• Luci@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    That’s pretty impressive. Do you have to practise or does it just come to you?

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      16 days ago

      I just started recognizing patterns. I forget which equipment we were using, but there was almost always some data screeching over a certain connection in the lab. My colleague picked up on it as well.

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        16 days ago

        So by listen, how did it work? Like picking out ascii from the bits like it’s Morse code??

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          16 days ago

          Similar to skimming ARM machine code in hexadecimal - patterns stand out and you can see the overall structure, though not necessarily single bytes. Enough to recognize the nature of the data if it’s one that was heard before.