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lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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Pike Matchbox! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mZBa3sqTrI Very interesting talk about plain text and encodings. I knew a bunch but alo learnt quite a lot of stuff. Highly recommended.
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse I remember watching this one too not long ago. What did you learn from this talk? 🤔
prologic
twtxt.net
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@lyse I remember watching this one too not long ago. What did you learn from this talk? 🤔
lyse
lyse.isobeef.org
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@prologic Let me think. Three things come to mind. I wasn't aware of all the history of ASCII and the exact reasons why some symbols are placed where they are. Pretty genious. Also the French Russian pen friend parcel is a cool story I never ran across.

Although there are a bunch of Ukrainian license plates around here, I never wondered why I actually could read all of them without issues. Nice trick to just limit the Cyrillic script to the ones that look like Latin letters.

Also the bad switch dropping a byte every now and then and this way producing Chinese characters was really fun. Good to know, it would have never occurred to me. Not in a hundred years.

I'm sure there are many more things I learned and already forgot again. :-)