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the discord loading screen factoid "in the ancient days discord was a browser-only app" is hilarious to me because in 2025 it didn't stop being a browser-only app they just started shipping the browser

Since the original DOS "Microsoft Editor" is in the news because of the brand new "Microsoft Edit" here's your reminder that the original MS-DOS 5 editor wasn't even a stand-alone program, but rather just QBasic in disguise.
All EDIT.COM did was launch QBASIC.EXE with the /EDCOM parameter (undocumented parameter, although the official /EDITOR does the exact same thing.) That's why EDIT.COM itself is only 413 bytes.

the only vibe coding i care about is trying to code while a vibe up my robot pussy is distracting me

@arielmt the reboot with commodore amie gaul, despite being the better-produced one, was a total flop

@madewokherd like i said, arms race

because it's less than trivial for ai scrapers to change their user agent

@madewokherd i get it but like. then what's the point

this was prompted by a forum post pointing out you can get rid of anubis (which they argue is harmful for getting in the way of javascript-free browsing) by just making your user-agent as wget's

riddle me this: what's stopping AI scrapers from changing their user agent if they already don't respect robots.txt

stupid-ass arms race

life hack: if you're in the uk and you miss canadian ketchup crisps just buy prawn cocktail crisps. they're absolutely the same

I have to ask again.. is there really no active roleplaying community on the Fediverse? No instances dedicated to roleplaying, in the online text sense?

I went looking, but I genuinely can't find any active accounts whatsoever. 😐
#RPing #RP #Roleplay #Roleplaying #MastoRP #FediRP

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