Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by DrewADesign on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:57AM (#48829911)

> I guess Uniqlo is run through Windows though: one thing that struck me was the font, which I’m almost certain is Consolas,

Surely this would use whatever font the virtual terminal profile was set to? I don’t know of any method to choose a virtual terminal font from bash and don’t see any code that addresses it?

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by nisiddharth on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:59AM (#48829923)

They're referring to the font on the T-shirt.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by tym0 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @06:17AM (#48830036)

Thank you for spelling it out for me because I thought I was looking at a completely hallucinated AI article...

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by speerer on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:47AM (#48831229)

Author here. All hallucinations are my own. Now you point it out, I see why the jump in context from the terminal back to the tshirt font would give the wrong impression.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by tym0 on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @09:09AM (#48831488)

Honestly it was quite a whiplash to go from what looked like a good article to something that seemed completely made up. But I would chalk that up more to my reading comprehension than your writing.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by DrewADesign on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:29PM (#48834001)

I didn’t read it as generated text, but the context definitely threw me.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by DrewADesign on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @12:28PM (#48833990)

Ah, I see. I’m sure the clothing designer that actually made the design couldn’t care less about technical consistency and was just looking for something ‘tech’ looking that also read well in that design context in that medium.

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Re:Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt by efreak on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @08:03PM (#48839127)

I don't recall the exact command I used, but I had my console font set to Comic Sans for a while (though it wasn't quite recognizable due to low resolution and aliasing). There's tools out there to convert type 1 and other fonts to console font format (I couldn't quite manage to get the opentype converter tool working, but truetype worked fine at large sizes)

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