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MortonRobD

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cstross, to random
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This is not a software glitch, it's the Y1C problem: old mainframes were so storage-constrained that they only allocated two decimal digits for passenger age, and adding another digit would mean rewriting software that in some cases has been in use and constantly patched since the late 1950s.
https://press.coop/@BBCNews/112345996328670433

MortonRobD,
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@addressforbots @cstross ex IBM mainframe guy here. EBCDIC has supported diacritics since way before that time. It even supported bidirectional text for Arabic script. If they are US based they'd be using this character set. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Character_Encodings/Code_Tables/EBCDIC/EBCDIC_037

davemark, to tech
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"I deleted keys generated by our TV for 5 straight minutes. 5 Minutes of like 200BPM clicking. I restarted. Everything worked again. I laughed so hard I cried. I felt like I'd solved a murder."

Tech people, THIS IS A GREAT FANTASIC READ!!!

The title is, "DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S"

https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisense-t

MortonRobD,
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@davemark talk about timing. Guess which brand of tv I ordered yesterday. Facepalm. Thanks for this.

cstross, to random
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Looks at murder of aid workers in Gaza

Checks principles

"Axiom: Killing civilians is always wrong. (Doesn't matter why, or who: no exceptions, it's always wrong.)"

Fuck Netanyahu. (The end.)

MortonRobD,
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@cstross Iain Banks “fuck every cause that ended in murder and a child screaming”

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