MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

Post by tenebrisalietum » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:11 PM UTC

mmis1000 wrote: post #167

mschuster91 wrote: post #117

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Which is why its usage has declined ever more and more thanks to Discord, which is a pain in itself. Freenode's collapse in particular pushed a lot of people to just say "fuck it" to IRC in general.

I think it is already killed by telegram even before discord emerges. The only thing you can't do on other IM other than IRC is having a really big chatroom that contains thousands of people. But it is no longer the case after telegram. BTW, i think an irc bot is a good target if you are starting to learn writing a network program. The protocol is really simple(don't need complex xml parser...etc) yet requires all te…

Post by saalweachter » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:14 PM UTC

EspressoGPT wrote: post #186

kentonv wrote: post #170

Circa 1998 I was a teenage Linux zealot who would attend LAN parties carrying a Linux box. It actually worked -- at the time, WINE practically existed to support Starcraft, Quake 2 could run natively, and that covered like 95% of what people were playing. One time I thought it would be funny to run a shell script that looped through every Windows share on the network and tried to open `CON/CON` on it, resulting in a…

> Circa 1998 I was a teenage Linux zealot who would attend LAN parties carrying a Linux box. Arch, I suppose.

Post by matheusmoreira » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:15 PM UTC

BasedAnon wrote: post #40

thefz wrote: post #33

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> essentially leaking the existence of something terrible inside It's just a restriction imposed on SharePoint folder names bubbling up. Nothing fancy.

i was going to write a bunch of suggestions for solving the problem but then i remembered i hate microsoft

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:16 PM UTC

veave wrote: post #181

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #169

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Oops, good point. I think I'm going to leave it as-is on account of not knowing of any actual emoji that HN allows, but yes that is technically incorrect on my part.

I think the confusion comes from the fact that some platforms render it as a drawing as if it was an emoji. I never understood why...

Post by bombcar » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 6:23 PM UTC

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This is a classic joke, but settling on a common gauge was really difficult, it was not just copying some old Roman standard. There were even riots when different railways started to standardize because common rail gauge meant you can move through the town without engaging with the local economy, see Erie gauge war. Russia still has a wider gauge than Europe and Australia has 3 different ones.

I've come across an apocryphal tale in the U.S. west describing why certain towns and cities have main streets that are the width required to fully turn a wagon pulled by x number of horses. Likewise, in the Canadian House Of Parliament, the width between the Prime Minister's desk and that of the Leader Of The Opposition is said to be that of two swords raised, tip to tip, based on the British House Of Commons tradit…