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In 2004, any code that contained backslashes (\) was likely to need some editing when placed in a Markdown code block. Backslashes weren’t treated literally within a code block; they acted as escape characters and made the output look different from the input. Very un-Markdown-ish.

More Shell, Less Egg

leancrew.com

Entire books can be written about the why of digital preservation in general, and pirate archivism in particular, but let us give a quick primer for those who are not too familiar. The world is producing more knowledge and culture than ever before, but also more of it is being lost than ever before. Humanity largely entrusts corporations like academic publishers, streaming services, and social media companies with this heritage, and they have often not proven to be great stewards.

How to Become a Pirate Archivist

annas-blog.org

The DS Scene has been mired in chaos since its inception. One of the main reasons is that it's taken a very long time for a standardized viable piracy solution to appear, so there has been no real standard for releasing or way of testing releases.

DS Scene - PHWiki

web.archive.org

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