As someone who’s been dealing with a lot of low mood lately, it really brightens my day to hear someone express gratitude for my anonymous, unauthorized trail maintenance.
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Silky gomboy saw? Nice
You dropped this 👑
Don’t use blurry text if you want to censor it, as it can be unblurred. Just use a solid color box.
I would be very impressed if that blurring could be effectively uncensored.
There’s quite a lot of information in those pixels. You can make out gaps between words, risers and descenders, two smileys in the first paragraph which I reckon are probably a smiley and a thumbs up which will further narrow down the possibilities for the words in their vicinity. Constrain that further with English language rules and I reckon that’d get you most of the way there.
Not to mention that you know that exact typeface and pixel perfect location where letters can be, so it should be relatively easy to go through each possible subsequent character and match the pixelated value.
Well, there’s Unredacted which just tries to brute force it - see this blog post. Then there’s DepixHMM which uses Hidden Markov Models and links to the research paper it’s based on.
The example Unredacted used is 4 pixels high. The one in the screenshot seems to only be 2 pixels high.
True, this would make it harder. But… On the other hand, its not a random password but text. If you know (or guess) the language you may be able to employ other tricks like “how common is each letter?”, “which combination of letters is more common in this language?” And so on. Maybe the hidden markov model mentioned in the research paper does that (which would be one thing that Markov Models do IIRC).
Right, technically even one pixel per letter could be solvable. Different letters would mostly result in a slightly different hue. And if multiple letters have the same, it could be guessed via the neighbours and statistical frequency of each letter.
We also have the context and could specifically look for words like trees, path, thank, saw first.
Isn’t this software available? People keep telling me that it could be decensored, but no one has tried it.
I wonder if an entire line gets blurred with one pattern-- therefore if you know what the emojis are supposed to look like it can help figure out the blurring pattern
Check this out: https://youtu.be/acKYYwcxpGk
This only applies to videos as far as I know.
edit: apparently not
We were already assured of your ignorance, you didn’t have to admit it further.
What do you actually get out of being rude to strangers online for no reason? We’ve never even interacted before. You just show up in a space that’s meant to be about good vibes, and your first instinct is to insult someone - not just for being wrong, but even more for admitting it.
Meant to be good vibes.
Hard disagree.
Nope, it’s a general rule. See for example https://bishopfox.com/blog/unredacter-tool-never-pixelation
Or pixelated blurs
Troll option. Replace the text with lorem Ipsum, then pixelate that.
That’s awesome! I also have a trail with some fallen branches and sticks - been thinking of taking into my own hands ⚒️
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
What saw do you use? These things look great.
It’s Silky Big Boy
I love my silkys. I am a carpenter and have the 6" in my pouch for everything from flooring to little trimmy jobs. And a big 12" in my truck for clearing brush like this when out on Crown land roads.
What Silky saw(s) do you recommend? I plan to both hike and do woodworking in the near future.
You can’t go wrong with any of them, and you can buy different blades. I just checked their lineup online and “gomboy” are about where your bush saws start. I’d grab a 190mm straight blade and buy a second blade. When you are out in the woods throw a pruning blade on it, when you are in the shop try and remember to swap it for a fine tooth blade.
The bigger you go, the less you’ll find it useful for woodworking, and the smaller, the less efficient for brush clearing. Curved blades are awesome for brush clearing and straight are my preference for woodworking.
Just head to the store and hold them in your hand, you’ll find one you like and you won’t regret the purchase.
Oh and personal grudge: don’t buy the “hunting” one, with the deer on it and the antler or bone coloured handle.
- It’s the same picture but $10-20 more
- You want a bright colour so if you set it down or drop it you have a hope in hell of finding it again.
Happy trails and happy woodworking.
Great breakdown, thank you!
I should have bought one of those. I did some anonymous trail maintenance myself and used a hand chainsaw (chainsaw blade with a handle at each end). It was a nightmare because the chain kept getting stuck.
Good on you for doing that, I’m one of the people who would really appreciate that!
Are you Bóbr? 🦫
Torille
you deserve it
Nice work, OP!
Good shit! I also started carrying branch saw and an axe in my backpack sometimes when I knew there’s fallen shit on my regular trail. It’s such a good feeling thing to clear up a section of a trail after a storm
Is that a Silky?
Yeah, Silky Big Boy
I got a folding Silky saw for christmas. That thing cuts almost like a chainsaw.
You used that hand saw?
Yeah. Silky Big Boy. It’s a really good saw
Please don’t do unauthorized trail maintenance. You create a hell of a lot of liability and lawyers ruin everything.
unauthorized trail maintenance
Lmao
Is this some kind of US thing I’m to UK to understand?
It’s just a US person that’s paranoid.
Besides who the fuck is gonna sue the park they’re literally trying to clean up if they hurt themselves? And the park ain’t suing them unless their “maintenance” is observed and really donks stuff up.
Moving some brush and debris off a trail, nobody would complain or get in trouble in reality.
Mate they’ve got too much freedom over in yankee land, you’d probably get sued for chopping up someone’s wood. Or if you hurt yourself chopping the wood up you might try and sue the wood owner because you have to pay for the doctor to fix you up.
Yes. In the UK, you would need a loicense to do trail maintenance
How? Is someone tripping over that stick any different than another stick…? Isn’t it making the space more safe
If he got hurt doing train maintenance, or someone saw him doing trail maintenance and decided to do some themselves, and they got hurt, that opens up a lot of liability
Those concerns are over hyped from main stream media trying to promote tort reform. Very, very few people would sue a state park because they tripped over a tree branch and no one would be successful if they did.
It all sounds like an American problem because they don’t have public healthcare.
While I think your concern is a bit overblown, this sort of stuff can be dangerous.
We have no idea what sort of trail this is. Much of my hiking is private land, lots in park of various jurisdictions.
The biggest case of poison oak I had in the past decade was from avoiding a fallen tree. Where are these lawyers you speak of when I need them! Ha!
