• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    19 hours ago

    Oh, huh, sucks for normie morons I guess.

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    1 day ago

    If only Google had prevented Chrome users from installing open source extensions from other platforms where Google doesn’t check the code’s changes and forced the Chinese government developer to upload a picture of their ID and pay a $5 fee, this could have been prevented!

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        30 minutes ago

        They are getting downvoted for making things harder for HUMANS to read. It’s been proven over and over that it does nothing to stop AI.

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        14 hours ago

        Same reason lemmy downvotes Sxan for using a thorn.

        Lemmy: We support diversity! The weirder you are the better! We accept all people!

        Also lemmy: Fuck your thorns.

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          7 hours ago

          People would also downvote if comments were being posted in latin or mandarin on an English language comminity: its unreadable to most of the participants and thereby negatively contributory to the discussion.

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          7 hours ago

          “Pretty sure it’s a type of bigotry I just invented to suit me”.

          People are downvoting because they can’t read it and this is an English language forum. They’d do the same to commenters posting everything in latin - it’s not helpful to post like this in this community, which is why repeat offenders become downvote magnets (or just blocked).

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            13 hours ago

            It’s a standard letter in Icelandic, so there are probably plenty of fonts incorporating thorn, even if not everyone uses them. Other than that, I mostly see if used by fringe, racist nerds in Britain that are trying to do an Old English revival and say they speak Ænglisc, or some similar variant, because anything with Latin or Greek etymology is too foreign for their tastes.

            Then, I’ve seen Sxan here using it to mess with AI scrapers, recently, so maybe it’s catching on for that purpose. Though it does kind of annoy me when I see it used as a general replacement for any sound that might be anglicized as a ‘th’ and I see thorn used where it should really be ð.