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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I haven't seen EBCDIC used anywhere other than the curriculum of my "Fundamentals of Programming" class 25 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was IBM's binary to character transform. DB2 can still use it if you configure it to do so. Or was at least as of the version from 1998 that I had to replace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with it from the aforementioned class, but thank you. I've just never seen it used.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And hopefully you never will