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browsers are fossils now. instead of being hypermedia browsers with ever improving features for how you can interact with and utilize that hypermedia, they're vehicles for web apps that define and constrain behavior

i hate it

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Boy it's hard to get around the modern internet without anything like a scroll wheel. Everything's designed around just being a quick swipe. Scroll bars are too narrow to grab, arrow keys are often interpreted as "next/prev item", pgup/pgdn go...well, an entire page at once.

welcome to the future:
where even your CAD program is actually chrome

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CPU emulation begins now.
hello, world
thread 'main' panicked at 'Attempted null-page access at 0x0 (0x4 bytes)', src/mem.rs:287:9

YES

YESSSSSSSS

I AM BECOME GOD

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abortion is a medical need that needs to be accessible to all pregnant people, including trans people, intersex people, and/or children. all 3 of those groups have special access needs when seeking reproductive care that should not be erased.

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@RecursiveElegance Sites covered by #Cloudflare captcha can also block non-web clients like #RSS readers, as I discovered with Medium (I was trying to bypass its interface nagging & nonsense, so I figured I'd check its support for #webfeeds).

RSS readers do not typically implement interactive web display, so even if they had a #Javascript interpreter, it is impossible to answer the captcha query. This breaks the endpoint entirely.

"Is this a yeag?"

I give you a bunlith meme in our trying times.

Are you going to boost this poll for a larger sample size?

never mind the edgelords, just once I want to hear what the princess of vertices has to say

Incidentally, this is one of the central points of the Go article that keeps getting posted to HN and causing a flamewar each and every time from
@fasterthanlime; Go reduces complexity and makes things "simple" by just making it your/someone else's problem.

And it's absolutely not any better in terms of workability or final product.

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Meet Om-Nom the planet eater! He's carrot cake, spice buttercream, and mostly covered in modeling chocolate. The planets are lemon rice krispies treats covered in modeling chocolate.

#food

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