Me!
A 5-day, 40 hour work week “standard”
Somebody saying “bless you” to someone else who sneezes
The president
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There’s a screenshot on the Wikipedia page.
Civilization started somewhere around 12 thousand years ago
Japanese here, it is still crazy people need to bring a big wooden stemp around to sign government documents and contracts. and bringing physical documents around in a suitcase.
A wooden stamp or is stemp something I’m unaware of?
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Oxford University started sometime around the year 1100.
Outside.
Cnidarians. (The sort of animals that includes jellyfish and sea anenomes and coral and such). Theyre so old that the first known predatory animal as far as I’m aware was one of them, and some of them still resemble those ancient versions to a significant degree. Even tho every time theres a mass extinction corals seem to be some of the first things to go, and jellyfish tend to be slow, stupid and not very good at controlling where they go, it somehow works out for them.
Coffee grinder. The pure mechanical one: a wooden box with a stylish crank on top.
I love those! My mom still uses the one that her mother used. It’s close to 100 years old now.
I have a more modern one, it’s an aluminum cylinder with the crank on top. Still a nice morning ritual, and much easier to hold.
The baths on the Titanic still hold water today
Incredible
Cobol on old systems that are too ancient to touch but are generally fine as long as you don’t touch them.
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David Attenborough, and I hope he’s around for as long as he wants to be.
It’s his hundredth birthday in 2 days!
Religion. And it all needs to go.
Polytheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are nice enough. (I mean, monotheistic religions that don’t try to take over the world are also fine, but I personally prefer “our gods are our gods. you have your own gods? cool!” to “there is ONLY our god. Your gods are FALSE.”.)
– Frost
Amen to that.
Fax machines.
Needed it just yesterday.
The amount of “modern” companies I had to fax shit too when my dad died was infuriating! Hyundai, Target, etc etc etc. Email is a thing dumb ass companies! Fuck me.
Many government departments and private companies consider faxed documents as a duplicated “original”, instead of a copy. Because that totally makes sense.
IT MEANS FASCIMILE GOD DAMNIT
Totally… 🤦
I can’t exactly recommend the service which can be a bit annoying but clicksend allows you to send faxes and actually letters for pretty cheap. the letter thing is pretty nice when something demands a physical one. you upload a pdf and it gets printed and mailed out. fax works same way. fax is way cheaper obviously.
Why would someone need that instead of just printing it and mailing it themselves?
just faster. you have to have a printer and paper for it and envelopes and stamps. with the service you just upload the pdf and put in the address and hit send. I mean I think most could see how it can be useful. Bit cheaper to print and fold and seal and stamp and drop in the box but with as unoften as I need to send a physical letter I like it.
Faxes are common in healthcare facilities and hospitals. I would imagine that they’re safer when it comes to sensitive data.
They are analog modems on a telephone line. There is no encryption at all, because they still need to be compatible with fax machines from the 1970s.
There was also an exploit where someone sent a manipulated image via fax, which would exploit an old bug in a jpg library that is used in the software stack, so you can run your own code.
Not really safer, they just work with the existing infrastructure. Personally, I think there’s still a place for fax, it’s essentially a convenient way to scan and transmit, and these days you can get them to your email or phone (not in healthcare because that’s not HIPAA compliant). Sure, not anybody’s first choice, but I think it’s still valid.
Fax may outlast landline telephony.
It already has. Vast majority of companies still handling fax are using VoIP fax modems with digital receivers that turn it into a PDF. I haven’t seen a functioning copper landline probably since 2015…
Did you know that it would have been possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai?
They still have some uses (Invidious: mirror selection or Nadeko).
Also maddening and frustratingly!
