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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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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 50 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

Yeah, maybe that's not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 months ago (9 children)

And another great thing about Markdown: if the system doesn't "support" it, it's still totally readable. The formatting doesn't get in the way of readability.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

While true, doesn't have anything to do with my comment?

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 2 months 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

[–] DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 2 months ago

"LOL", I guess?

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