• 📛Maven
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    9 months ago

    Like, the first paragraph explains.

    Until last week there were about 1,900 official governmental application procedures that stipulated businesses must submit floppies or CD-ROMs (specifically) containing supplementary data.

    Not “the government had to accept them”, but “businesses were required to submit them”.

    It’s not a hypothetical problem, there was even news a few years ago about how businesses were complaining they had to send in a dozen+ disks at a time because of file formats.

    The laws were written at the dawn of the digital age, in the 70s and 80s, stipulating specific storage media, and just never got updated because the government didn’t view it as a problem.

    • @Sagifurius@lemm.ee
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      -69 months ago

      Yeah so I read the whole article and it’s all phrased like it wants to convince you of that.

      • 📛Maven
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        59 months ago

        You’re welcome to do your own research, then. Or just make a call based off your read of their vibes, doesn’t matter to me.