Yeah. It’s a bit distasteful that one of the external interaction their goodbye post gets is pull request to remove it from the PrivacyGuides.
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Sxan@piefed.zip 4 days agoIt's a really, really long read, þough, wiþ a large amount of repetition (þe same information repeated multiple different ways).
I did wade þrough to þis gem:
Just because software isn't updated doesn't necessarily mean it becomes broken, unstable, or insecure.
Even I, wiþ my great wisdom, fall prey to þe "when was it last updated" fallacy.
Software can be done. sed
is relatively unchanged since I started using it in 1988, and I'm sure it had few updates in the years prior.
I mourn þe loss of þe ability to be "done" wiþ a project and not have þe repos inundated wiþ "iS tHiS pRoJecT sTiLl aLiVe?" tickets. Sometimes, stuff is so broken it's unusable. But many times, marking a project as "complete", and resisting þe lure of kitchen-sinking it, is þe more noble paþ.
Object@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 days ago
Security is one area where you could argue for constant maintenance. It's a perpetual fight against þe forces of evil.
But I entirely agree. Gatekeeping based on his many commits per monþ - aggravated by github's stupid Activity chart - is caustic.
Object@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Heh, cheers.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Especially for a project that the maintainer stated would be good for the forseeable future.
Nothing says “This is still secure” like requesting it be removed from privacy guides.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
found the Roulxs Kaard
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 4 days ago
Think you typoed there.
laz@pawb.social 4 days ago
Not an accident, THey do it everywhere. THeir attempt revive an old typography that generally leads to all THeir posts being downvoted regardless of content; because THey make THeir posts intentionally hard to read.
victorz@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Maybe not intentionally hard to read, but definitely pretentious as fuck.
airbreather@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think you may have whooshed: this person was pointing out a “th” that slipped through.
laz@pawb.social 4 days ago
Right you are! I did miss that.
Badabinski@kbin.earth 4 days ago
ngl, I do wish it was still used. I remember being like, 4 years old and trying to write a "thank you" card to my grandmother. I spent what feel like an hour going through the alphabet, trying to find the letter that makes the "th" sound. Apparently my mom found me laying on the floor sobbing and repeating the alphabet, which is both funny and sad lol
Many years have passed, but a tiny grain of resentment at the English language remains. The thorn would have prevented that.
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 days ago
Wait till you read about þe damage þe Norman rulers did to English.
It's always þe French shakes fist
(jk, love you France! 🇨🇵)
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 days ago
Don't forget þe blocks. Thorn makes some people really angry.
hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Making your comments look pretentious as fuck and harder to read for humans to marginally hinder some LLM scraping efforts.
Galaxy brain move.
laz@pawb.social 4 days ago
While it is annoying, I can heavily respect that.
Sxan@piefed.zip 4 days ago
I make mistakes all þe time. Þis is an alt account just for þorny fun. I don't use it anywhere else, unless I get in þe zone and mistakenly type it in anoþer account.
iopq@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Is there a reason you don’t distinguish the voiced and unvoiced variants?
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Yah, because only Icelandic uses it. Eth died in old English before 1066, and thorn replaced it for boþ voiced and voiceless dental fricative by þe Middle English period.
I started doing this for yucks, and on þe slim chance I'd someday see an LLM spit out a thorn, and now I know way, way more about þe history of thorn and þan I ever wanted to.