zinke owl cabre @zwol@mastodon.social

argh it's only been two years and these parked-domain-detection regexes are already no good
or perhaps they were never good and I failed to notice

It is really not cool that the top level of html.spec.whatwg.org is the gigantic single-page version of the document.

actually I don't understand why the gigantic single-page version of the document even exists. who wants that?

busted in their pubic beards returning through Laredo with a belt of marijuana for New York,

Really frustrated with the dueling bad takes on the summit.

The DPRK is a totalitarian state that must be destroyed *and* its isolation has probably caused more harm than good, military action certainly would; the present thaw in relations, especially with the RoK, is the best available path to a good resolution *and* D*n*ld Tr*mp is neither competent nor trustworthy to negotiate toward that end.

ALL THESE THINGS ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY TRUE.

A Puzzle:
Some kind of botched character encoding conversion has turned the string 'лесбийская новостная лента' into the string 'КЕЯАХИЯЙЮЪ МНБНЯРМЮЪ КЕМРЮ'.
What exactly happened, and is the botch reversible algorithmically?
(The original text was declared as encoded in KOI8-R, if that helps.)

(LibreOffice *can* spellcheck Turkish even if you only have English locales on your system, but three of the four hoops you have to jump through are 100% bullshit. There is a dropdown in the obvious place to control this but it doesn’t control anything; it exists only to mock you.)

Oh hey, in this font I can actually see what was going on with the weird illegibly accented “i”s. Dotted i with combining dot above. Probably originally dotless ı with combining dot above, then mangled. Spell checker was doing the right thing turning it into plain dotted i. Hooray for Unicode 🙃

My phone tree experience earlier today, starring a large American bank you may have heard of:

Robot demands an account number before it will connect me with anyone at all. I don’t have an account number. OK, robot says, tell me last 4 digits of your social security number. Fine. Ah yes, says robot, you must be calling about the account held by [person]. Balance is [number]. What can we do for you?

So I guess I could have put in four random digits and gotten someone else’s account, huh? 🤔

Another entry in the same file reads "i̇stanbul 1 no'lu hakimlik (tmk 10.maddesi i̇le görevli)" and I'm almost certain this refers to the same agency except in Istanbul instead of Ankara, if that helps

Native speakers of Turkish, can you make any sense out of the phrase "ankara (tmknin 10. maddesi ile görevli) 1 nolu hakimligi", and what would be the canonical, unabbreviated way to write it? It may contain weird abbreviations, misspellings, and lost diacritics (for instance, I'm about 80% sure "hakimligi" is supposed to be "hakimlığı"). "ankara" definitely does refer to the city of Ankara.