Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
  • @cm0002English
    -4•3 days ago

    Although, using floppy disks has the advantage that everyone has to make sure their file sizes are small enough to fit on them. Which makes for much easier handling for those who don’t use floppy disks.

    What? How is that at all relevant in today’s age?

    • @[email protected]English
      20•3 days ago

      The lack of pressure leads to absurd file sizes for silly things.

      A few weeks ago, I needed a vector company logo, so I asked our graphics team for one. The file they sent me was 6MB. While working with it, I noticed it was actually quite clean, so I exported it as an SVG and it came out to 2KB. 1/3000th the size for the exact same graphic.

      I opened their file up in a text editor and found font configs for specific printer models (in a graphic with only filled curves), conditional logic, multiple thumbnails, and other junk.

      • @cm0002English
        -4•3 days ago

        Ok yea, but it’s 6MB, it’s inconsequential with today’s storage densities and a modern system can handle it with ease

        • OgmiosEnglish
          18•3 days ago

          “It’s not that big of a deal” repeated enough times, is exactly how our society got to this state in the first place.

        • kamenLady.English
          6•3 days ago

          A month ago i had a customer rating about not being able to upload the new Header image ( 250 MB ), while the error message clearly states: max 5 MB file size allowed. I didn’t even know where to start.