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		olliej on June 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Should you encrypt or compress first?” Success: compress.sh: #!/bin/bash echo "#!/bin/bash" echo curl $1 ./compress.sh https://mikeash.com/tmp/randomfile.bin > randomfile.compressedzomg :D /me hides

mikeash on June 28, 2016 [–]

You're lucky I'm too lazy to edit a byte on the server and then ask you if it still matches.

Normal_gaussian on June 28, 2016 | [–]

It would. You would need to change the location of the file

mikeash on June 28, 2016 | | [–]

Fine, fine, you're^Wthey're lucky I'm too lazy to make it return new random data each time.

olliej on June 29, 2016 | | [–]

\o/ :D

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