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jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

Oh wow. The beta page wasn't there the other week.
Perhaps thd will shed some light on the login/pw

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 1:59 am

Irregular Programming · Veteran Joined: 31 May 2014 Posts: 115

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:12 am

jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 2:37 am

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

New THD episode finally popped up in my feed. It's 39 minutes long. O_O

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:34 pm

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

Definitely sounds like there's an encoded message in this one. Will throw it into Audacity soon.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 3:38 pm

jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

His speech to text totally mangled my post lol.
He asked me to write back and explain myself. Ideas on what we should say next?

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:10 pm

jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

Seems like quite a job typing out everything he says in the other rider mail. Is anyone familiar with the application(s) he's reading code from? From what I heard, I'd assume it's what he uses for the podcast.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:23 pm

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

Around 23 minutes into the podcast you can hear the train conductor voice say, VERY CLEARLY, "Attention Passengers: Don't believe his lies. Find the truth about the decay. Thank you."

In the middle of all that error output stuff Jim read out he says something about "lambda method". Lambda I know can be related to radioactive decay.

At the beginning Jim says some stuff about splicing the beginning of one sentence with the end of a different sentence. I tried pitching up the audio and speeding it up (a-la nightcore) but am not seeing anything hidden. I'm not so good with that sort of thing though so someone might want to take a second look.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 4:58 pm

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:38 pm

jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

At the end of each line of code is a number preceded by a + sign.

392
815
4515
138
6738869
6741487
586
107
288
180
486
389
458
171
274
39
120
452
15
33
240
28
15
53
15
42
15
606
288

EDIT: If I did my math right, they should add to 13491116.

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

"That offset seems crazy. Is this like a split method that exists across megabytes like, it's like a German sentence where the the verb is split 2, split in half and like one half goes to the beginning of the sentence, the one half goes to the end of the sentence and like in this method half of it goes to the beginning of the program and half of it goes to the end of the program? That must be what is happening. This program is written in German."

This episode does seem to be cut up a bit strangely. There are times where the train beeps like the conductor is going to say something but nothing is heard. Other times the conductor speaks without a preceding beep. Maybe we have to stitch the audio back together?

jimmc3rd, I noticed those numbers too, but have no idea what they could mean, if anything.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:00 pm

dangerskew · Boot Joined: 01 Sep 2015 Posts: 68

There is a missing number from the sequence found in the image. What Jim says in the audio differs from the "show notes" at one part.

The 6th line in the image (and the 7th line [with line 1 being the Win32Exception block] in the audio) reads as:

**Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2015 12:11 am

Irregular Programming · Veteran Joined: 31 May 2014 Posts: 115

**Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2015 3:43 am

jimmc3rd · Veteran Joined: 01 Aug 2015 Posts: 97

Just after the 10:30 mark when he's reading

**Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2015 3:59 am

ajbau · Boot Joined: 27 May 2015 Posts: 67

Podtrac is used to monitor the podcast downloads the link in the RSS feed shows this

**Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2015 5:04 am