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I posted something. Then I noticed that it was formatted wrong! I went back to fix it in edit mode. It seemed fine in edit mode. I saved it again. It was still wrong.

The thing that was wrong: In source / edit, my sentences are separated with the charcters "period space space". This is a typing standard that improves legibility, which is extra important in effortposts. However, in the displayed mode, one of every double space had been eaten! Every post, every comment, mangled! Sentences are separated with "period space" instead of "period space space" and the text is slightly less legible for it. I noticed it for questionmark space space and exclamationmark space space as well. There's some secret life form eating spaces.

Testing behavior: Period Space: Sentence 1. Sentence 2.

Period Space Space: Sentence 1. Sentence 2.

Period Space Space Space: Sentence 1. Sentence 2.

Yep, saw it in preview, all the spaces are getting eaten. This is a crime against good style. I won't go so far as to say this is a hate crime against anyone who struggles with reading and visual processing... yet. But the site is editing my comment in order to enforce an objectively worse typographical standard (period singlespace). Literally 19 84. yeonmi-park on Communist Bear Site they automatically censor out your punctuation marks in order to make your writing conform to a worse standard, calling double spaces a bourgeois decadent waste of space.

Please help

(Also, should this go in /c/technology or in /c/hexbear? It's about both)

(Should I be submitting this as a bug report on github instead?)

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testing some things:

3.14 ... 5 ... a a a a a fidel-balling

A vampire is a wamphyr is a glampyre. A fish is a. phish. Potatoes buzz. Dr. Fish is a doctor. Dr. Fish doctors fish because that is the job of a veterinary doctor. Doctor Phish doctors code because he is a scam artist who seeks to bleed the ultrarich dry of their excess wealth in order to balance the humours of their soul, i.e. . For that he is called a criminal, by the robber-barons who are the greatest criminals of all. Mr. Fish loves Ms. Fish loves Mx. Fish and they are all in a poly triad. 2 of them are finishing up their training and they plan to open a private practice veterinary clinic next year called "Drs. Fish3s' Fish Hospital" which will focus on treating the various maladies that fish in aquaria may contract. Mx. Fish wants to also treat aquatic frogs because they love the little cuties, having had some African Dwarf Frogs as pets in college, which Ms. Fish agrees is a splendid idea. However Mr. Fish is a bit of a purist / snob in such matters, and secretly harbors misgivings about expanding the scope of care. Does the Fish theming work as well if they treat amphibians too? What next? Are they to treat snails? Shrimps? Where does it end?

One might conclude that the stability of this happy little triad is threatened by the seeds of overly aggressive phylogenetic classification. One year hence, when everything has fallen apart and heartbreak hath rent this Fishy family asunder, some will bitterly blame the unresolved conflict between the Phylogeneticists and the Linnaean Society, and the various partisans of that unresolved struggle will go forth into greater society to fight for their respective camps with renewed passion, fueled by the pain of loss. And it is true indeed that that is part of the conflict, but is not a half-truth also a half-lie? Worse, perhaps! For truth and falsehood are mutually exclusive binary states, and if Truth hath even one Iota of Falsity to it, it becomes False. It will be easier for them to blame their woes on the external force of this scientific campist debate than to face that most brutal of harsh truths: their love was rent not by external factors, not by debates over whether or not a whale be fish, but by that which poisons so many relationships: unwillingness to communicate, coupled with disdain and disrespect for he, she, and they who should be most adored.

Let the broken Fish Family cope, I say. Tragedy caused by broader forces is still a tragedy, but an understandable one, with an enemy to fight. "Those damn Phylogeneticists are why my heart is broken", Mrs. Fish will say, and swear eternal Jihad against. "Those d—d Linnaeans are why my heart is broken, Mr. Fish will say, as he promises to wage a crusade against the LInnaeans. And what of Mx. Fish, you may ask? They will return to their pre-marriage name, Mx. Cnidaria, and grapple with that bitterest of truths: Love was killed not by forces greater than them, forces which can be fought and blamed and made to pay in the form of arsenic at the next scientific conference of the other society. Love sometimes just dies because one or more of the people involved turn out to not be good enough for it, and there is nothing anyone can do about that.

Yeah it's not perfect but it's working pretty well