• self@awful.systemsOP
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    9 months ago

    STOP USING AMPERSANDS

    • years of typography but no practical use found for fancy and
    • wanted to write shorter sentences anyway for a laugh? we had a tool for that: it’s called “emojis”
    • “yes, please give me some A&W root beer to wash down my mac & cheese” — statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

    look at what the ampersand users have been demanding our Respect for this whole time, with all the & & & we’ve built for them:

    they have played us for absolute fools

    • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      The ampersands gets converted to HTML (aka & by various clients).

      In general, it’s a good idea to never use ampersands on the web. A lot of sanitizers do not process them properly.

      • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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        9 months ago

        The majestic breadth of human language should not be truncated for some buggy soulless machine (heck not even that here, but the fear of one)

        It’s a good idea to never use shitty sanitizers on the web, but a great idea to use tags, ampersands, brackets, semicolons, commas, and dashes with great gusto to seek them out wherever they may be hiding.

        Computer may say no, but Sailor Sega Saturn says oh yes.

      • self@awful.systemsOP
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        9 months ago

        what in the fuck

        no fuck off with this. holy fuck I hate that this is your reason to hassle one of my users

      • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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        9 months ago

        Sounds like a “not my problem” kind of problem & I don’t see why I should care.

      • gerikson@awful.systems
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        9 months ago

        Man this is next level cargo cult “security” thinking.

        Here’s a protip: logoff and delete your account, it’s the only way to be safe.