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The word for gibberish caused by Unicode transcoding problems is 𝒎𝒐𝒋𝒊𝒃𝒂𝒌𝒆 – 文字化け. But I don’t think there’s a word for what you get when you touch-type with your hand in the wrong place, so I’m going to use what “filename” just turned into: 𝒇𝒖𝒌𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒆 – フケ羽.

@mfraz74 @alexa99 There is terminal brokenness and no way to get rid of it! App fix required.

@mfraz74 @alexa99 That explains why TuneIn plays BBC Africa, but not: 1. Why TuneIn muscles in before BBC Sounds 💪 2. Why the Alexa app says I don't have TuneIn installed 😵‍💫 3. Why the app lists BBC News twice 🤒 4. Why the 1st of them displays this... 😲 5. Why you can't remove such a skill! 😔

@Alexa99 Similar: When I ask "Play BBC Radio 3" the BBC Sounds skill is ignored and TuneIn plays BBC Africa as packer87 reports... BUT your app says I don't have TuneIn installed! Instead it shows TWO BBC skills, but 1st displays this & can't be disabled: Bad skill identifier?

@Jim_Cornelius My Dad.

I just found an unopened jar of horseradish sauce in the cupboard that was a year out of date, and an unopened jar of Bramley apple sauce that was 4 years out of date. - What’s the oldest thing you’ve found in the cupboard?

What I’ve never understood from Tesla’s taxi plans… If they’re so profitable for the operator, why would they even bother selling them for $30k? Surely they’d just run their own fleet in every city and keep the profits?

Sometimes it just takes about 40 hours.

@theblastedheath So many fantastic details! Superb.

What?! Stupid brain.

Hi, #PortfolioDay2024 I'm an artist and illustrator working across multiple media, what am I doing with my life? I don't know, but maybe you want me to do something?

@speterdavis The word 'dial' has shifted - when was the last time you used a dial after hearing the dial tone? 'Switchboard' too. Even 'operator' - what are they operating these days?!

Just occurred to me that "speed dial" is as obsolete a reference as "hanging up" the phone

@Arx1982 I have you beaten by 17 years, but well done!

@nemo20000 Not drunk any alcohol whatsoever for six months and counting.

I do not want to want what I have not got.

@Arx1982 Pure alcohol doesn't count

@nemo20000 Just finished my drink, so guessing no.

I once got an entire data bus the wrong way around on a prototype. Worked around that in software, but then the production board had to be made the same. The tracks were so neat. 😭

Mind you in terms of precedent, Paint/Draw etc get DataLoadAck wrong (to this day) despite the documentation being correct, so what chance did they ever have with RAM Transfer and DataSaved. I’m not sure what to think. One could certainly propose treating 6 & 7 as normal DTPs.

But though one can plausibly argue that DataSaved was misdocumented when it was added years after the rest of the DTP, the RAM Transfer messages were there right from the start (just about). So that’s a lot harder to argue.

I have just had a shocking RISC OS API thought regarding the Data Transfer Protocol.