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		taneliv on July 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on ... Could be one of the sibling encodings, like base85 or uuencoded, perhaps? From afar they could look sufficiently similar to base64 that OP got them mixed up?

justsomehnguy on July 27, 2023 [–]

There are some encodings with @, but the problem is why it would trigger notification in

  aslkdjfhkj@tanelivasdklfjhasdfasdfasd

or in, the best case:

  faskjdhgfkajshdgfasldfhaksdjf@taneliv

In both cases there are something before @ and it's not \s or ^

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