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"The graphical software package used by [Note Printing Australia] has no copy-paste mechanism and no spelling or grammar check. The text was manually typed in and misspelt at this point," according to a report into the error from the printing agency, dated January 11 this year."

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Specialist software for industry can be absurdly shit sometimes. There are seemingly tons of niche software packages used in business that cost thousands per copy and lack even the most rudimentary features normally found in most software.

I don't know about other OS, but in Windows it's absurdly difficult to build an input mechanism that doesn't allow pasting.

You should try using Citrix remote connection software in a business environment :-)

Oh man, I just remembered that day ten years ago when I wanted to kill myself because of Citrix.

Oh the hours I spent on https://www.brianmadden.com/...

For a 3-D modelling course at university we were forced to use software that had no undo mechanism (and only ran on Windows). We very quickly learned to create save files after every single modification, because it was so easy to lose hours of work with a single mistake.

In retrospect I wish I had looked for a way to import files from Blender-3D.

It’s amazing how so many issues that are nominally caused by human error are actually the result of bad design.

Of course, bad design is also caused by human error.

It would be funny if note forgers would use the same software for improved authenticity, re-type the text, and do it correctly - the forged notes could be easily spotted since they use the correct text.

Reminds me of: https://www.gislounge.com/map-traps-intentional-mapping-erro...

Mountweazels and Paper Towns!

"Fictitious Entry" is a fun read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

"Easily" is a bit of an exaggeration - the text is so tiny you wouldn't be able to read it without putting it up to your face and you'd run into the other security features first.

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