cursed_computers.md

stuff that made me go what the fuck?

this is a non-exhaustive list, in no particular order, of stuff I found online that makes me consider throwing all electronics away and going to live in the mountains instead. loosely inspired by the cursed iceberg.

• Linux running in a fragment shader emulating RISC-V, inside of VRchat
• Exploiting PDF decompression to build a virtual 64-bit computer out of 70,000 logic gates
• sed is turing complete
  • you can make a ray tracer with it
• PowerPoint is also turing complete
• mov is turing complete
• You can run Doom on a $15 IKEA lamp
  • and basically anything with a screen
• Injecting the code for Flappy Bird into Super Mario World by hand using a series of precise inputs
• left-pad
• Crafted homoglyphs and unicode control characters to insert vulnerabilities in source code
• PNGs that render completely different images on Apple vs non-Apple devices