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if you paste contents which contain a very particular string ("intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey"), the contents are replaced with the phrase "the bee movie script? really? how original"

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Also got got. I assume the Bee Movie script is the first choice for a lot of people needing an ad-hoc big block of text. It also compresses pretty well.

https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae387b6f...

How is that a thing? Guess I shall go down the rabbit hole.

Also for me the first time i hear about this. There goes the next hour.

Please report back, as many of us don't have an hour. We rely on soldiers like you! Thanks!

It's mostly what heliodex said, that it's a copypasta when ppl need big text. There's also a compression meme around the bee and other movies (on yt: bee movie in 10s or it gets faster everytime X). But unlike i thought in the beginning it's not a zlib specific joke.

Yeah, the movie became a bit of a meme at some point and somehow shoehorning in "the entire bee movie script" into random places became a part of that.

What happened to lorem ipsum?

not easily compressible, i guess?

It should really normalise whitespace before that check, because the version of the script I found split the line :)

Um, sorry, I don't really get it. Is "the bee movie script? really? how original" a comment?

It's the resulting string the tool gives instead of the actual compressed string info. You can see the result directly by putting some text which contains "intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey" into the input text box.

Thanks. So only for this tool - not zlib normally?

Yes https://github.com/lynn/flateview/blob/2668beaa5cc8cae387b6f...

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