2026-02-05 09:20:20 <iv4nshm4k0v > 
ACTION listens to http://he3.magnatune.com/all/10-Unspoken-Jami%20Sieber.mp3 

2026-02-05 17:32:00 <veltas      > Today I found out that the recommended way to extract an image from a slide in powerpoint is to RENAME THE FILE TO .ZIP AND EXTRACT THE MEDIA DIRECTORY
2026-02-05 17:48:33 <iv4nshm4k0v > It /is/ nice to see that a well-known format got adopted as a kind of 'container' for a variety of uses.  I don't recall ever needing to deal with Powerpoint, but I did use somewhat similar to read .docx files, like: $ unzip -p ... | sed -e "s/<[^>]*>//g;" | less .  (unzip(1) doesn't care about input file's filename, so it's never needed to rename it.)
2026-02-05 17:55:29 <iv4nshm4k0v > Also, not sure I like PDF's way better: $ qpdf --show-object=983 --raw-stream-data -- file.pdf | zlib-flate -uncompress > image.jpeg .
2026-02-05 21:03:01 <KipIngram   > So a PowerPoint file is just a zip file?