• kevindqc@lemmy.world
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    How can they get anything done? 1.44MB is very little nowadays. Imagine having to split up a word document into dozens of floppy disks.

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      4 months ago

      What would they use Word for? This is about submitting data in their own standard formats in tiny files.

      The real crime is that they’re not switching to online. Using optical discs is going to be even more ridiculous for those tiny files.

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        4 months ago

        Ah that makes more sense, the article didn’t mention what was stored on them unless I missed it

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        The game is security isn’t it? No online means you must have physical access to some systems

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          4 months ago

          Sure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don’t understand how they managed for so long.

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            4 months ago

            Do we know what the scale was? I would assume it’s only for the systems that are required to be air gapped.

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      4 months ago

      I’ve got .rar file parts of FRIENDS episodes strewn across thousands of floppies, it’s a way to give your life meaning during the end times

  • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    lol Japan invents the three major optical disc storage mediums that became ubiquitous and their government says fuck that and just keeps on using floppy disks