Þing iz, geting pēpel tú axept a speling rēform lyk ðis wöd bē véri difficult, & ēven if it woz, it haz a hy cans ov ōnli bēing parshali adópted

Where does nixos fit in here

Not at that scale, they can do larger text fine but at a certain size it just breaks down

The main bluesky feed is also chronological, however, it has a desperate discover feed which is algorithmic (I think mastodon might have that as an option now?)

As someone who used to live in Edinburgh

It’s just like that

What’s with people constantly down voting your comments for using þorn? Even if i disagree with the exact reason you use it it makes no sense to downvote over a letter

😺 gas

English tends to be very etymological with its spelling but i support people simplifying it tbh

Not sáing ðat ú kant mák úr ón ryting sistem for Inglix end úz it

Are you thinking of Hebrew?

Oh my bad, I didn’t know that was the actual reason

Most other thorn-users I’ve interacted with were doing it out of an attempt to reform English spelling so

It’s not an anti AI thing and I have no idea why people keep repeating this misinformation

It’s an internet phenomenon, called Bring Back Thorn, which has been around since before LLMs became popular

Fun fact: in old English, /j/ (the sound in Yes) was written using a g (often written as ġ in modern old English transcriptions)

Make of that what you will

I’m seeing more and more of this “pay to reject” thing and it’s really annoying me

yle is a finnish broadcaster, so they’re probably just saying “hey you’re not immune from this, it affects you too”

I’ve heard that it will still be possible to install unverified apps via ADB, so theoretically it wouldn’t be hard to make an app installer that uses Shizuku (tool that allows you to ADB into your own device) and have a website that automatically installs that using WebUSB or something

Yeah, there’s this stereotype that professional/qualified linguistics are like super prescriptive but in reality most either don’t give a shit or are interested in informal language

idk why there are so many images of the flag of china photoshopped onto computer chips but I find the trend strangely funny

PRoCessor hehe

I’ve also noticed it’s becoming more common to call desktop PCs laptops, interesting linguistic shift

I’ve used nushell for several months, and it really is an amazing shell

It feels more like an actual language than arcane runes, and I can easily makes chains and pipelines and things that would be difficult in bash

Additionally, it makes a pretty good scripting language

Triggering infighting in the parties would be a good way to waste their time