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by zac23or 622 days ago
> Even if an established protocol (HTTP, SMTP, CSV, FTP) technically requires CRLF as a line ending, do not comply. Send only NL.

Insane. First i think it was a April 1st joke, but is not.

Let's break everything because YES.

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Indeed. Very strange to hear a break-the-world suggestion from a person leading a company famous for never breaking the world.

I'm kind of confused by this whole post.

I do understand the desire for simplification (let's ignore the argument of whether this is one), but...

Let's all move to little-endian while we're at it. Don't accept anything else!