Friday, 22nd January 2021
Tuesday’s chaos arose after China Railway Shenyang failed to deactivate Flash in time, leading to a complete shutdown of its railroads in Dalian, Liaoning province. Staffers were reportedly unable to view train operation diagrams, formulate train sequencing schedules and arrange shunting plans.
Authorities fixed the issue by installing a pirated version of Flash at 4:30 a.m. the following day.
TIL
Embedding JavaScript in a Jupyter notebook
— I recently found out modern browsers include a JavaScript API for creating public/private keys for cryptography.