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.

  • haverholm@kbin.earth
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    25 days ago

    I use markdown for pretty much everything, and I agree with the overall notion of this rundown, but —

    Seeing weird characters when you copy-paste from AI? That’s because ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, and others use Markdown to format their responses.

    Yeah, maybe that’s not the gotcha the author thought it would be.

    Markdown — so stupid simple even stochastic parrots can figure it out is a slogan that will age like milk.