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The Treachery of Image Files (2020)


ve recently come into possession of a series of exquisite miniatures which I pray are worthy of your esteemed attention. While my employers are familiar with your unusual tastes, they also appreciate your desire for privacy- this showing was arranged with the utmost discretion, I assure you.

Vim 8.0.1365, FFmpeg 4.1.4For this piece, the artist once again created a PPM image, this time using the Vi, Improved text editor, giving the source code a subtly crisper affect: Despite frequent threats by the developers to remove them, the GIMP application had (at time of composition) some obscure and infrequently-used features permitting the creation and manipulation of image files. The mass-storage device was prepared in advance by formatting it with the 32-bit File Allocation Table filesystem and labeling it Charon, in recognition of its role in transporting the soul of the artwork between worlds.

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