A Chinese railway depot recently lost access to its local dispatching system after U.S.-based software company Adobe stopped supporting the Flash Player program. The local railway system was paralyzed as a result. The depot’s IT workers chronicled their attempt to fix the technical issue on Chinese social media, written in a war diary style. The post went viral after tech-savvy netizens noticed that the IT workers solved the glitch by installing an older version of Flash from a pirated operating system. The post has since been deleted. Netizens were also amused that the railway seemingly did not realize that Adobe would stop supporting Flash. The company announced in 2017 that it would stop supporting the program by the end of 2020, due to Flash being prone to hacking and malware attacks. The company recommended that users uninstall Flash Player before the end of 2020, and said it would suspend service …