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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Proposition: All social media posts should be required to be submitted on IBM (or equivalent) 80 column punched cards. Discuss.

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Jörn Nettingsmeier
@nettings@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren only if we invent a new kind of Unicode where everything that was formerly 7-bit ASCII is now at least 8 bytes somewhere behind linear-a, to avoid cementing cultural bias. Also, Äh! Öh! Üüüh!
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Weasel
@weaselx86@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren

ALL UPPER CASE!

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Analog AI
@Retreival9096@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren No: there are probably too many card punches still available.
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Eka A.
@Eka_FOOF_A@spacey.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren
No printed text line allowed until you have at least two solid years of experience.
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radon
@radon@indieweb.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren does that mean EBCDIC?
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@subm3rge@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren Well at least I’m pretty sure us #GenX ppl would finally get a word in edgewise, and also a chance to use EBCDIC more. Awesome.
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Martin Du4
@martind@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@lauren What about the PDP 11?
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Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@martind Perhaps some dispensation for submissions on paper tape.
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