I started looking through corrupt Winamp skins and it lead me down some very strange rabbit holes

I take issue with “everything”, as most things are not. But it is a common trick when a developer wants to make a “new” file format that encapsulates a bunch of different files.

Everything, including you, is a .zip file.

😧🤐

@SteevyT@beehaw.org
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It’s just .zip files all the way down

Em Adespoton
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I just came here to say stuffit.

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Transcription is just unzipping your coding

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