Code translation

[u/suicidal_crayon]

Does anybody know how I would be able to translate this code, or is that just gibberish? It’s a screenshot from towards the end of season 2.

[u/Th3_D4rk_Kn1ght]

All of those blue screens (there are many of them during the show) are translatable into various texts. Relatively straightforward (albeit tedious if you do it by hand as I did many years ago). Google ASCII hexadecimal to get started.

[u/Status-Scientist1996 → u/Th3_D4rk_Kn1ght]

This one does appear to contain a lot of non-ascii characters which will make the thing a good bit more painful.

[u/Admirable_Writer4912 → u/Status-Scientist1996]

No need to translate all of them yourself, the POI wiki has them all:
https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Embedded_Codes

[u/Rubberfootman]

It is very likely just some nonsense that a graphic designer cooked up for a screen visual.

A lot of the POI on screen tech isn’t particularly convincing.

Edit: this apparently is not correct for POI (though it is often the case on other TV programs)

[u/Th3_D4rk_Kn1ght → u/Rubberfootman]

Couldn't be further from the truth - they are all actually translatable.

[u/neo101b → u/Rubberfootman]

That's not true, I member when the show first came out and I spent a bit of time decoding them.

[u/Rubberfootman → u/neo101b]

I am happy to be corrected. It’s just that I’d done on-screen assets for TV in the past and it was all made up as quickly as possible - you get a long list.

[u/neo101b → u/Rubberfootman]

You can find the transaltions here : https://personofinterest.fandom.com/wiki/All_In/Embedded_codes

I found it fun when it first flashed on screen, it's a very geeky show.
I did love the PS3 super computer part too.

[u/TelephoneAshamed775]

It's just to demonstrate the effect of virus.. There is no code

[u/InsideConstruction89]

Take screenshot, put through AI and translate..

[u/miloww02 → u/InsideConstruction89]

the audacity to telling someone to ask an ai in the person of interest subreddit /s