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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:01:00 JST pistolero
   The :9front::glenda: stream is about to have moody's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyuEwb9fCp0 .
   
   He is a really cool guy and always interesting.
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     Kanon de Rothschilde (kanon@eientei.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:47:08 JST Kanon de Rothschilde

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     @p watching
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:47:32 JST pistolero

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     @kanon It was kinda interesting. He described some work that I'm glad someone else did.
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     di0nysius the patomskyite (dsm@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:47:41 JST di0nysius the patomskyite

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     @p I swear I heard this shit about unicode on fedi. Crazy deja vu. Glad the audio is better now.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 23:47:53 JST pistolero

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     @dsm Unicode is awful.
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     di0nysius the patomskyite (dsm@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:30:20 JST di0nysius the patomskyite

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     @p Korean unicode seems especially cursed.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:43:31 JST pistolero

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     @dsm I don't know who came up with that.
     
     I listened to tb tell me about China and Japan fighting the Unicode Consortium over wanting different codepages "for the same character" that "looks exactly the same!" And, you know, it's one thing for an engineer to misjudge a situation by forgetting politics and human interactions, it's another when it's a committee of standards dinguses do it because they're eyeballin' it and they don't remember that these characters change due to politics but they want to conserve the 4.2 billion slots FOR SHIT LIKE ELVISH AND KLINGON AND "PREGNANT BEARDED MAN WITH ADJUSTABLE SKIN TONE AND HAIR STYLES AND COLORS" because Twitter dipshits' politics affect decisions but not "The Chinese government has changed all of these characters' official renderings and now all of the other Asian languages that use Chinese letters have retroactively illegible text".
     
     So, I figure that it was some guy that read the Wikipedia entry for Hangul and said "Let's just make them Korean letters combine like lego to save space so that we can add 'with visible erection' modifiers to the emoji code pages and the boner can be different sizes".
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     di0nysius the patomskyite (dsm@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:43:39 JST di0nysius the patomskyite

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     @p Wonder how Japanese solved that...
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:45:03 JST pistolero

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     @dsm We wouldn't have this problem if MacArthur had drawn a different line on the map. :tennoheikabanzai::tojo::tennoheikabanzai:
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:49:12 JST 

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     @p @dsm >different codepages "for the same character" that "looks exactly the same!"
     I mean, the letters А and A look the same despite being different characters.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:52:43 JST feld

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     @p @dsm
     
     > and the boner can be different sizes
     
     Finally getting some inclusivity and representation by the Unicode committee.
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 13:59:40 JST 

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     @p @dsm Also they're yet to change Afghani flag to the current one.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 16:02:52 JST pistolero

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     @feld @dsm It's important to not have to process any abstractions.
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     radix023 (radix023@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 16:31:04 JST radix023

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     @mint @dsm @p

     There's even a tool to find things that appear the same:

     https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp

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     josemanuel@qoto.org's status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 17:20:39 JST josemanuel

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     @p Correction: Klingon was rejected by those motherfuckers. I don't know about elvish. I don't follow that fandom.

     @dsm

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 17:20:47 JST pistolero

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     @josemanuel @dsm It's the same shit.
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     di0nysius the patomskyite (dsm@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 23:59:36 JST di0nysius the patomskyite

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     @mint @p Or Gulf of America.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-May-2025 23:59:54 JST pistolero

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     @dsm @mint
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     di0nysius the patomskyite (dsm@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 25-May-2025 09:50:08 JST di0nysius the patomskyite

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     @mint @p "that's not unicode"
     
     I'm still waking up.
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