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FarmerPotato 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachmen...

If only Base64 had used a checksum.

zahlman 7 months ago [–]

"had used"? Base64 is still in very common use, specifically embedded within JSON and in "data URLs" on the Web.

bahmboo 7 months ago | [–]

"had" in the sense of when it was designed and introduced as a standard

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