Sadly it is not just Medium, but a bunch of other Windows apps too. For example, in Active Presenter, typing one of the letters (I think it is Ó) stops screen recording, which makes the program unusable in many situations - I cannot record myself typing anything in Polish. Other apps similarly assign shortcuts to Alt + Ctrl + letter, somehow overriding the keyboard layout driver.
They sort of did this with BASIC 4.0 and later for Commodores. We had CATALOG for listing files, SCRATCH for deleting them, HEADER for formatting and so forth. These were standard BASIC commands, and could be used in programs as well as directly.
But how would you place this Z8000 assembly in the memory to be executed? Most likely via some script that used the terminal too, so simply calling the routines via the terminal was easier, though slower (IIRC formatting the drive took over 2 hours).
It's a TSOP48 package, I guess you could clamp it but not that easily. The bigger problem I see is that if you try to program it in-system, you need to apply power to it, and since the power rail is shared with the CPU, the CPU will wake up and try to read the chip, messing with the programming.
The ruler is not "avoiding" elections due to war, he is prohibited by the constitution to hold them during wartime (not to mention the feasibility of letting the inhabitants of occupied regions to exercise their voting rights). So it is not a dictatorship in any sense.
It's a myth. Amstrad computers were already using 3 inch drives in 1984, way before 3.5 inch ones became popular. The drives were chosen due to their similarity to 5.25 drives, so that existing controller chips could be reused. Due to the huge volume of ordered drives, Amstrad did get huge discounts on them, but that had nothing to with the drives becoming obsolete.
You just need to specify a secondary address of "1" when loading the file, so that it loads into the memory area specified in the header instead of the default location.
This was rarely used with the tape though, but rather with autoloader programs on the disk - there would be a specially crafted program that loaded itself info the system stack or variable area and overwrote some vectors, so that it would be automatically run without the need to type RUN:
LOAD "*", 8, 1 : REM 8 is the disk drive and 1 is the secondary address
I consider this mostly a party trick, but it was cool when we were kids ;)
Living in Europe, I don't give a damn about US sanctions. However, I block traffic from Iran on all my servers for the simple reason that almost all attacks on my website (and if you run a semi-popular website, you get attacked on a daily basis) come from Iran, Russia or China.
I am very sorry that this kind of action affects you personally, as I am sure you have nothing to do with these attacks. However, filtering out Iranian, Russian and Chinese traffic in its entirety is the only way to protect my server from the majority of DoS and hacking attempts.