Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

of all the professions I expected to have their own symbols in unicode, I never would have guessed Dentistry.

U+23BE Dentistry Symbol Light Vertical and Top Right
through
U+23CC Dentistry Symbol Light Vertical and Bottom Left

Mar 20 at 11:26amWeb
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20
I may have slightly slashdotted the site
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20
removed the link to a search on a unicode site
Show threadEmily_SMar 20
"Oh heck! prods down! What happened?!"
"We've had a 5000% increase in hits to our search endpoint!"
"what the heck? Where are they coming from? An AI crawller going mad?"
"Oh no! Worse! @foone posted a link! It's thousands of real nerds"
Show threadXe Mar 20
@foone slightly
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Mar 20
@cadey yeah in retrospect having a bunch of mastodon instances automatically query a fulltext search results page was PROBABLY a mistake
Show threadColinMar 20
@foone @cadey is this traffic caused by users all interacting with the link? Or the mere inclusion of the link causes fedi to try to crawl it something? (And when other instances are notified of the status too?)
Show threadJernej Simončič �Mar 20
@colinstu @foone @cadey Whenever you post a link to a site, every instance that the post federates to will try to fetch preview data from the link, so you can expect something like 300-500 requests within a few seconds, which seems to be quite a burden for many sites.
Show threadthe vessel of morgannaMar 20
@colinstu @foone @cadey the latter; I have to filter out *so* much fedi noise every time I look at my access logs. even just updating my profile triggers a rescrape on thousands of instances
Show threadColinMar 20
@astraleureka @foone @cadey I'm curious why the remote instances have to reach out directly, instead of relying upon the source instance to provide card link fetching/preview / act as a proxy or something.
Show threadthe vessel of morgannaMar 20
@colinstu @foone @cadey that would require trusting the source instance, which seems like a Really Bad Idea
Show threadprmthsMar 20
Even as someone who doesn't care for Star Trek, it still pisses me off that we got *this* before the Klingon alphabet in Unicode.
@foone
Show threadjleedevMar 20
@foone https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2093.pdf has receipts from 1999
Show threadCharles PenceMar 20

@foone This made me go look through the "Miscellaneous Technical Block" and for some reason the existence of

⍻ "NOT CHECK MARK"

made me laugh out loud

why
why would you need this

Show threadThe FaceMar 20
@pence @foone There should be a "NOT A PIPE" one as well
Show threadandrybakMar 20
@pence seemingly because of ISO 2047 "Information processing – Graphical representations for the control characters of the 7-bit coded character set". I didn't check too deeply, but it is a visual representation of NAK