Post AqBA2TRWEYESDjMcam by PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AqA5PNpMaGWuXIf5HM by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T04:19:16Z
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EU train tickets use SIX BIT ascii? wow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N17GQJBIaiU
(DIR) Post #AqA5whhfhrxTjix77g by PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T04:25:17Z
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@foone is that a lot or a little
(DIR) Post #AqA6LoWrSxSA94rxwG by bennyfactor@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T04:29:45Z
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@foone ECMA-1?
(DIR) Post #AqA7EDkzsvwE1gQNlI by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T04:39:42Z
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@PavelASamsonov it's a little! ASCII is famously a 7-bit encoding, even if it's usually represented as 8-bit.
(DIR) Post #AqA8ChBBcdTeeYVjZg by randylea@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T04:50:33Z
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@foone Around 1981, I programmed a computer that had a mag-tape based operating system (TOS) that used a basic-like language and was all caps. I don't know if it was standard, but we called it TRASCII for Truncated ASCII. You could fit 4 chars in a 24-bit word. That was a seriously limited machine then, I can't imagine anyone doing that these days.
(DIR) Post #AqA90NT5BNsHzyZW52 by trochee@dair-community.social
2025-01-17T04:59:34Z
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@foone @PavelASamsonov If you use only codepoints 0 to 2⁶–1 you still get all the uppercase (English) alphabet
(DIR) Post #AqA9XErIDIaeqwZ77g by chocobo13@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T05:05:30Z
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@fooneAnd laypeople might think "oh, seven is less than eight, so it's a bit smaller (heh)", but it's more akin to moving a decimal point left one (you can only have a number half as large)@PavelASamsonov
(DIR) Post #AqAH85hluNwarDdDmq by bytex64@awesome.garden
2025-01-17T06:30:28Z
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@foone It’s only ASCII if it comes from the 7-bit region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling Baudot.
(DIR) Post #AqAShiAryHaTnbQhBA by th@social.v.st
2025-01-17T08:40:12Z
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@foone did you know that QR codes have a 5.5 bit alphanumeric option? A-Z (uppercase), 0-9, and a few punctuation marks.
(DIR) Post #AqAT5P1QpXtNLjJOuu by mctwist@social.accum.se
2025-01-17T08:44:35Z
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@foone I did this for a project for Nintento DS. They had only 512 bytes eeprom for persistent data storage, and we wanted to store the players name, skill levels and several hundreds of flags, for three save slots, including hash validation. The names were therefore stored as 6-bit ASCII to take up less space. For 9 bytes it gave us 12 characters per player to use. Saving 9 bytes for that single purpose, no bits wasted.
(DIR) Post #AqAaBIwV2vgFuWlZoG by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T10:04:08Z
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@th eww
(DIR) Post #AqAccRk6dSqovm2V0q by foone@digipres.club
2025-01-17T10:31:21Z
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@q @cinebox nifty.Although now that I see "GenderType" in there I'm worried about how badly specced THAT is gonna be.(also, hi! great talk)
(DIR) Post #AqBA2TRWEYESDjMcam by PavelASamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-01-17T16:45:46Z
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@foone damn, is nothing sacred to the austerity people
(DIR) Post #AqBSFetqkM16h23Hw8 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2025-01-17T20:10:22Z
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@bytex64 @foone FIELDATA FTW! We have more control codes than you! And at least three spaces! And collateable alphabet!