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LisPi

@danirabbit @SwiftOnSecurity Practically no nation besides Russia bothers, though I'm not sure it's all that dramatic of a loss.

Its purpose - fast writing - is rarely done by hand now and even then it wasn't anywhere near as fast as shorthand (also known as stenography) even in its day of prime.

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LisPi

@danirabbit Ah I see.

It's not quite on the same level, mostly because no actual capacity was lost (and books have been in print-type for so long that the notion of cursive books is practically a curiosity now), while for those systems they still very much do use those mechanisms and their obscuring does hinder the users' control and ownership of their computing.

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