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This is satire, right?

"A plaintext file requires a special tool, called a text editor, to change its content."

"I recommend notepad.exe or pico. Linux hackers may use WINE to run notepad.exe." [rofl]

EDIT: I think it's just the author's sense of humor, not actually satire.



Correct. Tongue was planted firmly in cheek of the authour when he wrote this. It's great.


lol, not just wrote it but did it. The screenshot at the end is Notepad in Linux.


I think this would be considered satire:

Jar files are complex. So complex, a major conference carried a talk on how to reverse engineer them in early 2012.


That triggered my bullshit detector. This also made me laugh " unzip tool uses a sophisticated algorithm based on LZ77 and Huffman coding."




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