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I wonder about if we could have moved forward as society a touch faster if Unix wasn't "all byte streams", and had a touch of metadata We would've "moved forwa
by userbinator 2y ago
I wonder about if we could have moved forward as society a touch faster if Unix wasn't "all byte streams", and had a touch of metadata
We would've "moved forward" faster into authoritarian proprietary walled-garden dystopia, yes.
- rtpg 2y agoI mean I'm just saying labeling text files with their encoding at the front would have been nice for decade or two where text readme files would be routinely garbled if you were in Europe or Asia and using machines that weren't configured properly