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The Great Firewall of China has apparently experienced a great data spill. > 500gb of source code, work logs and internal communication records were leaked. Some light reading for the weekend /s

gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mes

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“UTF-8 is a brilliant design”

The first time I learned about UTF-8 encoding, I was fascinated by how well-thought and brilliantly it was designed to represent millions of characters from different languages and scripts, and still be backward compatible with ASCII.

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Designing a system that scales to millions of characters and still be compatible with the old systems that use just 128 characters

osnews.com/story/143326/utf-8-

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