Doesn’t he live in Moscow? So it might just be due to the sanctions.

This one?

Be careful of the character limit on each viewer, as they can “trim” your title in the middle of some markup tag and just display part of it as the title.

Right, an original at Mosaic [Netscape] before it got into that fight with Internet Explorer, went open-source, and became Mozilla.

The original developer has a great blog, and has commented on this

Wikipedia can also be useful to find software - e.g.:

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_audio_player_software

or look at the Wikipedia page for whatever you want to replace and see if it’s in a category such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Audio_editing_software_for_Linux

You can even do this with things that aren’t software, e.g. Homebase -> UK home improvement stores -> Screwfix.

Would banning the voting half of the pseudonymous account not mitigate the immediate issue? Then asking their instance admin to later lookup and ban the associated commentating account.

unfortunately their current style guide results in this headline.

Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.

Politicians and public should consider quitting X, says Liverpool mayor

“The time is approaching where we’ve got to all examine whether we should, en masse, withdraw from it and for there to be a different platform”

iirc, the issue wasn’t so much SHY being used for its intended purpose, as byte 0xAD no longer being available for use as a normal character.

Imagine getting a game map file from the 80s in which lots of (more than 224) characters were used as block graphics, and you have a matching font. You open the “text” file with the appropriate font, and notice gaps in what should be a grid because all of the 0xAD are missing.

Effectively ISO-8859 and similar have become so common that it’s really hard to convince any modern system to treat “text” bytes as not following some standard in which the 0xAD becomes non-printable.

Fun fact: attempting to use an “old style” bitmap block-graphics font will make you notice one or two characters that are no longer usable in modern text display systems (e.g. word processors or browsers);

• non breaking space
• soft hyphen