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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago

I say ass key

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

ASCII a stupid question

if you’re ISO 8859-1

a stupid ANSI

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.

Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.

I like you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

One can find little quips like this in Usenet archives:

Donkey Button == Ass Key == ASCII

https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=8199&group=alt.folklore.computers#8199

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even in japanese it's like asukii

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Someone once told me that JWT is pronounced "jot", so I do. People call me a lunatic for it, but I still do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's missing an O sound, that's why you're a psycho

Please don't kill anyone whose net worth is <= 100m

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Maybe he's Welsh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

For me it will always be the James Web(b) Token.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm always discombobulated by JWT because I keep thinking it's some kind of Java web technology.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

jwit when I am in a good mood, jwat when I am not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Jowt Jawt Juwt Jiwt Jewt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Jot. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519#section-1

The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word "jot".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

wasnt it jason

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

i pronunce iy AS CEE (c as in the first on ein the word "cicada") and EE SEH KAY (a as in bat, the "seh" part the e is like in net (thats why i put the h))

idk thats just how we pronounce it in spain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (11 children)

This must be the guy who pronounces it Jif

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

gaikokujin AMIRITE

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.

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