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• New note by bobjonkman 4 January 2022
  According The Register's forum, this is the patch: "The current fix: Represent 2022-01-02 as 2021-12-33."https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2022/01/03/exchange_servery2k22_flaw/#c_4389861
• Favorite 4 January 2022
  bobjonkman favorited something by lxo: what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99 think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most […]
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by lxo 4 January 2022
  RT @lxo what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99 think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of […]
• New note by bobjonkman 3 January 2022
  From what I can tell, they were using the decimal digits of the 32-bit number as a sort of BCD, with the base10 digits representing portions of the date. The example used is "the new date value of 2,201,010,001 is over the max value of 'long' int32 being 2,147,483,647". So, YY MMDDHHMM ? What an […]
• New note by bobjonkman 17 December 2021
  Some days I'm glad my instance of #GNUsocial doesn't support #ActivityPub and isolates me from the idiocy on Mastodon of which I already get plenty from #Birdsite.
• New note by bobjonkman 8 December 2021
  And, of course, Wikipedia knows everything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series#Adaptations #Foundation
• New note by bobjonkman 8 December 2021
  Happily, it's been about 50 years since I read the first three novels, and about 20 years since I started on the sequels (which never did finish, got about halfway through the third sequel book). So my foggy memories of the storyline in the original trilogy shouldn't detract from the TV series. I recall there […]
• Favorite 8 December 2021
  bobjonkman favorited something by clacke: @Bob Jonkman It is highly character-driven.It uses key characters, the Empire, the exile, Terminus, Psychohistory, two kingdoms instead of the Four Kingdoms and some echoes of half of the first book and fainter echoes from other parts of the series, while the main story maps roughly to half the first […]
• bobjonkman repeated a notice by clacke 8 December 2021
  RT @clacke @Bob Jonkman It is highly character-driven. It uses key characters, the Empire, the exile, Terminus, Psychohistory, two kingdoms instead of the Four Kingdoms and some echoes of half of the first book and fainter echoes from other parts of the series, while the main story maps roughly to half the first book. It […]
• New note by bobjonkman 7 December 2021
  Don't get me wrong, I think Foundation is one of the greatest SF stories ever written. And I hadn't heard there was a series, must find out when and where it airs... !SciFi @clacke