I learned the concept as "1st rule of IRC: Never ask to ask." Or some variation there of.

JSON does lack comments. And numbers that are not 64 floats.

Usually many times a day... Even today which have been mostly meetings.

I had completely forgotten Abuse. I had it on my SGI Indy2 back when the game was new.

I rather like the approach of taking a well known problem ie handling http requests. And solving it using a bunch of different ways. I read in a "ah this maps to that" kind of way.

Yes, defederate. Facebook/Meta have show time and time again that they are up to no good.