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Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by bux93 on Monday June 24, 2024 @05:50AM (#40774106)
Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) files. Was useful for getting attachments through e-mail in the face of all kinds of filters.
Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by eesmith on Monday June 24, 2024 @07:18AM (#40774657)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312317 - "A C89 compiler that produces executables that are also valid ASCII text files"

http://tom7.org/abc/

The paper for SIGBOVIK 2017 is both a text file and an executable.

Re:Cosmopolitan v3.5.0 by metadat on Monday June 24, 2024 @12:26PM (#40777988)
Really near.

Also discussed 11 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36821985 (15 comments)