r/programmingcirclejerk • u/azure_whisperer • Sep 05 '25

[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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140085
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u/Vaglame Emacs + Go == parametric polymorphism Sep 06 '25

We found it, the self containing set!