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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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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (1 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 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Markdown was created in 2004 by John Gruber.

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

Hans Gruber is the antagonist in Die Hard

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 7 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Hans what the fuck did I just read?

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

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

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

Monty Python is timeless ;)

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 1 month ago

"LOL", I guess?