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> This website has no tracking or analytics The "\u263Eoe\u2721is\u271E" of online politics if I've ever seen. Nearly meaningless but people place great emotio
by darby_nine 2y ago
> This website has no tracking or analytics
The "\u263Eoe\u2721is\u271E" of online politics if I've ever seen. Nearly meaningless but people place great emotional and identity-based weight on it (even if they've signed away all their data via TOS, as they likely have).
Sidebar—why does hacker news fuck with arbitrary unicode codepoints? Strikes me as deeply user-hostile behavior.
- samatman 2y agoThis place would be utterly unbearable with emoji. The symbols you wanted to include are in the Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks, which I expect are all banned because they contain some emoji and this was the cheap way to be rid of those, quick test: "" "", that's a Miscellaneous Symbol and a Dingbat of no emotional valence to speak of and certainly not colourful ones. As you can see, that's the deal: they're casualties. I wouldn't mind a more discerning filter, but then again, I wouldn't mind a dark mode, and here it is, years later.
- darby_nine 2y ago> This place would be utterly unbearable with emoji. Evidently they've blocked far more than just emoji—I was just using standard unicode.
- petesergeant 2y ago> \u263Eoe\u2721is\u271E This is meant to be a representation of this image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coexist_(image) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coexist_(image) for people too lazy to copy and paste