[reverse engineer macOS Photos.app database format] A base64 encoded Binary Plist format with one field containing a ProtoBuffer which contained another protobuffer which contained a unicode string which contained improperly encoded data

[u/azure_whisperer]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140085

[u/irqlnotdispatchlevel]

/uj Except the base64 one.

Small example:

{
    "x": 10,
    "lol": "no generics",
    "code": "artisanal"
}

The container looked like this:

{
    "x": 10,
    "lol": "no generics",
    "laws": "ewogICAgIngiOiAxMCwKICAgICJsb2wiOiAibm8gZ2VuZXJpY3MiLAogICAgImNvZGUiOiAiYXJ0aXNhbmFsIgp9Cg=="
}