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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:35:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   Imagine your software develops a bug of the same sort as that OpenOffice bug where you can't print on Tuesday:

   How long does it take you to figure out that the random intermittent failures aren't random at all, and are actually based on the day of the week?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:38:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     (it was actually a bug in gnu file that misidentified postscript files as erlang files if they had "Tue" in the right position, which caused cups to not print them)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:40:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the openoffice bug was reported in july of 2008 and no one figured out the tuesday connection until april of 2009

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:48:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     though I imagine that process took longer than it should have because it was a printing bug.
     of course sometimes printing doesn't work. that's how printers ALWAYS act.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 07:12:24 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • HP van Braam

     @hp hey, it wasn't completely a mistake:
     https://digipres.club/@foone/112798824066210468

   • HP van Braam (hp@mastodon.tmm.cx)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 07:12:25 JST HP van Braam

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     @foone once again showing that computers were, in fact, a mistake! 😄