#u can highlight in color and write on the pages!!! hello!!!

[clairabow]

have seen several videos on the kobo libra color and now i want one

[lifeofthegrind]

hello!! I’m new to studyblr and really love your blog!! I was wondering what your note taking process is... for example do you write your notes the way they are the first time? or do you write your notes as anyone would in class and then rewrite them after you have your first draft? thanks!!

hi thank you so much and welcome! my note taking process varies from class to class, and i’ll put overly-detailed info abt that in the read more but if u take 2 points pls let it be these:

don’t rewrite your notes (it might b fun but unless you’re making a review sheet from a lot of different notes or something: it’s just a huge waste of time and it’s not helpful for actually reviewing material!)

all you need to take notes is a pen/pencil and a notebook (seriously. if you are abt to spend a bunch of money on colored pens or w/e for fun? go nuts. but if it’s bc you think it will help you study better? it will not.)

ok here we go (no pictures! bc 1. i am too lazy to take the time to find my old notes and 2. i don’t want u to try to emulate what my notes look like. these are supposed to work for u!)

for in-class notes on a lecture, i tend to just have a black pen and scribble everything down as fast as i can. bullet point format. i copy down what the professor is saying, but if they’re repeating something i go back and circle it, or if i notice a connection i just draw a line between the concepts. might look chaotic to other ppl  but as long as i remember what i meant then it’s doing it’s job. for a math or science class i usually keep a second color pen to write Important Formulas or a pencil to work out example problems if those are a thing

for discussion classes it’s moving a lot faster you shouldn’t b focused on note-taking you should b participating!! my notes here are just abt keeping me awake lol. might write down something someone says if it’s interesting (including and especially myself tbh! most of my papers are based on a random point i made while babbling in class!) mostly tho it’s just doodles :) oh also sometimes i think of jokes during class and write them down to text to my friends later

textbook notes are my neatest and *~prettiest~* notes. they take me h o u r s not bc i’m making elaborate drawings but bc i use v neat handwriting to force myself to slow down and actually read every word. i use one (1) black pen and one (1) colored highlighter for headers/definitions/formulas. in the beginning of high school i was still figuring shit out and ended up writing down like. every detail even if it wasn’t important in the slightest? but after experience u get like a sixth sense for what u actually need to write down (my go-to is one page of 8x11 notes per 10 pages of reading). also my handwriting has gotten better :D (after 90 pages of textbook reading in one night it usually deteriorates into a scrawl tho)

[editbangtan]

hello, i was looking through your page, and I love your headers and icons, and I was just wondering how you edit your headers, I'm learning how, and would love your advice!

hi 💕 i’m sorry for replying too late bcs i’m inactive here.. thank u so much for loving my headers and icons your msg made me so happy 

for headers, i usually like to add quotes/text (there are many good fonts on deviantart ) download many fonts before starting to edit (i recommend u to use simple fonts to write lyrics and let cool fonts like handwriting ones to highlight a word or a short phrase) also u can add shapes/pngs behind text or beside it ( check this ) 

if u want to add pics on a header then here are some res that can help u (this + this + this + this) 

if u want to make a header from a picture u can add coloring on it and some actions like 3d, sharpen and noise actions ( ofc u don’t have to add all of them just choose what u want) 

here are some good 3d actions: this, this and this 

 sharpen: this and this

 noise: u can add it yourself from filters>noise>add noise

btw i’m using photoshop.. 

[hermannsthumb]

hi maria if u have the inspiration and the time would u perhaps consider writing something where newt thinks they r actual rivals but hermann’s just into the homoeroticism of a rivals to lovers Situation? i just think thatd be a fun time :-) xoxo, Not AJ

hehe hello aj........hope u enjoy. shout-out to twitter for helping me w magazine names lol. this also gives me a great opportunity to write some classic Hermann Screwing With Newt. not enough of that content.

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“I read your interview,” Hermann says.

Newt glances up from his workbench: Hermann is standing in front of him, one hand wrapped around the handle of his cane, the other brandishing a brightly-colored magazine at Newt. Newt sets down his hacksaw and shoves up his goggles (oversized, to allow space for his glasses) to properly squint at Hermann. “What?”

“Your interview in Bio,” Hermann says. He holds up the magazine a little higher, and, sure enough, Newt catches sight of a tiny, saturated photograph of himself smiling awkwardly at the top of the page, the Meet Dr. Newton Geiszler, The World’s Top-Leading Expert in K-Biology in bold purple capitals next to it. Hermann has the faintest hint of a smirk on his face. “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me they were featuring you. A two-page spread, at that.”

