because i’d previously been scraping by hand and i’ve never heard of that tool before right now. i regret nothing; i learned a ton. i’m curious how they got around the cloudflare captcha issue.

i wrote a fairly complex script in perl for scraping fanfiction off the internet, extracting data from it, and formatting that data into beautifully and consistently formatted epubs to read on my ereader.

probably most of them do. epubs are mostly html after all.

what makes their office software so much better than, say, libreoffice? i don’t work an office job, and haven’t had the misfortune of running windows since i dropped windows 7, but when i did switch, the programs seemed basically the same. office software seemed like a solved problem by then. what new features has microsoft added and convinced people they need that foss options don’t have?

makes me think of the loopholes christian teenagers come up with to claim they’re totally not having premarital sex.

what’s the association of noodles?

i don’t think we ought to be implying that colonization is cool.

maybe something derived from dekotora? it has most of the same associations as the term we’re looking to replace while not having racist or pejorative origins. deko?

that all makes sense to me. how would you want it to work?

i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.

unless you buy a game that later adds denuvo, of course

i read the whole article and still have no idea what this has to do with furries.

couldn’t be that long. i was on the site a couple days ago.

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

i like my laptop cause i already have it, and have gotten to know it quite well over the past 16 years, but i wouldn’t recommend it. it would be nice to have more than 4gb of memory these days, cause i can’t have too many tabs open on firefox without it bogging down.

just a historical factoid that a lot of people don’t realize: the luddites weren’t anti technology without reason. they were apprehensive about new technology that threatened their livelihoods, technology that threatened them with starvation and destitution in the pursuit of profit. i think the comparison with opposition to AI is pretty apt, in many cases, honestly.

would a notification work? notify-send seems like it could fit the bill.

my first time installing linux was ubuntu, because it was what i’d seen a friend using. i meant to install it to dual boot with windows, but instead ended up wiping everything from the family PC, which was very distressing, and my dad quickly reinstalled windows. this was back around '06 i think.
in '08, i first installed linux on my own system and actually got to use it. i’m not sure what i installed first, cause i did a fair bit of distrohopping, but i settled on ubuntu mate for a while.

prediction: by 2032, there will be dedicated online communities devoted to folks with a fetish for fucked up AI generated hands.

i don’t know a single thing about whatever these things your talking about are, but i just want to say, you’re the first person i’ve ever seen suggest that edge isn’t a joke.