@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[xsk8rat@mastodon.world]

@Edent Probably better stories than the "Adventures of George Wendt" i struggled to invent nightly for my beautiful child.😜

[edent@mastodon.social]

@xsk8rat I'd love to know what your (presumably now grown) child thought of them. Do they have fond memories?

[aslmx@chaos.social]

@clomp @Edent
Came here to comment this. Stopped half way through the first movie and never tried again. Didn't even know there was a second one 🤔

[henryk@chaos.social]

@Edent "We need to make sure that your phone is secure. … No, not like that."

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@neil @Edent things like this make me worried about trying to switch. I have to use about 5 different banking apps and if any of them broke it would be a major issue for me

[br3nda@cloudisland.nz]

@Edent
That train enrages me because it's the only train linking the cities and it's priced like a tourist cruise, not transport.

[matthew@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent
My recent work has been on banking apps, and I’ve long argued that root detection is silly and futile.
I’ll continue to argue that.

[zymurgic@mastodon.online]

@henryk @Edent ah, memories of proving your entire hardware and software stack and human processing was secure before banks would let you process card payments.. PCI DSS audit, where I found a major flaw in the banks (Barclays) own processes and had to call them out on it for sending unencrypted data to an unauthenticated network endpoint. Pretty sure that's changed a bit over the decades since then.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent i voted "one" but then i remembered i noped out of it at the twenty minute mark. i test high for accomodation of "plot makes no sense", but, dear gods…

[edent@mastodon.social]

@Br3nda this country really needs a Shinkansen equivalent.

[milgrim@mas.to]

@Edent congratulations on year 1! I retired early back in March and have been enjoying every minute of it.

[br3nda@cloudisland.nz]

@Edent
It was built by confiscating land from Māori... For an important national resource
But now the trucking and road lobby has killed off railway and left it as a tourist attraction on stolen land.

[kbob@chaos.social]

@Edent I voted zero, but I've actually seen half of the first one.

[sysop408@sfba.social]

@Edent being a keyboard and typewriter lover, I'm amazed that I've never seen anything like this before.

This conjures all sorts of questions! When was the first shift key added to allow for variable casing? Where does a model like this fall in the timeline of typewriter design? Was it just an oddball design or was it in competition with the more conventional designs that survived?

Does that museum answer any of these questions?

[ianrogers@mstdn.social]

@Edent What a gorgeous beast

[edent@mastodon.social]

@sysop408 yup, it is fascinating 😄
There was, sadly, no other information. You can contact them at http://kaurimuseum.com/

[electropict@mastodon.scot]

@sysop408 @Edent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter#Shift_key

See more of these at Typewriter Database:

https://typewriterdatabase.com/Caligraph.New+Century+No+5.47.bmys

[electropict@mastodon.scot]

@sysop408 @Edent

A Master Printer friend of mine who I worked with, after going out of business in about 2003, decided to learn computers, having trained on Linotype but never touched a typewriter. He was amazed by the shift key on a Mac keyboard. Also by the delete/backspace key. They are indeed luxuries. And all luxuries are perilous.

[ketumbra@infosec.exchange]

@Edent but no 0...Apparently having a 5/8 key was more useful? I guess this was related to use of shillings and whatnot rather than expressing prices in decimal.
Or Maybe they reused the O (or the o) 🤷🏼‍♂️

[phl@mastodon.social]

@ketumbra @Edent Note also the lack of 1 key

They were missing on most typewriters (even the more familiar shifted ones), and you'd type a small L (or if you're a bad person, a capital i), and a big o for the one and zero. In Courier they look kinda the same.