3 An Address to the Secret Society of PoCGTFO Concerning the Gospel of the Weird Machines and also the Smashing of Idols to Bits and Bytes

3:1 Fear Not!

We continue in PoCGTFO 3:2, in which our own Rt. Revd. Dr. Pastor Manul Laphroaig condemns the New Math and its modern equivalents. The only way one can truly learn how a computer works is by smashing these idols down to bits and bytes.

Like our last two issues, this one is a polyglot. It can be interpreted as a PDF, a ZIP, or a JPEG. In PoCGTFO 3:3, Ange Albertini demonstrates how the PDF and JPEG portions work. Readers will be pleased to discover that renaming pocorgtfo-03.pdf to pocorgtfo03.jpg is all that is required to turn the entire issue into one big cat picture!

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