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  • And more de-obf:

    #include <stdio.h>
    
    const char addarr1[]
    	= { 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
    		0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
    		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
    		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x0,
    		0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40,
    		0x0,  0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40,
    		0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x0,  0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,
    		0x40, 0x40, 0x40, 0x0,  0x0,  0x0,  0x0,  0x0 };
    
    const char addarr2[]
    	= { 0x9,  0x26, 0x20, 0x39, 0x2f, 0x35, 0x32, 0x20, 0x2c, 0x2f, 0x36, 0x25,
    		0x20, 0x2c, 0x25, 0x34, 0x34, 0x25, 0x32, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x2e, 0x27,
    		0x34, 0x20, 0x27, 0x29, 0x36, 0x25, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x29, 0x2e, 0x20, 0x34,
    		0x28, 0x25, 0x20, 0x26, 0x2f, 0x32, 0x2d, 0x20, 0x2f, 0x26, 0x20, 0x28,
    		0x29, 0x27, 0x28, 0x2c, 0x39, 0x20, 0x2f, 0x22, 0x26, 0x35, 0x33, 0x23,
    		0x21, 0x34, 0x25, 0x24, 0x20, 0x3,  0x2c, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x20, 0x29,
    		0x34, 0x20, 0x32, 0x25, 0x21, 0x2c, 0x2c, 0x39, 0x20, 0x21, 0x20, 0x2c,
    		0x2f, 0x36, 0x25, 0x20, 0x2c, 0x25, 0x34, 0x34, 0x25, 0x32, 0x3f, 0xa,
    		0x9,  0x20, 0x24, 0x2f, 0x2e, 0x27, 0x34, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x2e, 0x2f, 0x37,
    		0x2c, 0x20, 0x22, 0x35, 0x34, 0x20, 0x37, 0x28, 0x21, 0x34, 0x20, 0x9,
    		0x20, 0x24, 0x2f, 0x20, 0x2b, 0x2e, 0x2f, 0x37, 0x20, 0x29, 0x33, 0x20,
    		0x34, 0x28, 0x21, 0x34, 0x20, 0x9,  0x20, 0x2c, 0x2f, 0x36, 0x25, 0x20,
    		0x39, 0x2f, 0x35, 0x21, 0x20, 0x3c, 0x33, 0xa };
    
    int main ()
    {
    	for (int i = 0; i < 152; i++)
    	{
    		char adder1 = addarr1[i];
    
    		char adder2 = addarr2[i];
    
    		char to_print = (char)adder1 + adder2;
    
    		printf ("%c", to_print);
    	}
    	return 63;
    }
    
    

    I guess I should have kept the recursion and straightened it out in the next step, but now that it’s done…

    The next step will just have an array of the characters that would be printed, so I’ll leave it here.

  • Here’s it with some amount of de-obfuscation:

    #include <stdio.h>
    short i = 0;
    const long b[]
    	= { 0xd60,  0x3200,  0x1ca8, 0x74e2, 0x9c,   0x66e8, 0x5100,  0x14500,
    		0x63b8, 0x49c6,  0xe0,   0x6200, 0x75e8, 0x57a6, 0xe8,    0x4300,
    		0x4500, 0x63b8,  0x49ea, 0xc6,   0x548e, 0x22,   0x75e8,  0x57a6,
    		0xc6,   0x2fae,  0x7486, 0x8a,   0xd72,  0x4f9c, 0x63c6,  0x4ea2,
    		0x809c, 0x66e8,  0x5100, 0x5c00, 0x71a2, 0x51b8, 0x4e9e,  0xc6,
    		0x6200, 0x70c4,  0x8022, 0x7d00, 0x439c, 0x63b8, 0x6ae0,  0x54c0,
    		0x47e8, 0xe2,    0x5192, 0x6fc4, 0x4900, 0x60e8, 0x100ca, 0x14fe8,
    		0x6000, 0x44e92, 0x6300, 0x57c4, 0xae,   0x4ecc, 0x62de,  0xc6,
    		0xafae, 0x70c4,  0x9e,   0x4ec6, 0x639c, 0x5100, 0x4ecc,  0x74a2,
    		0x9e,   0x54e8,  0x7100, 0x608a };
    const long n = 9147811012615426336;
    long
    main ()
    {
    	if (i < 152)
    	{
    		char shifter;
    		if (i % 2 == 0)
    		{
    			shifter = 8;
    		}
    		else
    		{
    			shifter = 1;
    		}
    		char adder1 = (b[i >> 1] >> shifter) & 64;
    
    		char adder2 = (n >> (b[i >> 1] >> shifter)) & 63;
    
    		char to_print = (char)adder1 + adder2;
    		i++;
    		main ();
    		printf ("%c", to_print);
    	}
    	return 63;
    }
    

    Needless to say, the return value doesn’t matter any more. So you can change it to 0 or 69 depending upon your preferences.

  • I don’t know much about “mostly”, but check out the channels on the server kde.org, where they do discussions regarding visual design, development, documentation and all that good stuff.
    Sometimes, if you mostly find what you don’t like, you might be looking at it from the wrong angle. For instance, I found a few, very desirable communities on Reddit, so much that I am finding it hard to leave. And that is the few that I searched for. Only realised the toxic communities, when I read others’ rants on it [1].


    1. and from the recommendations. Definitely don’t checkout the Reddit recommended communities or you will get said toxic stuff. ↩︎