My Y2K snow globe still works! Will live on to see the Y2K38 problem?
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:05:41 JST Thomas 🔭✨ -
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:14:32 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @mivox you can get these on eBay, they made a lot of them
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mivox :ri: (mivox@mivox.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 06:14:34 JST mivox :ri: @thomasfuchs I am incredibly envious. That would look so good sitting next to my Stonehenge snowglobe. 😂
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Paul Bartlett (pdbartlett@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:11:32 JST Paul Bartlett @thomasfuchs So is Y2K38 "short" for 2038 ;)
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 09:11:32 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @pdbartlett it refers specifically to the bug possibly occuring in 2038 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:29:30 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @ADisorderlyFashion Y2K was 24 years ago, so we’re 2/3rds there in a way
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ADisorderlyFashion (adisorderlyfashion@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 10:29:31 JST ADisorderlyFashion @thomasfuchs only 14 more years to go
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 12:46:12 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @ktowngirl millions of people worked for months to years to prevent bad things from happening
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ktown.girl (ktowngirl@penfount.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Mar-2024 12:46:13 JST ktown.girl @thomasfuchs I remember going to a New Year countdown party gleefully waiting for the electricity to be wiped out. We thought it was a bit of a let down when the whole Y2K hysteria turned out to be a big, fat nothingburger. 🤡
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Thomas 🔭✨ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 00:02:12 JST Thomas 🔭✨ @pdbartlett I mean I agree on dub dub dub, but "Y2K38" isn't longer than "Year 2038 Problem"
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Paul Bartlett (pdbartlett@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 00:02:13 JST Paul Bartlett @thomasfuchs Yeah, I'm aware of the issue (but thanks for the handy link!) it just always makes me chuckle when abbreviating makes things longer, the most famous example being "www" naturally having more syllables than "world wide web", which prompted the "dub dub dub" pronunciation.
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