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by p4bl0 1768 days ago
If you're obsessed with base64 here is a fun thing for you:

A few years ago I randomly remarked that repeated base64 prefix converge to a fixed point. I tweeted [1] the first characters of that string out of amusement, without any additional details.

Then someone saw the tweet, found it funny, and did a write-up about it [2], and then there was an interesting discussion on Reddit [3]. There may have been one on HN too, I don't remember.

Have fun :).

[1] https://twitter.com/p4bl0/status/298900842076045312

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160313123301/https://fmota.eu/...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/18234a/the_base64_...