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I'm in awe at the existence of this thing. Cannot say anything.

EDIT: Alright, I found something to say. Everything is stunningly perfect about this project except for one thing: the disturbing "mock greek" (using d as o and m as u, etc). Is it a sort of modern utf8 version of 1337-speek? Maybe it is too ironical to understand?

EDIT2: OK, now I get it. The "actually portable executables" use an amazing hack where the PE header itself gets executed as machine code, it turns out to be mostly harmless, and execution is captured from that forward, using other data parts of the header as code. This is the same thing your brain does when reading letters in mixed alphabets. It is confusing when you know both alfabets and try to read on each, but if you squint your eyes, then only the actual shape of the characters matters, and you can read it for its intended meaning. Thus it is a sort of self-referential title which is perfectly appropriate here.



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