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.

i love this idea so much, but yeah, unless they had a way to know other worlds exist, they probably wouldn’t go looking. i think there’s a bit in the hitchhikers trilogy involving aliens from a world in a dark nebula who never saw a star and so never conceived of space travel (until they did, and decided they had to ‘correct’ the problem).

oh, interesting. i guess i didn’t realize, cause i always sort by new.

isn’t this how pinned posts are already used basically?

hexbear is fun and all, but i’d rather just visit. too many other places defederate from ya’ll, for reasons which are quite beyond my ken.

and happy birfday! 🎉

that sounds interesting, though i can’t seem to find where to see their blocklist

definitely not what i’m looking for, but thanks for the suggestion

if you’re prone to overstressing about it, remember, you’re just having a conversation.

i’m going to bed. good night!

if you have a favorite language that isn’t on this, you’re a super nerd.

not anymore, they don’t. they were all neutered over the last couple centuries.

see, i’ve always felt that kansas is just about the most midwest there is

honestly, i’ve never seen or heard a single coherent definition of what we even mean by ‘free will’. until the question makes sense, i can’t really answer it, and don’t see any point in discussing it.

anyways, who here believes in blabblesnork? that is a word that refers to something, i promise, but no, i won’t tell you what it means.

trains. i know it isn’t particularly new technology, but i am still excited about it.

that’s neither authority nor authoritarianism. you’re conflating multiple different meanings so you can shift the goalposts on the sly. a doctor can give you advice, and if you’re wise, you’ll heed it out of respect for her hard-earned expertise, but she doesn’t have authority. she isn’t empowered to force you to do anything. even being involuntarily committed is generally something done by courts, not doctors; the doctors are merely required to carry out the courts orders.

from what i hear about what facebook is like these days, maybe craigslist.

i can’t think of any reason it would.

if it makes you feel better, i thought the same thing

this is great and all, but where the heck is that asterisk footnote meant to link to?