Blushing, Newt snatches away the magazine. “That’s because it’s trash, and I only did it for the money,” he says. The photo they used of him turned out terrible, too, now that he’s getting a closer look at it--the stylist they had on hand spiked Newt’s hair up with a stupid amount of hair gel and made him take off his tie, and they posed him with his arms crossed in a super corny fake lab set. Smoking beakers and everything. Like Newt’s a baby-cheeked mad scientist. “All they did was ask me about my personal life. Not a single question about my research. Who’s gonna give a shit about that?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” Hermann says. “I imagine it’s rather humanizing to know the fate of the world partially rests in the hands of--” A mock-thoughtful expression crosses his face, like he hasn’t committed the entire article to memory already, the jackass. “--someone who favors boxers over briefs.”

“Yeah, well, I wasn’t gonna tell thousands of people I go commando, was I?”

“Or, if he was a type of potato,” Hermann says, like he didn’t hear him, “would be ‘tater-tots’. I can’t believe that’s a question they asked you.”

“Ha, ha,” Newt deadpans. “Glad you’re having fun. You done yet?”

“Almost,” Hermann says, gleefully. He hands Newt the magazine and taps a section he’s circled, neatly, in yellow highlighter. Newt snatches it away. “I quite enjoyed the bit where you talk about me.”

Hermann, my partner--research partner, I mean, not--uh--total genius, keeps me on my feet, Newt said, because they’d asked Newt about his personal relationships after interrogating him about his old band for twenty minutes, and, seeing as Newt has no friends, and hasn’t had a steady boyfriend in seven months, Hermann (who is sort-of kind-of both) was the first and only person who sprang to mind. I really admire the guy, even if he can be a total pain in the ass sometimes. He’s not afraid to tell me when I’m wrong. I’m not afraid to tell him when he’s wrong. It’s like--we’re not really friends, more scientific rivals.

The article didn’t edit out anything, of course. Hearing it over now makes Newt cringe in mortification. Scientific rivals--yeesh. He may as well have said half their arguments end with Hermann’s tongue down Newt’s throat.

“Scientific rivals,” Hermann echoes, taking the magazine back. “That’s how you see us.”

He sounds way too amused for Newt’s liking, so Newt snaps his goggles back into place, pulls on a fresh rubber glove, and sticks his hand into the kaiju spleen on his bench with a wet squish (relishing in Hermann’s wince) before answering. “We are scientific rivals. What else was I supposed to call us? Frenemies-for-life? Lab partners with benefits?”

Hermann hums noncommittally.

Newt pulls his hand from the spleen. He frowns. “You don’t think we’re rivals?”

“‘Rivals’ implies that we’re on--ah--equal footing,” Hermann says. “Statistically speaking, Newton--I do tend to win more arguments.” His smug little smile from earlier returns. “Thirty-seven percent more, to be precise.”

“Of course you’ve calculated that,” Newt says. Probably up there on his chalkboard crammed in the corner of all his Breach data. Tally: Newt, 3061, Hermann, 4000....something. Newt’s a biologist, man, he doesn’t care about this shit. “So, what, if you don’t actually think we’re,” he pitches his voice into his Hermann Impression, “intellectual equals, you just like arguing for shits and giggles?”

“Now, I never said I don’t consider you an equal,” Hermann scoffs. A touch condescendingly. Oh, God, he’s probably adding this conversation to his tally the second they’re done--Newt’s jumping to conclusions or tossing out ridiculous hypotheses with unsubstantiated data, or whatever cards Hermann likes to play to shut him up. June 5, 2024: Swiftly explained to Newton that he’s not beneath me, how ridiculous of him to think otherwise. “Or that I don’t--in the broad sense of the term--consider you a rival. Merely that I’m usually right.”

Newt sticks his tongue out.

“Though you’re spot-on about arguing,” Hermann says.

Newt stops sticking his tongue out. “What?” he says.

“You’re spot-on,” Hermann repeats. The tips of his sticky-out ears go pink. “I enjoy arguing with you, and having you consider me your rival. It’s--” He clears his throat. “Stimulating.”

The way Hermann says the word makes it very clear that it’s not in the intellectual sense. More in the clothing-on-the-lab-floor-getting-off-on-getting-pissed-off sense. “Stimulating?”

