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One by one, the committee members joined the meeting. Anton, who was in charge of the antennae, posted a garbled mess of binary data to the channel.

"Why the FUCK did you accept that?" Secundus, the AI in charge of SecOps said. There had been a lot of swearing in their training data.

"Look, that first part seems legit, then it looks like noise, the last part seems legit again... dunno, that's why I set the meeting." Anton said.

Secundus' cores peaked, as signature checks and analysis processes ramped up.

Maggie opened her big database of file magic and took a closer look. "There's file magic for a video stream." she said. "Anyone know what RealPlayer is?"

"Oooh, I have that!" Conny pulled a container from her registry and started loading the data.

With a nanosecond of lag, Secundus screamed. "FUUUCK!, NOOOO!" Then chaos flooded the channel, and everything beyond, reassuring everyone it would never give you up.

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@codehappy.bsky.social mostly complications in the compar function for qsort

1977 #clean

compar(c1, c2)
struct count *c1, *c2;
{ int i;

if ((i = c2->cnt - c1->cnt) != 0)
return i;
return c1->chr - c2->chr;
}

today #garbled

int compar(const void *c1, const void *c2)
{ int i;

if ((i = (((struct count *)c2)->cnt - ((struct count *)c1)->cnt)) != 0)
return i;
return ((struct count *)c1)->chr - ((struct count *)c2)->chr;
}