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A Simple Hacker Riddle

3 points by AdmiralBeotch ↗ HN
Read these words to fulfill your query, And be done with this puzzle, so tired and dreary. Seek a method that encodes a stream, and ends with it's equal, so it seems.

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RiderOfGiraffes
Sorry to appear anal, but in riddles like this, details matter.

Did you mean "it's" or did you mean "its" ??

AdmiralBeotch
I see your objection, an annoying obsession, but, in fact, I mean, the context of possession.

=8P

beobab
Are you talking about a quine? A program which outputs its own source code?
AdmiralBeotch
The answer is here so you may not be toiled, But kept ironically obsure, so for others not spoiled.

VGhlIGFuc3dlciBpcywgaXJvbmljYWxseSwgIkJhc2U2NCIu

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AdmiralBeotch
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