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Passport for one 'Herman the Cat', Expert Mouser, veteran of the US Coast Guard o7, WW2, 1943 AD (media.piefed.social)
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[–] MercuryGenisus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Now that everything is digital and so rigidly formatted and kept in databases we really lost the ability to have fun in a lot of ways.

But I would love to see the support ticket for the central passport database that reads "someone have a cat a passport and now all our systems are offline because no one ever accounted for this while we were writing the things."

It reminds me of the time I had to spend a week updating database tables to utf8 after someone started putting emojis into their log messages...