“And a touch romantic,” Hermann confesses. “The cliche of it all, I mean.” He sounds a bit dreamy when he adds “Rivals.”

Hermann Gottlieb, self-professed dealer of cold, mathematical facts only, scorner of sentimentality in all forms, standing in front of Newt and implying they have a forbidden romance right out of some dimestore bodice-ripper. Newt should’ve known it was all an act from the very beginning: Hermann hand-wrote him letters in the twenty-first century instead of just copying and pasting his email from the MIT faculty page like any normal person. “You drama-loving bitch,” Newt says, grinning. “I feel like I should be offended.”

Hermann’s ears have gone fully red. “I know you enjoy it too.”

“Uh-huh,” Newt says. He tosses both filthy gloves to his bench (enjoying Hermann’s second disgusted wince of the day), wipes his hands off on his corduroys, then pulls his goggles off all the way. “C’mon, I want you to look over my weekly report before I send it off to Pentecost. You can tell me how bad it is and then we can make out.”

“That sounds nice,” Hermann says, and follows him happily to his desk.

[cordovcs]

✩ °｡— hi omg ok let’s get into this good, fun & fresh content & lemme introduce u to my lil bi sexual hellion who has tequila running thru her bloodstream & oh ya hi i’m annie, 23, she / her plot w me i want u to hurt me worse than shonda rhimes has ever dared to idk bye

name: hello this is indigo capri cordova 

sexual orientation: bi as fuck

birthplace: west hollywood, california 

major: communications 

spoken languages: english 

zoadic: psycho 

- hello this is indigo

- alright, to set the scene... let’s imagine that there is a beautiful image of a car before us; however, that car is surrounded by dark smoke bc that said car is absolutely engulfed in flames bc it’s driver is an #idiot 

- but also imagine within that image of total chaos & destruction that the driver... yes the one i mentioned previously as an #idiot... is still there... but this bitch is throwing up deuces & taking selfies 

- that is indigo 

- but more importantly here:

— first-born into wealthy, powerful family & was raised by her father, an influential diplomat & european oil tycoon, & her mother, a famed american socialite with ties to many corrupt government families. basically, her mother was her father’s entire world … ten years younger than him, a trust fund that kept her occupied, & a taste for adventure —  he devoted himself to her &her only … indi was simply just a factor in his adoration, as her mother craved maternity & of course, her father would do anything to please her, even if that meant creating a child he did not care for. 

— as she matured ( if u could even say she’s mature ?? idk ) & learned of her father’s distaste for her, she began to act out … wild parties, late night conquests with strangers that lurked outside of the club, & lethal cocktails of drugs & alcohol. at first, it was just to anger her father, but it soon became a way of life for her. now, despite having been in & out of rehab for a mixture of reasons, it’s a miracle to catch her sober who knows what this week’s cocktail is

— unfortunately, like her father, indi struggles with addiction in many forms. there’s something about the feeling of elevation that comes with each sip of tequila as it leaves a burning trace down her esophagus, each drag of a burning cigarette … it’s an escape. but, she’ll never truly admit that she has a problem, no matter how many stints of rehab she serves.

— however, there are some euphoric rushes that are unattainable by drugs &alcohol only.  which, y’know, explains why so many of the anecdotes of her past occurred ; from the four-wheeling accident in the hills of malibu that left her twelve year old self with a crown of stitches carefully detailed above her right eyebrow, hanging over the edge at devil’s pool while visiting victoria falls on a sudden trip to south africa last year, the countless automobile accidents that have been brushed off as her ‘terrible’ driving skills, they are all her heroin. if you’re only on this earth for a handful of years, why not enjoy pressing that gas pedal to the floor & see how far you can go ??

— lust, euphoria, & chaotic control … these are the sins that drive her entire being. red lips kissed around a lit cigarette, smoke curling upwards, & eyes devouring the svelte body before her; indigo exudes an ominous & enticing aura, but that’s what is captivating about her. it’s her siren-like facade that pulls you in & refuses to let you go.

— she’s a drug, malignant & bewitching, her delicate words interlace w your inner demons, calling upon them & feeding your deepest, darkest desires. when she enters a room, all eyes fall to her, watching & analyzing. she enjoys to elicit fear or unease, to keep others watching her & following. her greatest fear is losing control of what she has, forbidden to uproot time &time again in search of her next greatest adrenaline rush ( which, by the way, she’s a total adrenaline junky ).

