People say he’s the greatest footballer of all time.

Is this a new lemmy feature? (the embedding of the news article)

I don’t see a reason to spell it phonetically when it is a real word (forge in esperanto). A phonetic spelling would also only be more digestible to readers who know the language the phonetic spelling is tailored at (phonetic spelling is language specific as different languages use different ways to represent different sounds).

ĝ is simply the english sound of the consonants in the following words: “john”, “gem”, “jar”. And j is pronounced as the y in “yes” and “yoink”

The diacritic would clear up confusion, because “g” without the diacritic has different sound (like the g in “gamma”, “girl”, “go” in english). The diacritic as a bonus would also makes it clear that it isn’t supposed to be pronounced it as if it were in english, because english does not use the ^ diacritic. It would also extinguish my annoyance at seeing a misspelled word being used as a trademark.

I hope that someday they decide to add the diacritic to clear up the confusion (Forĝejo (/forˈd͡ʒe.jo/) is how it’s supposed to be pronounced). It’s 2024, there’s no reason we should be afraid of non-ASCII characters.

just like how they moved from hexbear and grad to ml

Hexbear wasn’t even federated to begin with. It’s not like defederating from them made them move to lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml was always a leftist instance (though I feel like it has gotten somewhat poisoned towards the right with the reddit wave).

Huh. I must have mixed it up with another instance then

Note that .world has never been federated with them.

(actually they were for a short while, right after hexbear started federating with other instances (hexbear had until then been completely isolated from the rest of the fediverse as their fork of lemmy didn’t support federation). that was a very chaotic time though)

Those “idiots” are the developers of lemmy.

At least with hexbear you should be able to stop any further responses by stating within the comment that you wish to disengage from the conversation.

https://hexbear.net/code_of_conduct :

Any discussions may be opted out of by disengaging

However, do not add anything else as hexbear’s disengage rule only applies if you don’t use it to have the last word in the matter.

Also, while some hexbear posts may sometimes contain nudity (though I have never seen any pornography on there and it’s probably not even allowed), it should be labeled as such. Anything potentially triggering or unwanted should have content warnings in the title.

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The pictures were uploaded in 2016, so the service mistakenly thinks that it happened that year, when in fact it was taken 195x and just uploaded decades later.

Didn’t Microsoft just recently get a law suit for such practices or am I mixing it up with Google (who now can’t pay Mozilla anymore to ship their browser with google as the default search engine)?

That’s weird, because it also has 2 downvotes for me at the moment (which means it can’t be some weird federation issue), but assuming that you originally saw 2 downvotes before I came along, then something something can’t be right because I am one of the two downvoters and I only saw the comment some hours after your comment in this thread (judging from the timestamp of my comment) (or maybe I visited the post once, then came back to leave a comment?).

Is it still -2 for you though?

It’s two downvotes (at least on lemmy.ml at this point in time). Is it hard to imagine that 2 out of 16 people could dislike seeing someone say that anything that doesn’t fit their narrative is the result of bots?

What makes you think it isn’t just real people?

Comments are super useful but soooo overused

I think overusing comments is a non-issue. I’d rather have over-commented code that doesn’t need it, over undocumented code without comments that needs them. If this over-commenting causes some comments to be out of date, those instances should hopefully be obvious from the code itself or the other comments and easily fixed.

That code was C++ or something like that. Not GDScript.

I tested this on Godot 4.2.1. You can write identifiers using a different writing system other than latin and you are allowed to have emojis in strings, but you aren’t allowed to use emojis in identifiers.

I think they exclude some unicode characters from being use in identifiers. At least last I tried it wouldn’t allow me to use an emoji as a variable name.