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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until the user has bit rot or some stupid thing is offset by one or a row doesn't exist somewhere and you have to correct for it

[โ€“] mindbleach 1 points 10 months ago

A corrupted bitmap should only look ugly. There is no decoding or compression - only translation, and sometimes not even that.

A bitmap is the platonic ideal of a buffer overrun being comically obvious and trivially preventable.