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Yes, you heard it right, we're moving away from patches sent via email.

The fax number you should use from now on is 1-900-555-1212.
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@monsieuricon can I subscribe to it right?
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@hyeyoo We're going to do weekly pay-per-view events if your cable provider supports it.
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@monsieuricon @hyeyoo Can I deliver my patches on punch cards? I can use Fedex to ship a container if you want?

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@monsieuricon I'd rather suggest singing telegrams

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@loke @monsieuricon @hyeyoo

Only if you deliver the data by first using the cards to weave silk cloth.

Cotton tapestries will be rejected.

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Haha, @adrian I think you might enjoy this! Especially since we talked about it yesterday!

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@monsieuricon Messenger pidgeons for redundancy and blackout scenarios.

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@monsieuricon
Strange. I was told the new number would be
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWc3WY3fuZU

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@monsieuricon Well IIRC my ISP has a fax proxy service so works for me.

Also reminds me of this April Fools post, which sadly didn't end up with actual code for the patch reading side: https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/01/git-snail-mail.html
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@monsieuricon @marcan i think this will finally make you happy :) /s
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@monsieuricon please write patches using only ASCII characters that use little ink, my magenta is running out.

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@doctormo @loke @monsieuricon @hyeyoo I prefer the old-skool elegance (and security!) of sequences of knotted ropes.

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@monsieuricon so us morse code telegraphers are left out again. Typical.

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@monsieuricon
Cant wait for support for IP over Avian Carrier!

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@monsieuricon Ah, that explains why the maximum number of columns was not changed from 80 (the old punched card standard) to 96 (the new smaller IBM punched card standard), but to 100 (the number of Elite characters that fit on a 215-mm wide fax roll)...

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@raggi You can use our web relay to submit it. Check out https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/overview.html . Very soon we'll integrate other mechanisms to submit patches, like Github pull request.
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@monsieuricon Oh goodie. We've joined the 20th Century at last...

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