Remember that there is a lot of anti-Wikipedia propaganda going around these days. Most "outrage" against Wikipedia is created and pushed artificially.

To be fair, out of all non-federated platforms, Wikipedia is the one that needs federation the least.

Using the period as a decimal separator rather than the comma

The unicode "three dots" character is making me irrationally angry. In the terminal, just use three dots!

This is not the price to access a paper. This is the price to publish one paper.

Speak for yourself, beginner

Linux: Of course you can use these syscalls designed in the 70s. Windows: Compatibility with what? No, you must use these newly-designed functions that exist only on windows. It's for your own protection.

Tell me again how proprietary software gives a shit about compatibility.

You're goddamn right

Gemeinschaft, die ständig mit Absicht Sätze falsch übersetzt beschwert sich über Webseite, die ausversehen Sätze falsch übersetzt

It really depends on the country. France and Belgium, as you wrote. Germany, they expect a tip and look at you angry if you don't. Italy, they add a service charge at the end that is nowhete advertised. Turkey, they invent a random price at the end, complaints only taken if you're local. (I'm slightly exaggerating)

There are many decades between use of this font and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. This post is a typographical disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/... is the most neutral source of news I know. I read it every day.

I rate this fork 18/10

So badass that google puts all words in uppercase

If ^L is invisible in your editor, you're using a bad editor.

Not saying page feeds are useful, but you can't complain that you don't see them.

To be fair, UTF-8 did win the character encoding wars. Kudos to the Unicode designers I guess.

No, we have an Emacs mode for this

Here you go: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix.errors.html

(% represents the csh, $ represents the bourne shell)
 
% "How poorly would you rate the Unix (so-called) user interface?
Unmatched ".
 
% rm congressional-ethics
rm: congressional-ethics nonexistent
 
% ar m God
ar: God does not exist
 
% [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
 
% ^How did the sex change^ operation go?
Modifier failed.
 
% If I had a ( for every $ Congress spent, what would I have?
Too many ('s.
 
%make love
Make:  Don't know how to make love.  Stop.
 
% sleep with me
bad character
 
% got a light?
No match.
 
% man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
 
% ^What is saccharine?
Bad substitute.
 
% \(-
(-: Command not found.
 
% sh
 
$ PATH=pretending! /usr/ucb/which sense
no sense in pretending
 
$ drink <bottle; opener
bottle: cannot open
opener: not found
 
$ mkdir matter; cat >matter
matter: cannot create
 
 
Or, in a System V (att) universe:
 
$ cat "can of food"
cat: cannot open can of food

Thank you kitty, for fighting against inflation