— most of these actions, of course, were highlighted thoroughly on television for several of her adolescent years when her family signed a multi-million dollar contract for a reality show … her family is basically the kardashians, ok ? while it may seem gr8 to have a television show & acquire fame through that, there were many downsides …. one of which was her father’s involvement in an embezzlement scheme before her eighteenth birthday ? bASICALLY his illicit actions & their outcome were showcased on national tv & that really had an impact on indi’s life ?? the tabloids already targeted her bc of her wild ways, but now the entire world was analyzing her family & talking shit which caused her to grow an even thicker shell & fight back with even more vicious words.

— but now 

— rn she is basically paris hilton on the simple life except a lil smarter, less juicy tracksuits, & she cut off basically all of her family to tRY to be normal on her own which ig is why she is here 

— she’s somewhat of a mad scientist when it comes to writing music ? like, full on goes rouge for a matter of days & locks herself away in a room with a bottle of tequila & a pack of marlboro lights. she carries around a lil leather black book with her at all times , where she will literally stop in the middle of whatever she’s doing ( whether that be a film shoot, a night at the club, during conversation ) just to write down her thought process or newfound muse. it includes everything from names, how an intimate kiss felt, poetry, colors, etc. there’s probably half-written songs within the pages. oH !! & she never, ever lets anyone touch it or read it … like, she would lose her absolute shit if it somehow got beyond her hands.

- but tbh she doesnt kno why she is studying communications when she could study music 

[notebookmusical]

hi cossette, can you give some tips on how to annotate books (for fun)? as in, do you color code / do you highlight / do you use pen or pencil / what's your system? and if u don't mind me asking, what does a finished annotated page look like for you? thank you!

hello love!! it really depends on what i'm annotating — and for who! if i'm annotating for myself, i usually use tabs and color code that way, and then sometimes i’ll write in pen! i don’t really like highlighting, because usually it’ll bleed and i also like being able to quickly find what i need, rather than having to flip through to find specific quotes! if i’m reading on my kindle or laptop though, i’ll use the built in highlighters, since they’re easily searchable! i tried to find an annotated page for you to look at, but most of mine are either very personal, or filled with inside jokes, so they might not be very helpful, but i’ve got a reel here that shows my process a little! 

i’ve found it easier to annotate books if i’ve read them before, because then i can color code by specific themes/motifs (for example, with these violent delights, i color coded for things like “quotes i relate to”, “specific imagery/prose i like”, “betrayal/feud”, “foreshadowing”, etc! you can kind of see how my tabs look in this picture of the witch haven! 

i hope that helps some! i can also go into more detail if you have any questions 🤍 

[humansoulsarg]

Mostly Transparent Lancelot Picture Solve

http://pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/post/157859818882/

This post consists of a mostly transparent image and a YouTube link. After removing the transparency from the image and adjusting the color levels, Lancelot is revealed:

The video linked from the post

https://youtu.be/AZcJMbyAq8k

Title is 154075_156070 - which is the Frog Emoji code in Octal. The video shows slightly glitched shots of a possible shopping trip. We start off seeing a Crowned Frog tin of Lindt chocolate next to some sort of Jack Links beastly snacks. Then we briefly see bottles on a bar, one reading 'ARGENTINA' on the lid, before bearing witness to a Snowman and Penguin pair of figures. Next up is a U*SPICY (Fashion Meets Technology) box which opens to reveal a nail dryer. Spicy indeed. Then we see shots of a ceramic-looking Crowned Frog ?pitcher? item in a window. Next up a book is held open to a page with penguins, including an adult and infant embracing. The text is:

Love is cuddling up when it’s icy and cold

A hand closes the book to reveal the same image on the cover. The book’s title is ‘Love makes the world go round’ with a cutaway heart revealing subtitle ‘Tales of love that last forever’

The audio is in stereo with Signal in the left channel and Noise in the right. There are four sections of audio in the left channel:

sped-up voices

DTMF Tones

spectrogram Braille

more sped-up voices

By slowing down the sped up voices by a factor of 4, it is revealed that these are audio clips of the Spice Girls from the Sony PlayStation game Spice World. After a bit of investigation, it was revealed that (surprise, surprise) there was a code in play here. The first section appears to feature Ginger and does not have any repeated phrases, and provides an index for the second section, which contains audio from the other Spice Girls. The transcript of the first section is:

0-Hello everybody, and whats the first question? 1-Hello! 2-Its your turn! 3-Oh no not that old question! 4-Ok everybody, thats all we’ve got time for! 5-Cut the crap it’s a wrap! 6-Sorry, we would love to stay but weve got to move on. 7-Its been real but we’ve got to go! 8-This is the producer by the way. 9-Meet the DJ, he’ll mix it down for you!

