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That is either brilliant or terrifying. I tried to reach out via the GitLab account attached to the commits. The user profile is a 404. The email address is null@localhost.local . You cannot reply to the void. The void does not check its spam folder.

Or worse—nothing at all. Have you stumbled across any strange, abandoned GitLab pages? Let me know in the comments below. Or don't. The void is patient. ubgwtf.gitlab

There are no issues. No pull requests. No stars. For half a decade, this repository has existed in complete, utter isolation. What is ubgwtf ? I have three theories. That is either brilliant or terrifying

Inside the Digital Rabbit Hole: Unraveling the Mystery of ubgwtf.gitlab The email address is null@localhost

Last week, while scraping archive data for a project on unmaintained open-source software, I stumbled across a subdomain that stopped me mid-scroll: ubgwtf.gitlab.io .

At first glance, it looks like a typo. "UBG" usually stands for "Unblocked Games" in high school computer labs. "WTF" is the universal acronym for digital confusion. But together, prefixed to a GitLab static site? It felt like a key left under a digital doormat.

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Re: Watch out for 64 bit Incompatibility using the Visual FoxPro OleDb Provider


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David M
March 01, 2023

Just ran into this problem on new Win11 computer. The latest OLE and ODBC installers on https://github.com/VFPX/VFPInstallers resolved the issue for me. Thank you!

Re: Watch out for 64 bit Incompatibility using the Visual FoxPro OleDb Provider


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Paul
December 16, 2023

Some of my applications were regenerated using Chen's VFPA10 (64-bit), but one thing makes this experience unhappy: there is no VFPOleDB @64bit, making certain options like automation to Excel much more complicated. Will we one day have 64-bit VFPoleDB?

 
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