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.

capitalism is the system whereby greed is raised above all other human impulses though. in most other systems, sure, people can be greedy, but they aren’t rewarded for it, and people who aren’t naturally greedy don’t get pushed and trained to be greedy as the highest aspiration.

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?

thanks for the heads up and the link!

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?

yes? i don’t understand your apparent incredulity here.

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

i’m sorry, but, sploot?

they’re presenting the candidates differently, sure, but i honestly don’t know who you think this is favouring.

i can’t believe i just watched that whole thing. it was spellbinding, start to finish.

not very much. honestly, only once or twice, for a laugh, which is probably still more than most folks lol

what you wrote sounds completely insane to me. sure i don’t use a mouse on my phone very much, but no way would i ever prefer a trackpad to a mouse for a desktop or laptop. and tons of people still carry a mouse to use with their laptops, based on my observations. i really think you may be an outlier here.

trickle down boopenom… fuck everyone already made the same joke.

no, he’a dead. throat cancer.

Al Capone