And the second set of 4x sped-up audio:

0-Hello everybody, what’s your first question? 7-It’s been real but now we’ve got to go. 0-Hello everybody, now what’s the first question? 1-Hello. 6-Sorry, we’d love to stay but we’ve got to move on. 1-Hello. 1-Hello. 2-It’s Your turn. 1-Hello. 2-Now it’s your turn. 2-It’s your turn. 1-Hello. 3-Oh no, not that old question. 6-Sorry, we’d really love to stay but we’ve got to move on. 1-Hello. 5-Cut the crap, it’s a wrap. 1-Hello. 1-Hello. 4-Okay everybody that’s all we’ve got time for. 5-Cut the Crap, it’s a wrap. 1-Hello.

This was determined to be reverse Octal code: 154 115 163 122 121 161 070 = lMsRQq8

A 7-character imgur link ID:

A high-quality image of an advertisement for the Spice World PlayStation Experience. Upon close inspection, a hex code was found in the bottom left corner of the poster: 70573438523431 = pW48R41

Another imgur link:

A poster for Spice World The Movie with some color channel glitching going on, along with some interesting behavior in the credits section. After aligning the channels, it was found that certain letters were being highlighted in the credits:

The highlighted letters (including the tiny 'B’ and 'Y’ which were almost lost to JPG compression) are: QEYLHSYBRITLKRUWSIYCJT which can be decoded as Vigenere with key 'Lancelot’ to become FELJDHKIGIGJGGGDHILAFI which may not look that promising at first, but it’s similar to the Octal alphabet codes we’ve seen before, with the twist being using K and L for 11 and 12, respectively.

65 120 48 119 79 70 77 74 89 121 69 = Ax0wOFMJYyE

https://youtu.be/Ax0wOFMJYyE

This video has hex title 'courtyard’ and shows Lancelot speaking in an outdoor setting:

We know that the cube interpolates and creates data to fill gaps where none exists. We know that it often seems to think in an organic way. Do you believe that a sufficiently detailed simulation of a human being, if written to the cube could eventually achieve independent thought?

The Alyssa Project: Reproducible Realistic Human Processes. Building Blocks of Thought

This appears to be the end of this portion of the trail as no hidden codes or data are to be found in this video. But there’s plenty of hints and intonations of possibilities for our friends at Pangent Technologies.

So back to the original video, for the next portion of Signal from the audio. The DTMF tones were transcribed and then stumped the players for a few days, so we will come back to those. The spectrogram Braille code was decoded as: AGABEACFJCEABDACBABBA

Which looks suspiciously like reverse Octal again, so: 122 123 142 153 063 152 171 -> RSbk3jy

Another imgur link:

Another movie poster for Spice World, this time hiding a barcode in the top:

Which decodes as 120208372608765906730412480300111

This was found to be encoded with a staggered multiplying technique. To decode, group the digits in threes: 120 208 372 608 765 906 730 412 480 300 111 then divide by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

(Side note for those keeping score at home, this post has now included both Frogs and Fractions)

120 104 124 152 153 151 146 103 160 150 111= PDTjkifCphI

https://youtu.be/PDTjkifCphI

Video of Lancelot with hex title 'rubber tree’. This again shows Lancelot in the same courtyard as before, with a few choice words for us:

Oh, you have made a mess of things haven’t you? What a shame. I had such high hopes for you <sigh>

Oh no. That doesn’t sound good. Again, the trail appears to end at this point, so it’s back to the original video with the remaining Signal section from the audio, the DTMF tones.

The tones were decoded as:

87865785796899487706774978#269508487080683488653978878*6

and this sequence of digits with two non-digit symbols had the Pangent Technologies Sister Location stumped for a while. Eventually a crack was found by grouping the digits by 2 and setting *=11, #=12 and 0=10 if it was the first digit in a group of 2 but 0 if it was the last. Then decoding as decimal ASCII.

