so far no-one is using my fa rss thing but someone is trying to scan for vulnerabilities in it. i love putting things on line

keep trying to request /.env, maybe i'll serve you a gzip bomb or something

oops i'm reading the gzip and deflate specs for reasons

ohh my goodness the wikipedia pages on CRC are giving me a headache

computer nerds who are also math nerds are my nemesis. nemeses. nemesises?

anyway this is as far as i got before i got overwhelmed by math

i know i could just make a big ass file full of zeros or whatever and run it through gzip but i feel like i could probably get a better compression ratio by hand-crafting some bullshit. 10 MB compressed .env file is kinda sus

i bet it was easier to make zip bombs when having 2 gigs of ram was a luxury

fuck i give up i was trying to handwrite it in a hex editor but it turns out it's hard to do shit in a hex editor when things arent aligned to bytes

either way from what i could gather from the deflate rfc the best i could do was ~1:140 compression, not the 1:1000 that gzip is giving me. so idk how the fuck it's doing that

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