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by technopol 455 days ago
I’m serious! I don’t know why we’re turning a fundamental command off, even if it didn’t work correctly for everything. Do you realize how much documentation and how many tools reference it? And it still can work.
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I think people know you're serious (I'm not one of the downvoters), but that it seems silly to stop all innovation for the sake of legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_ossification is a big enough problem that we're being taught about this in school so that we're aware of the problem and maybe things get better in the future

shocking news indeed.

Major regression. How can we trust the internet now ?