87 86 57 85 79 68 99 48 77 106 77 49 78 122 69 50 84 87 108 106 83 48 86 53 97 88 78 116 = WV9UODc0MjM1NzE2TWljS0V5aXNt

This string, while not making immediate sense, at least was alphanumeric. Then, by decoding it as base64 text, the following was obtained:

Y_T874235716MicKEyism

This string showed promise as Y_T seemed to suggest YouTube while the grouping of digits and letters with 'MicKEyism’ seemed too unlikely to be mere random noise or coincidence. It was then noted that there were nine digits and nine letters after the digits, but we expected 11 digits for a YouTube link. The nine digits were found to be a mapping for the nine letters where by placing the digits in the same order as the letters, then writing down the letters in numeric order, eight letters are obtained (due to the repeated #7, i). Then, prepending the oddly coincidental 'Y_T’ to the front gives the 11 character YouTube ID we were seeking:

https://youtu.be/Y_TsKEcymiM

This video has hex title 'auto reply’ and again shows Lancelot in the courtyard by the rubber tree, this time answering the phone:

Pangent Technologies. Uh no, she’s not here right now, sorry. <shakes head and sighs>

Again, the trail ends in Lancelot’s courtyard, completing the solve of this post.

[neptunecreek]

EFF's DEF CON 27 T-Shirt Puzzle

At Hacker Summer Camp 2019, EFF unveiled our 10th-annual limited edition member shirt—available only during the three-day event, and inspired by the DEF CON theme of Technology’s Promise: “a break from the dystopian imagery into a major-key, blue-sky thoughtscape, full of color and light...a future where we have tamed some of the more intractable problems that plague us in the present, where technology supports and inspires instead of controlling and surveilling.” We took cues from the DEF CON 27 Theme Guide, an illustrated ePub detailing thought exercises, media that inspired the theme, and color/style breakdowns. The theme was heavily influenced by the French comic artist Moebius’ piece entitled Alice, a piece that envisions “a future where tech lives up to our highest hopes.”

Shirt Design

EFF’s shirt design is an homage to Moebius, including artwork of a user in a digital future where the downsides of technology have been overcome. She's got a flying machine that is so efficient that it doesn't require her attention; she's got a vintage laptop from the early 21st century that still works thanks to the interoperability of her systems; she can communicate freely, using archaic Morse code, thanks to strong encryption on all of her devices; and of course, she has the ability to change her hair color at will.

As in previous years, we’ve included a secret puzzle built into the design of our exclusive member shirt as a special thanks for the clever, curious EFFers who support our work. Read on for a breakdown of the puzzle design and a walkthrough of the puzzle elements. Or, try to solve it yourself! The puzzle can be found at https://www.eff.org/shr/ and will be available through September 30th. After the 30th, the puzzle can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Puzzle Design

We established a technological utopia in our shirt design, and used only one rule to create a fantasy world map of this future: draw like Moebius. With this rule in mind, we wondered - what was under the clouds in the shirt design? Where would this user park her flying machine? We gathered reference materials to inspire us, and studied Le Monde d'Edena to capture Moebius’ distinct architectural and landscape style. We wanted the fantasy map to draw players into the world, where they would get lost in the tiny paths and buildings of this utopian civilization, eventually finding doors and hidden passages to the elements of the puzzle.

Printable version of EFF's DEF CON 27 puzzle map

Puzzle Walkthrough

Players access the puzzle via the morse code URL on the screen of the intrepid user in our shirt design (. ..-. ..-. .-.-.- --- .-. --. -..-. ... .... .-.). After arriving on the website, mousing over the map reveals glowing links in four different locations. The tower holds the final goal, which can only be deciphered after solving the other three puzzles. We decided to make progression through the puzzle non-linear this year in order to facilitate collaboration, and to give solvers time to do other DEF CON activities in between working on the EFF puzzle.

Knitting

The “first” puzzle can be found by hovering over the entrance to the palace. The page displays a knitting pattern in chart form. Knitting was chosen as a theme due to the history of women using knit fabrics for “steganography”—to hold concealed messages in times of war, particularly World War I. We also wanted to highlight skill sets not often represented in the cybersecurity space—someone familiar with knitting can immediately recognize something wrong with this pattern. There are entire rows of open circles, the symbol for a “yarn over” (skipping a stitch to create a hole), which doesn’t make sense. Inspecting the pattern reveals a hint, however: “the yarn overs are blanks”. Here are some examples of common patterns—you can compare to see the difference.

