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I mean fair enough, but it made me laugh.

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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Throwback to Microsoft renaming "zip file" to "postcode file" in English.

The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I'm sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, this feels like a courtesy thing. I just didn't expect it.

(And only just now noticed after switching three weeks ago since this was the first time I had to delete anything in all that time.)

That's funny, I hadn't heard that before. Situations like this is why actual humans will always make better translators (overall).

Native readers can almost always tell when something was just run through a translation tool, because translation is about meaning, not just word/phrase replacement. Even LLMs will make weird contextual mistakes because there's no fundamental understanding of meaning.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, the old "packed octet sequence, total compression of data encoding" format. It was invented by the boffins at Bletchley between cracking Enigma, and don't let Phil Katz tell you any different. ~waggles finger~

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've never associated .zip files with mailing addresses, a lot of the time they have a zipper pull tab as if you're zipping up tight clothing around them to make them smaller. Nothing to do with the Zone Improvement Plan.

Amusing fact: There was a tool similar to winzip or winRAR for the classic mac called "Stuffit" which I think is the most superior name.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't think they are, it was just Microsoft screwing things up. I've never heard someone call them postcode archives.

yeah it's an exapmlenof the Scunthorpe problem.