TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agraw…) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGn…
Prolific sunset at St Mary Lake, Glacier National Park
The story is now on BBC on this photo breaking Android phones: www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978884?SThisFB&fbclid=I... ***** This photograph is in the news lately with android phones crashing when setting this as a wallpaper.Flickr
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in reply to mcc • • •This is making me think about making an "irl-basilisks" Github repo containing the Excessively Loud Sunset, Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" and a copy of the EICAR test file. Probably a bad idea because sometime in 2026 I'd wind up including "entirely innocuous image that incorrectly trips neural network CSAM scanners" and then I'd get banned from Github mastodon.social/@miah@hachyder…
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in reply to mcc • • •The more I think about this the funnier I am finding it because I'm realizing it would be entirely reasonable to include a text file containing only the word "Memphis"*
* During Mar. 14 2021, Twitter instabanned anyone who posted the word "Memphis" (thread: twitter.com/mcclure111/status/…)
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in reply to mcc • • •This is like that Janet Jackson song with the same resonate frequency of some hard drives right? =)
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This Janet Jackson BASSLINE breaks laptops
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