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My (admittedly-beloved) 2015 F-150 will reboot Sync if I'm listening to music (usually on Soundcloud) if the song title includes non-ASCII characters.

• xp84 4y ago
  I'm reminded of: ( https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-virus/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-roman-mars-mazda-... ) the Mazda head unit being allergic to Roman Mars.
  • vlachen 4y ago
    The concept of technology being unable to handle some input as an "allergy" for some reason makes me giggle.
  • cpeterso 4y ago
    Or Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation crashing some old laptop hard drives, due to the hard drives' resonant frequency. The manufacturer worked around the problem by adding a custom filter in the audio pipeline that detected and removed the offending frequencies during audio playback. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=107201 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...
• doubled112 4y ago
  My 2011 Ford Focus with Sync would randomly lock up and loop the same 10th of a second of the current track. Like a really old PC if it crashed while playing a sound. Turning the car and back on again to stop the noise got old really fast. All of the radio inputs stopped working when this happened.
  • nubinetwork 4y ago
    Hey, ring buffer... I want you to play this, and I'm going to give you more data, just keep looping the buffer. Oops, I forgot to give you more data... or tell you to stop... >:)
• easywood 4y ago
  Awesome, a real world example of the phonograph-destroying record from the book "Gödel, Escher, Bach" ! What a time to be alive! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach