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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by kazinator on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:47PM (#40206078)
What happened to it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle#Criticism

Postel's Law doesn't pass a software engineering smell test.

The idea that software should guess and repair bad inputs is deeply flawed. It is a security threat and a source of enshittification.

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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by chuckadams on Monday April 29, 2024 @10:02PM (#40206501)
> enshittification

I am so over this word.

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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by kazinator on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @02:13AM (#40207735)
I put a TODO item in my calendar for December 2024 to stop using it. :)
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Re:You can't just assume UTF-8 by ykonstant on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:08AM (#40209652)
The enshittification of enshittification was an inevitability.
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