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		YesThatTom2 on Feb 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck ... Mazda’s entertainment system has had interesting bugs before. Like… it used to crash if your song title accidentally looks like a printf statement https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm

CSSer on Feb 9, 2022 [–]

It's interesting because this is all over this thread, but it's not actually a string interpolation issue. It's an issue with percent encoding[0]. They talk about it likely being an interpolation issue at first but end up ruling it out.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-2.1

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