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Cake day: June 30th, 2023
  • I guess they want you to read the comics on their website? A quick search leads me to “gocomics.” Top comment on the first C&H page:

    “This’ll be the last comment I ever leave on GoComics. For those who don’t know, they just closed down r/calvinandhobbes due to copyright striking. Really lame and unnecessary perversion of fair use, especially in conjunction with the paywalling. Cancelling my subscription.”

    GoComics seems like a fine enough place to read comics. They have a lot of comics on there- aaaaaand a paywall. Yeah idk about that.

  • This reminds me of when I sent someone a program in a zip folder. Windows now opens zip folders by default, and it looks just like any other folder.

    So of course they opened the zip and double clicked the exe, but everyone knows you can’t open an exe inside a zip folder (at least, if the exe depends on the folders and files around it). If you try to, windows will extract the exe into a temp space, but leave all the dependencies behind. So the exe promptly crashes.

    I didn’t think I needed to specify “you need to extract the contents of the zip folder first, then run the exe.” It feels like saying “you need to take the blender out of the box before you can use it. And not just the _base _ of the blender, you have to take out all the parts.

    Some things just feel so much like second nature that we forget.