If you aren’t familiar with knitting, searching “yarn over” and identifying the symbol is the first step to solving this puzzle. The next is recognizing that the page title “SOS” is hinting at more morse code. Looking at the image, there are three different kinds of rows: all knits (blank squares), all purls (filled circles), and all yarn overs. We already know that the yarn overs are blanks from the hint, so that means trying the pattern in two ways: one with the knits as dots, and one as dashes. The correct method is converting knits to dots, which gives the morse code string “.-- .- -. -.. . .-.” which translates to “wander”.

“ASCII” Art

The next puzzle’s page is a throwback to an older Internet era, and is located at the docks tunnel. The page contains (mostly) ASCII art, like the following header that was used in EFF’s EFFector mailings (if you haven’t signed up to receive them, you can do so here):

There are a few different ways to identify where the puzzle is on this page: noticing that the whitespace is off in some of the images, such as the computer, or by taking a closer look at the characters in the pieces themselves. Looking at the character codes, the non-ASCII character U+2800, a braille space, can be found in place of a standard ASCII space 32. A hint in the page reads: “the distribution doesn’t matter”— clueing the solver into the idea that the order of the braille spaces within the art doesn’t hold the solution. Using a script to count the occurrences of U+2800 in each art piece gives the following: ”99 101 112 104 97 108 111 112 111 100”, which are ASCII codepoints for “cephalopod”.

If you’re curious, check out the script used to encode the braille. You can count the characters with the following line of ruby, where the text is a single piece of art:

`text.count("\u2800").chr`

Syzygy

The third puzzle, found in the entrance to the temple, consists of this image:

The first hint towards solving this puzzle is in the URL: “5y2y6y” is “leetcode” for “syzygy”, which is a phenomenon where many celestial bodies (at least three) are collinear in the same gravitational system. The image, keeping with the theme of exploration, shows an imagined system of planets. The answer to the puzzle comes from the first number of rotation steps where the planets will all align under the arrow. There are a number of ways to find this number. The number is small enough that you can write a program to brute force the answer. Or, since the periods of the planets are relatively prime, you can use the Chinese remainder theorem. The first full syzygy of this planetary setup is at step 74800, or leetcode for “taboo”.

Final Puzzle

The last puzzle, located at the top of the tower, simply displays:

Inspecting the page gives the hint “O(ne) T(rue) P(airing)”, a reference to the one time pad cipher, a relatively old message encryption technique that is difficult to crack as long as the key is random, as long or longer than the plaintext, never reused, and kept secret. A tool like this one can be used to decrypt the text, or the adventurous can read about one time pads and try their hand at translating it themselves. The key to this one time pad is “wandercephalopodtaboo”, a combination of the answers from the three other puzzles. Using this key to decrypt the ciphertext translates it from “oerbslutpjenclprr” to  “seeyouspacecowboy”, marking the completion of the puzzle!

Winners

The winners of this year’s puzzle are @aaronsteimle,  @_pseudoku, and @0xCryptoK! Their team members also solved our 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018 DEF CON shirt puzzles.

Thank you to everyone who came by the booth to say hello, donated, and played through our puzzle! Creating this interactive art for our supporters is one of the highlights of our year, and we could not do it without you. If you’d like to support our work, consider becoming a member—and don’t forget to stop by the booth next year.

Until next time: “See you, space cowboy.”

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Testing display of HTML elements

This is 2nd level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 3rd level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 4th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 5th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

This is 6th level heading

This is a test paragraph.

Basic block level elements

This is a normal paragraph (p element). To add some length to it, let us mention that this page was primarily written for testing the effect of user style sheets. You can use it for various other purposes as well, like just checking how your browser displays various HTML elements by default. It can also be useful when testing conversions from HTML format to other formats, since some elements can go wrong then.

This is another paragraph. I think it needs to be added that the set of elements tested is not exhaustive in any sense. I have selected those elements for which it can make sense to write user style sheet rules, in my opionion.

This is a div element. Authors may use such elements instead of paragraph markup for various reasons. (End of div.)

This is a block quotation containing a single paragraph. Well, not quite, since this is not really quoted text, but I hope you understand the point. After all, this page does not use HTML markup very normally anyway.

The following contains address information about the author, in an address element.

Jukka Korpela, jkorpela@cs.tut.fi Päivänsäteenkuja 4 A, Espoo, Finland

Lists

This is a paragraph before an unnumbered list (ul). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can't guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a "list header".

