Lady of Misrule @Lady@cat.family

i used to respect journalists but not since, like, 2018

ActivityPub could have been abbreviated TP

thinking about it, it is kind of weird that we make acronyms based on the first letter of the first syllable, not the first letter of the stressed syllable

otherwise, seven new scripts were added, and a ton of work was done on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which continue to be a real challenge to encode

Unicode has added a new data file, DoNotEmit.txt, which collects information about characters and character sequences which “should not” be generated in newly authored texts and for which suitable alternatives exist

lots for legacy computing once again in this release, including:

• a whole host of missing characters for Amstrad CPC, Apple II, TRS-80, Sharp MZ, Sharp X1… <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf>

• five symbols for Smalltalk <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.pdf>

also new in Latin: capital ram’s horn; capital and lowercase S with diagonal stroke

Unicode originally designated these characters, proposed in 2023, for a 17.0 release, which is a frankly glacial pace and i’m glad people succeeded in getting them to move it up

most importantly to me personally, Unicode 16.0 comes with U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA, U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA, and U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE

these letters are siblings to the long‐encoded character, U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE. they originate with an American phoneticist notation and are used as part of the orthographies for many Salishan and Wakashan languages, spoken in the Pacific Northwest

see the proposal for more details: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-three-latin-additions.pdf

wake up nerds, new Unicode® is out

baldur’s gate has really good writing but thankfully i could not care less about the worldbuilding of the forgotten realms so i don’t have to get fannish about it

i don¦t stream but i would do a letsplay

do you think i will finally beat baldurs gate 3 before the new zelda comes out

yes i know Cohost did not actually aggregate RSS feeds, what it did was worse

if Cohost had features other than this feel free to let me know in the comments

anyway, if you used to be on Cohost and want a different site which is just a glorified RSS aggregator plus comment functionality, Dreamwidth is still up

suburban-ass motherfuckers talking about Mastodon like it’s a bad thing our communities aren’t bankrolled by anonymous benefactors

when you’re trying to accomplish something that doesn’t make money, you don’t get the good fortune of getting paid for it

unless you’re Cohost for three years!

S·P·D·X versions their R·D·F vocabulary?? 😬