• palordrolap
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    3121 hours ago

    Probably a prolonged awkward moment that I couldn’t escape. In chatting to an old friend I bumped into, I let slip that I’d heard something bad had happened to them and asked how they were doing. Rather than answering clearly, they were super interested in finding out who told me in the sort of way that I knew it would be a very bad idea™ for all concerned to reveal that information.

    I can’t remember how I got out of that. I sometimes think I’m still in that moment and all this is a fever dream as my brain tries desperately to escape.

    Honourable mentions: i) Zeroing the wrong partition on my own computer, all data unrecoverable. ii) Deleting all of a customer’s data rather than the one part they wanted removing. Luckily, in that case there were backups.

    Edit: Blind formatting fixes(?)

      • palordrolap
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        220 hours ago

        Hm. I’m guessing that the formatting which works on fedia.io doesn’t work elsewhere. I used _very bad idea_

        • @[email protected]
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          420 hours ago

          It looks (parses) as perfectly fine markdown on Lemmy (lemm.ee), it looks like how the markdown says it should look. The person above seems to want to inject asterisks into what you wrote for their own reasons, you did nothing wrong.

          • @JusticeForPorygon
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            20 hours ago

            It must be the app I’m using. Asterisks work but not underscores for some reason.
            My bad.

            Edit: well shit it worked fine when I typed it what the hell

            Edit: and the original post looks fine now. Ignore this I think I’m going insane.

            • palordrolap
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              116 hours ago

              You’re not going insane… probably. I edited the post to use asterisks which I assumed must be the more commonly used italic markdown. It might also be that the ™ is right after the markdown character which I know can cause some parsers to choke. YouTube’s comment system is a notable nuisance for this.

              • @JusticeForPorygon
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                16 hours ago

                YouTube cant recognize markdown for shit.

                Do underscores work there? Single asterisks bold characters, instead of the traditional double asterisk.

                Edit: it does work. Interesting.