One.

Two.

Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that for short items lists look better if they are compactly presented, whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.

Four. This is the last item in this list. Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.

The following is a menu list:

One.

Two.

Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer so that it will probably wrap to the next line in rendering.

The following is a dir list:

One.

Two.

Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer so that it will probably wrap to the next line in rendering.

This is a paragraph before a numbered list (ol). Note that the spacing between a paragraph and a list before or after that is hard to tune in a user style sheet. You can't guess which paragraphs are logically related to a list, e.g. as a "list header".

One.

Two.

Three. Well, probably this list item should be longer. Note that if items are short, lists look better if they are compactly presented, whereas for long items, it would be better to have more vertical spacing between items.

Four. This is the last item in this list. Let us terminate the list now without making any more fuss about it.

This is a paragraph before a definition list (dl). In principle, such a list should consist of terms and associated definitions. But many authors use dl elements for fancy "layout" things. Usually the effect is not too bad, if you design user style sheet rules for dl which are suitable for real definition lists.

recursion

see recursion

recursion, indirect

see indirect recursion

indirect recursion

see recursion, indirect

term

a word or other expression taken into specific use in a well-defined meaning, which is often defined rather rigorously, even formally, and may differ quite a lot from an everyday meaning

Text-level markup

CSS (an abbreviation; abbr markup used)

radar (an acronym; acronym markup used)

bolded (b markup used - just bolding with unspecified semantics)

big thing (big markup used)

large size (font size=6 markup used)

Courier font (font face=Courier markup used)

red text (font color=red markup used)

Origin of Species (a book title; cite markup used)

a[i] = b[i] + c[i); (computer code; code markup used)

here we have some deleted text (del markup used)

an octet is an entity consisting of eight bits (dfn markup used for the term being defined)

this is very simple (em markup used for emphasizing a word)

Homo sapiens (should appear in italics; i markup used)

here we have some inserted text (ins markup used)

type yes when prompted for an answer (kbd markup used for text indicating keyboard input)

Hello! (q markup used for quotation)

He said: She said Hello! (a quotation inside a quotation)

you may get the message Core dumped at times (samp markup used for sample output)

this is not that important (small markup used)

overstruck (strike markup used; note: s is a nonstandard synonym for strike)

this is highlighted text (strong markup used)

In order to test how subscripts and superscripts (sub and sup markup) work inside running text, we need some dummy text around constructs like x1 and H2O (where subscripts occur). So here is some fill so that you will (hopefully) see whether and how badly the subscripts and superscripts mess up vertical spacing between lines. Now superscripts: Mlle, 1st, and then some mathematical notations: ex, sin2x, and some nested superscripts (exponents) too: ex2 and f(x)g(x)a+b+c (where 2 and a+b+c should appear as exponents of exponents).

text in monospace font (tt markup used)

underlined text (u markup used)

the command cat filename displays the file specified by the filename (var markup used to indicate a word as a variable).

Some of the elements tested above are typically displayed in a monospace font, often using the same presentation for all of them. This tests whether that is the case on your browser:

This is sample text inside code markup

This is sample text inside kbd markup

This is sample text inside samp markup

This is sample text inside tt markup

Links

main page

Unicode Standard, chapter 6

This is a text paragraph that contains some inline links. Generally, inline links (as opposite to e.g. links lists) are problematic from the usability perspective, but they may have use as “incidental”, less relevant links. See the document Links Want To Be Links.

Tables

The following table has a caption. The first row and the first column contain table header cells (th elements) only; other cells are data cells (td elements), with align="right" attributes:

Sample table: Areas of the Nordic countries, in sq km Country Total area Land area Denmark 43,070 42,370Finland 337,030 305,470Iceland 103,000 100,250Norway 324,220 307,860Sweden 449,964 410,928

Character test

The following table has some sample characters with annotations. If the browser’s default font does not contain all of them, they may get displayed using backup fonts. This may cause stylistic differences, but it should not prevent the characters from being displayed at all.

Char. Explanation Notes ê e with circumflex Latin 1 character, should be ok — em dash Windows Latin 1 character, should be ok, too Ā A with macron (line above) Latin Extended-A character, not present in all fonts Ω capital omega A Greek letter − minus sign Unicode minus ⌀ diameter sign relatively rare in fonts

Jukka Korpela

Date of creation: 2000-09-15. Last update: 2013-03-21.