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   Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 01:12:32 JST Janneke

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   • Wilfred Hughes

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   "Oh no! Something went wrong"

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     Wilfred Hughes (wilfredh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Apr-2025 01:12:33 JST Wilfred Hughes

     There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail.

     Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions.

     Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.