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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)

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Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hans was the name of one of the German characters in my elementary summer camp fire theater show in which the Americas would call out random German names to get them to stand and shoot them in a World War Two reenactment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is actually a Monty Python sketch that originally plays in the first world war.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Glad it could be revived 100 years later :) didn’t know they were playing Monthy Python that early

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)