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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by charcircuit on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:42AM (#50463822)
This is more about a bad OCR than about paint splatters. They also tried multiple OCR settings until one worked. If you used more accurate OCR this would be very different.
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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by michaelt on Thursday November 12, 2026 @03:16AM (#50464422)
More accurate OCR would recognise the images have no text

  $ touch temp.pl; perl temp.pl; echo "exit code $?"
  exit code 0
which is a valid perl program. And that one image with the watermark "stitch & shutter" ?

  $ echo "stitch & shutter" > temp.pl; perl temp.pl; echo "exit code $?"
  exit code 0
Also valid perl.
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