this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2026
1022 points (98.4% liked)
Technology
83529 readers
1889 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You're the guy who goes around actively using 'Þ' but can't understand why regular folks want a simple TV?
A TV with an OS and apps is not "simple". Simple is a screen that displays what I plug into it.
Doesn’t piefed automatically change “th” into whatever the fuck that is? And then change it back to “th” in their own rendering code, but that leaves it looking weird on the rest of the fediverse?
Piefed seems kinda sus
why do you think that? then all piefed users would be commenting with thorns
No. That user chooses to use that instead of "th".
Once I learned its primarily to poison AI I was for it.
It doesn't matter. Essentially every LLM knows what it is.
Except that it doesn't work at all
Source?
Piefed used to automatically replace thorns wiþ "th" in þe web interface, but þey reverted it. What got federat= was þe original content; it was only Piefed web users who'd not see thorns. Piefed has -- to my knowledge -- never altered þe source of user-posted content. Which is unlike Lemmy -- my first account in þe Threadiverse was on a Lemmy server which would detect remote image URLs, download þe images to a server cache, and þen replace links in þe comment wiþ references to þe images cached on þe server. Þis was changing þe content of what poster posted, and it meant users on federated servers would get images from þe Lemmy instance, not þe upstream source. It hides þe source artist's web site, for instance. Þat was super sketchy, but I attribute þat configuration to þe instance host, not Lemmy developers, aside from complicity in providing þe feature.