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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:38:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   The good news is that I avoided installing windows 95 today.

   the bad news? I'm installing Visual Basic 6 instead.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:41:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     image designed to scare web developers

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:48:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Xe :verified:

     @cadey probably yeah but I don't think it's possible to stop me now

   • Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:48:37 JST Xe :verified:

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     @foone do you need help

   • fraggLe! (fwaggle@moodoo.org)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:51:23 JST fraggLe!

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     @foone I made so many bad life choices with VB6, like the time I started writing a set of IRC services bots in it.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 10:51:23 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • fraggLe!

     @fwaggle nice! I wrote an IRC client in it once. it was a mess

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:43:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah I had to do some confirmation: I loaded up a clean windows 95 machine, installed a clean visual studio 6, compiled a blank VB6 project with no code, and it set off 6 antiviruses on virustotal

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 11:45:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     gonna distribute my app by installing windows 95 into a VM and then bundling DOSBox-X with the disk image, running my app inside it

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:09:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Xe :verified:

     @cadey definitely not

   • Xe :verified: (cadey@pony.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:09:36 JST Xe :verified:

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     @foone Do I need to fly back to the bay area?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:10:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • niche witch with a 🐝

     @clairely_undaunted yes. It was fully powered by VB6

   • niche witch with a 🐝 (clairely_undaunted@mastodon.triggerphra.se)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 12:11:00 JST niche witch with a 🐝

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     @foone is this ST:TOS Enterprise?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 15:41:20 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Emil Ivanec

     @gomez no code! I did nothing

   • Emil Ivanec (gomez@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Feb-2024 15:41:21 JST Emil Ivanec

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     @foone have you used shellexecute? AVs don’t like that

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:57:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • bwrsandman

     @sandy oh, me too!

     it's just bad news because it currently is 2024, and not 1998

   • bwrsandman (sandy@graphics.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:57:37 JST bwrsandman

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     @foone bad news? I have such fond memories of learning to code with VB6. Jumped to other languages eventually but I actually did some vb6 professionally!