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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   I last developed for windows in the late 90s. I came back around 2017*, expecting the same nice experience I had with VB3 to 6. What a punch in the face it was... I honestly cannot fathom anyone developing natively for windows (or even OSX)
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   oh I mean slow in terms of adoption and public interest. my bad. i expressed awfully. But you are right on the reason it "failed". People expected web++, with a "killer app", whatever that means. Imagination is dead.
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   not because you knew how much someone worked out. But because it had GPS.
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   Neat. How does the archive.org integration works? Does it just POST the url to them for them to fetch? Or is there any integration/trust to store what you already fetched on the client directly on their archives?
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   What do you mean? It is alive and "well". Just extremely slow now that interest waned.
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   > The AI companies won't just scrape IA once, they're keeping come back to the same pages and scraping them over and over. Even if nothing has changed. Maybe they vibecoded the crawlers. I wish I were joking.
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   by iririririr 8mo ago

   This is new to me, so I did a quick search for a few examples of such documents. The very first result was a 404 https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/reports/ The jokes write themselves.