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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is this possible? Some random gal's github shows up?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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??