@eri this sounds like a great way to get in a fight with every local post office that decides to inspect the suspiciously small media mail package

@eri yes you can ship an ebook via media mail. i don't even see a requirement that it be read-only, just not empty: https://pe.usps.com/text/csr/PS-334.htm?csrs=DatePosted_DESC&csrss=true

@whitequark (yes but barely)

@whitequark was rigol even been _around_ when vc++6.0 was current?

@orpach.neocities.org haha yeah there are two buses here that are the same for 90% of their route and on the 10% where they're different the driver frequently goes the wrong way

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@eri I think they just don't want people to actually use Media Mail lmao

@eri CD-ROMs are included but the USPS made a really baffling ruling that video games don't count because they do not "promote educational, cultural, scientific, and informational values". they have afaik never ruled directly on other kinds of software but if it meets the rest of the […]

my local transit agency's GTFS-RT data regularly just says buses are cancelled when they are not. these buses frequently end up being basically empty

at least it only puts it in the header gain so it's easy to patch out

oh actually there's an in-universe explanation . feel bad for jkex now