele¹ landeten zunächst im Walled Garden von AOL oder Compuserve und wagten dann zaghafte Ausflüge in dieses wilde Netz, wo die Hacker² und die richtigen³ Pornos⁴ waren.
„Neuland“ aka 25 Jahre „ich bin drin!“
__
¹vor allem in den USA
²diese langhaarigen Typen (allerlei Geschlechts) von den eher technischen Bereichen der Unis
³konkret ASCII-Art mit nackten Fraue…

“The String… will be much faster”
my brain is breaking https://mastodon.social/@Catfish_Man/114655168110161214

I just love :vim: #vim for its macros 🤩
(vim macro in the #AltText)
#TexLaTeX

idk if you know but you can:-
curl wttr.in/moon
to get todays moon phase and how much time before and after new and full moon.
oh yeah, and some pretty ascii art :luna_moth:
#command #curl

I just copped on that the ring placement was all wrong in my ASCII goatse archive. My apologies. I have corrected all of the files now. https://github.com/theodric/asciigoatse/

Cookie-Warnung im Retro-Style… wofür die Leute da Zeit finden… 😂

My whole interface in @… is in a language with non-ascii symbols.
I don’t even know how to fix it. Help!

"On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
(By Tarl Neustaedter)