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That's basically every other HN article for me. Zero context. "Blorglorp 2024.4.99 released" "With the new version, Blorglorp finally sheds its libgnipgnop dependency and increases efficiency by 1.25%". Bam, top post for the day, lots of multi-paragraph comments, and I'll still never know what it's even for.

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The context tends to come some time later, when they close store. "We at Derplabs are proud that we dared to make an opinionated jpeg viewer, Blorglorp, that only interpreted the four first bits of every byte and ignored the rest. Commonly referred to as 'the naughty bits' by image-viewing connoisseurs. Unfortunately the market was not ready, but we are sure our ideas will gain traction in the future. Our deepest gratitude to our customers and investors that were excited to join our journey."

You think? All the closing announcements I've seen were "we've reached the end of our incredible journey, we're proud to have served our users but your data is gone tomorrow. Good luck!".

Meanwhile, I never find out what the thing even does.

I can die happy if I never have to work with libgnipgnop again

But have you used the new 3.6 release which uses pfnaphell integration to stochastically pre-convolute the tertiary nodes? It's a game-changer!

lol v3.6.7845 doesn’t even self calibrate. Most people are on v3.6.8002a except Mac users and people using a venv. Works perfectly under newer plan9 emulators. I just use Albus mode in Emacs (trunk) and avoid a lot of those problems. If you forget to use trunk the mouse is disabled for some reason…

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