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Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is what we get for diverging from God’s word (ASCII)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

I guess I should refrain from writing text in my own language using non-ASCII symbols due to American exceptionalism and piety.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking about whether I should put an /s in my comment when I wrote it, and I thought “nah, it’s pretty clear that it’s a joke”. You have proved me wrong. I promise to do better next time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who is to say I am being totally serious here?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, got me with the ol’ Uno reverse card. It can be hard to tell with the tankies on Lemmy with zero senses of humor, taking every opportunity for diatribe, even obvious jokes

[–] P1nkman 2 points 2 months ago

Too true.

[–] whatwhatwhatwhat 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thank you for realizing the error of your ways

Eagle screech

(also /s in case that wasn’t clear)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there any major languages that actually struggle to be typed today?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I substitute æ, ø and å with ae, oe and aa because it gives me trouble writing code. Does the programming language I write in and almost everything else support UTF-8: Yes. Does some obscure thing always fuck up the encoding of special characters: Yes.

Especially converting files and moving them between different OS sucks.

This is kinda what my joke is about, taking the parent comment "seriously" because someone, an American I presume, did not take encoding seriously once sometime and now fucks up my workflow for eternity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I don't like ASCII because it doesn't has diacritics, and just by that it excludes the whole world.

[–] bhamlin 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would have pegged EBCDIC for that, but ok

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen EBCDIC used anywhere other than the curriculum of my "Fundamentals of Programming" class 25 years ago.

[–] bhamlin 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was IBM's binary to character transform. DB2 can still use it if you configure it to do so. Or was at least as of the version from 1998 that I had to replace.

[–] toynbee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm familiar with it from the aforementioned class, but thank you. I've just never seen it used.

[–] bhamlin 2 points 2 months ago

And hopefully you never will