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   Roy Tam (roytam1@miniwa.moe)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:47 JST Roy Tam

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   • mhoye (temporarily spooky)
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   @niconiconi @mhoye @mhkohne @limebar meanwhile, some fonts can make fontdrvhost.exe dies and kills every fonts on the display.
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     niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:48 JST niconiconi

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     @mhoye@mastodon.social @mhkohne@mastodon.social @limebar@mastodon.social Wait until you realize that Windows GDI code including the TrueType virtual machine used to run in kernel space before Windows 10.

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     Michael Kohne (mhkohne@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:49 JST Michael Kohne

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     @limebar @mhoye I thought it had already been proven Turing complete?

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:49 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

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     @mhkohne @limebar Yeah, that ship has sailed. Somebody has already shoehorned ML-based autocomplete tools into fonts.

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     Michael Kohne (mhkohne@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:50 JST Michael Kohne

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     @mhoye I have to say that I hate that every damn thing is turning complete these days. I don't really want my word processing documents to be active, I sure as hell hate that my FONTS are now doing things other than being symbols.

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     Lime Bar (limebar@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:50 JST Lime Bar

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     @mhkohne @mhoye
     I came here to ask who is gonna do the proof that OpenType is turing complete... and then write a virus?

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     mhoye (temporarily spooky) (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Aug-2024 12:30:51 JST mhoye (temporarily spooky)

     Some absolutely bonkers wizard magic right here: programmers' fonts with _built in syntax highlighting_.

     Built _into the font_.

     https://front-end.social/@argyleink/112966741005721546