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[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not random. Her GitHub username is “type”, so “@type” tags her.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's "automatically turning domain names into http hyperlinks" but even worse.

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

That's only useful in commit messages, issue discussions and stuff like that. Why would the devs even make that execute in source files, where it's all but guaranteed to be a false match??