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Hello, world. Again.
RT @michaelerard@twitter.com
A lot of ink and pixels have been spilled railing at, beseeching, and/or emoji encoding and design decisions. But there's a bigger point that is often lost: emoji gave the technologically privileged the experience of being, for the first time, outside.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/michaelerard/status/1153684513567977474
RT @michaelerard@twitter.com
For years, I tried to get editors interested in stories about Unicode. "What's the big deal?" they said (I'm paraphrasing). "I can write the emails I want." Basically, English-speaking, Latin alphabet using people were never going to understand the digitally underserved.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/michaelerard/status/1153675466705969152
RT @internetofshit@twitter.com
this is fucked up and you should throw your Ring doorbell in the trash https://twitter.com/dellcam/status/1156317974023852032
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/internetofshit/status/1156967756497072129
RT @dorrismccomics@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dorrismccomics/status/1153319322724573185
RT @FROGTips@twitter.com
DO NOT SMASH FROG'S "LIKE" BUTTON. REPLACEMENT "LIKE" BUTTONS CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE FROG SYSTEMS INC. SPARE PARTS CATALOG (PART NO. 5419-80B), BUT ARE EXPENSIVE: AVOID A COSTLY REPAIR BY GENTLY TAPPING FROG'S "LIKE" BUTTON.
RT @computerfact@twitter.com
smash that subscribe button before it smashes you
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/computerfact/status/1151467499084484608
RT @trvsg@twitter.com
Dear @SlackHQ@twitter.com,
5+ years later, version 4.0 comes out. And still no dark mode?
What gives?
Sincerely,
Everyone
RT @FiloSottile@twitter.com
I'm a big fan of brew cask for its library of zap instructions, which remove all traces of an application, however it was installed.
The Zoom one has just been updated to remove the persistent server.
brew update
brew cask zap -f zoomus
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1148587616243204096
RT @Oatmeal@twitter.com
You know the drill.
RT @rdonoghue@twitter.com
Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM'd books will stop working.
I cannot believe that sentence.
"The books will stop working."
I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1144011630197522432
RT @cramforce@twitter.com
Awesome, my dad's car has a GDPR popup every time you turn it on
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/1143487108960722944
RT @AeroDork@twitter.com
This is a subtweet. https://twitter.com/navalinstitute/status/1142852819088826370
RT @ctrlcreep@twitter.com
The underclass is obsolete, locked offline by deprecated hardware. You can't get online to buy new implants that will let you get online. You are confined to the meatspace ghetto
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1137048969370955776
RT @aemkei@twitter.com
This is the real Java-Script because it is #JS written in the Javanese alphabet:
ꦊ='',ꦄ=!ꦊ+ꦊ,ꦌ=!ꦄ+ꦊ,ꦍ=ꦊ+{},ꦎ=ꦄ[ꦊ++],ꦏ=ꦄ[ꦐ=ꦊ],ꦑ=++ꦐ+ꦊ,ꦒ=ꦍ[ꦐ+ꦑ],ꦄ[ꦒ+=ꦍ[ꦊ]+(ꦄ.ꦌ+ꦍ)[ꦊ]+ꦌ[ꦑ]+ꦎ+ꦏ+ꦄ[ꦐ]+ꦒ+ꦎ+ꦍ[ꦊ]+ꦏ][ꦒ](ꦌ[ꦊ]+ꦌ[ꦐ]+ꦄ[ꦑ]+ꦏ+ꦎ+"(ꦊ)")()
RT @codepo8@twitter.com
˙ǝןdoǝd ɹoɟ ǝɹɐɯʇɥbıu ɐ ǝɹɐ sʇǝǝʍʇ ʎʞunɟ ɹnoʎ ˙ʎɐp ssǝuǝɹɐʍɐ ʎʇıןıqıssǝɔɔɐ ʎddɐɥ
RT @joohoi@twitter.com
This is apparently how you say ”Your device doesn’t get compromised by nation state actors” in a way that makes people to actually update...
RT @eevee@twitter.com
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript/
ironically my first attempt to copy this link failed, because google uses onclick javascript to turn search result urls into tracking garbage
RT @xor@twitter.com
Which is of course not to say that text encoding is (or can be) apolitical. On this topic I always recommend @chimeracoder@twitter.com's classic 2015 piece https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can-text-you-a-pile-of-poo-but-i-cant-write-my-name
RT @xor@twitter.com
If anything, the importance of the campaign (and of representation and diversity efforts generally!) just underscores how bizarre it is to put these decisions in the hand of a text encoding standards body
RT @xor@twitter.com
I don't begrudge this campaign one bit, but emoji were such a mistake https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/us/afro-emoji.html
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