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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 23-Oct-2025 06:21:11 JST Anil Dash

   Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. https://www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:01:12 JST Anil Dash

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     • Stefan Ihringer

     @compfu that's bananas, especially from the same company that publishes The Verge, where they actually know how these things work.

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     Stefan Ihringer (compfu@mograph.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:01:14 JST Stefan Ihringer

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     @anildash Thanks for your article. Shortly after reading it I found a fawning piece by VOX. "ChatGPT’s new mission is to fix the broken web" 🤮

     https://www.vox.com/technology/465795/chatgpt-atlas-google-chrome-gemini-perplexity-comet

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:13 JST Anil Dash

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     • Stian

     @sab fully intentional, I care a lot about accessibility and also I love lynx. (And use the CLI every day, as I said in the piece!)

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     Stian (sab@hostux.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:15 JST Stian

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     For someone so willing to trash CLI your website renders _beautifully_ in Lynx.
     @anildash

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:37 JST Anil Dash

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     • Bradley Schaefer
     • Jonathan Hogg

     @soulcutter @jonathanhogg I was just goofing on text adventures, I think they're great. I mentioned in the piece that I use a CLI every day?

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     Bradley Schaefer (soulcutter@ruby.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:38 JST Bradley Schaefer

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     • Jonathan Hogg

     @jonathanhogg @anildash I would assert that the overlap of people who like/liked text based adventures and tech bros is tiny if it exists at all.

     Text based adventure fans are Real Ones - people who are authentic to themselves regardless of what society / Anil think of them.

     It's hours since I read that, and I'm still harboring feelings about it.

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     Jonathan Hogg (jonathanhogg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:39 JST Jonathan Hogg

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     • Bradley Schaefer

     @soulcutter @anildash I imagine that the thinking was somehow that text adventure players have gone on to become AI techbros and so this counts as 'punching up', but in reality most are just ordinary people, so this largely ends up punching down instead

     "Nerds not getting laid, amirite?" feels like a lazier take than I had expected from Anil

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     Jonathan Hogg (jonathanhogg@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:40 JST Jonathan Hogg

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     @anildash I'm unclear why you take potshots at people who enjoyed (or still enjoy) text adventure games, though? These were often incredible works of art and the language of using them was well understood by those who played. The whole line about "physical touch" is just incredibly mean and directs your ire at the wrong target. It spoils an otherwise great article.

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     Bradley Schaefer (soulcutter@ruby.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:07:40 JST Bradley Schaefer

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     • Jonathan Hogg

     @jonathanhogg @anildash For real. I’m glad I read the rest of the article, but contempt for text based adventure games was a huge turn off. Describing frustration for finding prompts is fine, but then going on to dunk on people characterized as not knowing the touch of a human being was f-ed up. Come on, man.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:10:23 JST Anil Dash

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     • urig

     @urig (that part was pretty clearly a joke?)

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     urig (urig@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 07:10:24 JST urig

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     @anildash warning: contains a bad take about people who love CLIs

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     Jonathan Hogg (jonathanhogg@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 01:42:12 JST Jonathan Hogg

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     @anildash I’m generally agnostic about whether people use or like CLIs, but if you meant to be light-hearted then I think you need to go back and look at that line about physical touch again – it is more brutal than you imagine, and particularly unpleasant for many neurodivergent, queer or just shy people who struggled to connect to their peers during a pretty miserable period

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 01:42:12 JST Anil Dash

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     • Jonathan Hogg

     @jonathanhogg I don’t think any of them could read it in an intellectually honest way as a slight at any of those situations, speaking as someone who’s neurodivergent myself. It is very plainly obvious that the joke was not framed around any of that, and it would take a lot of work to twist the wording to even imply it. I’m always happy to take critique if I’ve inadvertently been insensitive, but I’m less open to theoretical slights.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 08:53:57 JST Anil Dash

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     • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:
     • Cognitive Dissidence

     @Jonstewartmill @markwyner he was probably making a joke because he uses CLIs every day

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     Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm: (markwyner@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 08:53:58 JST Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

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     @anildash I was interested until I read “we left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason.”

     Um…

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     Cognitive Dissidence (jonstewartmill@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 08:53:58 JST Cognitive Dissidence

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     • Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:

     @markwyner @anildash
     He probably never even heard of PowerShell, Microsoft's answer to the Linux CLI.