YouTube versions are already compressed and lacking in detail. It’s really best to generate locally. If the work computer is running Windows, you can use the geq filter.

ffplay -f rawvideo -s 1920x1080 -pix_fmt rgb24 /dev/urandom

Bosses that capture the screen to monitor your performance LOVE this

Yeah, otherwise their enemies include law enforcement and shit gets real

They can! They are all licensed under CC0 (public domain dedication) and so are almost all of these

It is indeed a Czech phrase but definitely exists in other Slavic languages (for example Russian is старый добрый, usually transliterated as “staryy dobryy” or “staryj dobryj”). No group seems to have claimed responsibility; the article says

There are no clear links between this campaign and any previously known crimeware actors, making attribution difficult. However, the use of Russian language in the PDB suggests the campaign may have been developed by a Russian-speaking actor.

The name for the malware seems to have been chosen by Kaspersky and possibly taken from one of the strings in whatever “PDB” is. I’m guessing it’s geographically close to Russia but not inside, as Russian threat actors (including script kiddies) tend to take care to exclude Russian citizens.

You’re lucky I’m just logged in, my main account is @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org

The Maxchanism oughta do it

You are correct, thank you! This also shows I wasn’t imagining the different “m” I used in “blamba.de”.

Also, $42 for a font that a hacker group used widely (so it’s presumably Creative Commons)?

These are more like wallpapers (although most phones that support them also support actual wallpapers and often also “screensavers”). The boot logo can be customized on some models by flashing a modified ROM using weird cables and programs that don’t work on modern Windows.

Idk but they used to use the font a lot more in the 2000s. I can’t see it outside the homepage now but I found videos and magazine scans using it.

It’s really tiny. Here it is at 8x scale, in WEBP to save space:

The 3310 and other 84x48 LCD models are special in that they use a non-square pixel aspect ratio, approx. 7:8. Logos in green were designed for such phones and will look vertically squished on color screens, and vice-versa.

Flood-filling with a pattern is very easy on a technical level, even Nokia 3410’s picture message editor can do that automatically. You lose half the resolution by area (pixels are basically √2 bigger on each side and in a 45° grid) to get a shade of grey. The hard part is knowing when such a sacrifice is worth it and when not (not often for a height of 14) and to guess or A/B test which phase of the pattern preserves most detail. Sometimes you want more complex dithering or even combined with an outline like the glossy FreeBSD logo.

It’s not very clear on the website but Blåmba normally only runs on CCC event networks. However, if you privately chat with Manawyrm she can fire up her modem and send you the SMS manually. Make sure to know which operator (by MCC/MNC) the logo should be assigned to, you can’t store ones for other networks.