ThibI thought my colleague was an alien who decoded base64 strings on the fly, but he wasn't.
It turns out there's a neat little trick to know that you're looking at a base64 encoded JSON object.
https://ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json/
#sysadmin #selfHosting #base64
Fabian N. T.@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr I knew this one. Hard not to notice when you deal with this stuff often.
What I sometimes wonder: Are there people that can decode QR codes "on the fly"? But the decoding algo is pretty sophisticated, so I guess no, but on the other hand, among 8 billion people …
Thomas@fabian@floss.social @thibaultamartin@mamot.fr Not that complicated!
https://qr.blinry.org