• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    It’s all fun and games until the user has bit rot or some stupid thing is offset by one or a row doesn’t exist somewhere and you have to correct for it

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      11 months ago

      A corrupted bitmap should only look ugly. There is no decoding or compression - only translation, and sometimes not even that.

      A bitmap is the platonic ideal of a buffer overrun being comically obvious and trivially preventable.