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Manucode@infosec.pub to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

japantoday.com

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

japantoday.com

Manucode@infosec.pub to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago
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Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…

Crossposted from !worldnews@lemmit.online

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    Ok yea, but it’s 6MB, it’s inconsequential with today’s storage densities and a modern system can handle it with ease

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      Removed by mod

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      Not when you have 1000s of files. It adds up.

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      A month ago i had a customer rating about not being able to upload the new Header image ( 250 MB ), while the error message clearly states: max 5 MB file size allowed. I didn’t even know where to start.

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      This is how the world ends

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        I had a student send me the screenshot of a pdf for his homework submission. So, yeah. I guess that’s how it ends.

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          How much battery life did their phone have?

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            No idea. It was a laptop screenshot.

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