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We have this at my work, need to totally gut the main product offering in order to maintain long term viability but nobody will do it because it's the cash cow even though it's slowly dying.
Re:A new method to validate URLs in JavaScript (2023 edition) on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:17PM (#38504500)
super.hacker is a valid url.

Url validity isn't dictated by ICANN.

Re:XCurl on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:59AM (#38473599)
As far as triple E goes this embrace seems pretty limp.
Re:XCurl on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:58AM (#38473576)
Yea, but we're talking about Microsoft here. Why would you expect anything else?

I get the feeling people think MS is different now it has embraced open source.

Re:Dependencies Belong in Version Control on Sunday November 26, 2023 @05:18PM (#38425605)
This is a strawman. You're extending their argument to an extreme so it sounds silly when it's not what has been proposed.

The argument is clearly to keep direct dependencies required for building in source control so that if you have a working build system, you can build the software indefinitely and independently from the internet.

Build systems and operating systems don't disappear overnight. Leftpad does.