Post #2188299
2025-12-20 18:03 UTC
@catselbow@fosstodon.org @joomy@functional.cafe There was a famous computer competition in the USSR that was thwarted by Soviet customs agents who took "small samples" of the stacks of punched cards during inspection.
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@ghorwood@mastodon.social 2025-12-20 18:52
@spacehobo@teh.entar.net @catselbow@fosstodon.org @joomy@functional.cafe oh. this is better than tape snippets. customs agent who wants to make a better life for his ailing, i dunno, wife, maybe child, sneaks one or two cards at a time hoping to get a big stack that he can sell. does so and, by pure chance, it turns out to be some secret icbm launch code and everyone winds up in the gulag. it's a comedy.