Today I learned that there is a specific #unicode "record separator" symbol, formally known as "U+001E Information Separator Two".

https://codepoints.net/U+001E

It is meant to be used to indicate a separation between two units of information. An example of where this could be used is in a separated-value file, e.g. a CSV, but using this symbol instead of a comma.

This is interesting because there are vanishingly few instances where the record separator symbol would appear in most contexts, but many instances where a comma appears. Using this symbol instead of a comma (or a semi-colon, or an exclamation point, or any one of the usual separators) could make some data hygiene scenarios much more straightforward.

When you have a popular open source project, you will periodically get suspicious-looking PRs that seem like tests to see how easy it is to land a malicious change.

Here's the latest:
https://github.com/eslint/eslint/pull/19433

Der Bundesrat hat heute seine Auslegeordnung zur Regulierung von künstlicher Intelligenz veröffentlicht. Die Analyse und der Regulierungsansatz ist leider mangelhaft:

Selbst grundlegende Verfahrensgarantien können unter dem Vorwand „nationaler Sicherheitsinteressen“ durch Artikel 3 der KI-Konvention ausgehebelt werden!

Wir fordern einen effektiven Schutz vor automatisierten Entscheidungen.

https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-104110.html