THEY’RE COMING FOR YOU NEXT YOU DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS. AAAAAAAAAAAGH

@Euergetes@hexbear.net (replying to your comment in the previous megathread):

Everything’s yaoi! (source: Twitter)

And if you really want to be clear, you might say “garden hose” (but usually it’s just “hose”)

If anyone actually needs to do this, just use Roll Call (it also has his tweets):

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/topic/social/

Counterpoint:

(honestly just looking for an excuse to post that clip, it always puts a smile on my face and makes my heart feel a bit lighter)

s/o to Korone for training me to instantly recognize the 圧あつ (“pressure”) kanji

c’mon y’all, exiftool -all= totally-raw-footage.mpg^[1], it’s not that hard

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Was reading a translation of some old Japanese developer interviews from 1994 (that site is a treasure trove if you’re into that kind of stuff, btw) when saw this bit from Nobuo Uematsu’s section that made me do a double-take:

When I started out, I did music for commercials, porn movies… I would take any work that came my way.

Imagine you’re watching some porn on VHS in the mid 80s and some One-Winged Angel-ass music starts playing. I wonder if anyone’s ever tracked it down. I assume he wouldn’t be credited with his actual name, but I imagine someone intimately familiar with his compositional style (especially in his early days) could probably identify it.

This is Kirby 64 erasure (but that’s fine tbh, I don’t remember it being particularly fun)

I’m trying to remember exactly what the topic was, but when I was searching for some info about art recently I ended up on some advertising hellsite where there were talking about how the market really responds well to the authenticity embodied by [art form] and how it can be deployed to increases sales blah blah blah. God I fucking hate marketers (insert (CW: suicide) Bill Hicks rant)

I actually did consider an encoding/decoding error as a possibility! I remember like 10 years ago my phone had a bug where all my text messages were showing up as garbled Chinese characters. Not sure why that particular emoji would become this random character, though. I doubt you’re as interested in this as I am, but if you wanted to investigate a bit more you could download another text messaging app (e.g. QUIK SMS on Android) and see if it renders the text message any differently.

I’m not disappointed—I love going down these little research rabbit holes! I learned a few new facts and discovered some useful resources that I can employ in the future, so it was well worth the detour.

I found it!!

Okay, I could have saved myself a lot of trouble by just going to the Wiktionary page for 仙 and seeing that your mystery character is listed as a derived character, but that’s hindsight speaking.

I thought about it a bit, and I realized that if you were able to see it rendered, there’s no way it was actually a PUA character, so that was a red herring. After unsuccessfully searching in a few online dictionaries, it dawned on me that I could just look at the master list of Unicode characters. Mind you, there are nearly ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CJK characters in Unicode, so I couldn’t exactly skim over them. Luckily, on the Unihan Database Lookup page they provide a helpful radical search tool. I rarely search by radicals, so I was a bit confused when I clicked on 3-stroke radicals and couldn’t find the water one used in the character, 氵—turns out that abbreviated radicals are still categorized with the stroke count of the original radical, which in this case is 4 strokes for 水. Once I figured that out, though, all I had to was select the radical, set the minimum and maximum additional strokes to 5 (since that’s how many strokes are in the non-radical component, 仙), and then scan through the ~200 characters in the results. And…bingo!

𣳈

I’m gonna be real—I still don’t really know what this character is. From this page and this page I was able to learn that it’s part of the Hong Kong Character Supplementary Set (and this character in particular is part of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B), and some pages only gave a Cantonese reading for it, so if I had to guess, it’s probably part of a place name or used in personal names in Hong Kong (or the Cantonese-speaking regions of China more broadly). Seems to show up a lot as part of the two-character compound (?) 潮𣳈, but it’s hard for me to understand more than that not speaking a lick of Chinese.

Also…none of this explains how or why a Japanese person would randomly produce this character with a standard Japanese IME. Still wish I could solve that mystery.

edit: here’s a bunch of sentences in which the character appears…again, gonna need a Chinese speaker to interpret this

I finished up The Case of the Golden Idol and really enjoyed it, but was a bit nonplussed by the hamfisted anti-communism at the end. Look up the developer and whaddaya know: they’re Latvian

Anyway, minor anti-communist silliness aside, I highly recommend it! It’s on sale for the next hour and half on Steam (i.e. until 10 AM PDT), and there’s also a demo available. I actually played the demo a while back and wasn’t completely sold on it, but the levels get much more engaging and complex as the game progresses so I’m glad I pulled the trigger and bought the full game. At any rate, there’s no need to rush to buy it since it goes on sale quite often (see: SteamDB, GOGDB) so you can just wait a month or two until the next discount. If you’re not hellbent on buying from Steam, I’d recommend waiting for the next GOG sale since there’s no DRM and the bundle with the DLC is a bit cheaper compared to Steam.

Might help to know where you found this, if possible. The character you pasted is in Unicode’s Private Use Area, so it’s not a standard character, and that’s why it’s not rendering properly on Hexbear—no standard font is going to have a corresponding glyph to represent it. It could be an archaic form or even a neologism, but I’m by no means an expert in either PUA usage nor hanzi/kanji so I’m just spitballing here.

edit: the specific codepoint is U+E00E, for what it’s worth

TIL that GitHub search only indexes the main branch! Didn’t need it this time because you told me what branch to look in, but now I know how to efficiently search across branches for future reference thanks to this StackOverflow post; for instance, I could have found the file I was looking for using the following command

# Search all files and folders in all remote branches
git branch -r | awk '{print $NF}' \
    | xargs -P "$(nproc)" -I {} git --no-pager grep -n 'setupTagline' {}

Here’s the relevant file, if anyone’s curious:

https://github.com/hexbear-collective/lemmy-ui/blob/0ad34285aa653fc438af475afc927f48b2032612/src/shared/components/home/home.tsx#L1124-L1133

Since you’ve worked on the site before, maybe you can point me in the right direction:

The function that actually creates the tagline (replacing CURRENT_YEAR, MOSCOW_TIME, and so on) seems to be hexbear_setupTagline, which is fed a random tagline from the taglines array):

return a.state.tagline = a.hexbear_setupTagline(
  null == (
    tagline = 0 === (
      taglineList = null != (r = null == (i = a.state) || null == (i = i.siteRes) ? void 0 : i.taglines) ? r : []
    ).length ? void 0 : taglineList.at(Math.floor(Math.random() * taglineList.length))
  ) ? void 0 : tagline.content
)

n.hexbear_setupTagline = function (e) {
  return e.replace(
    '<MOSCOW_TIME>',
    (
      o = new Date,
      r = o.getTime() + 60000 * o.getTimezoneOffset(),
      new Date(r + 10800000).toLocaleString().split(', ') [1]
    )
  ).replace(
    '<CURRENT_USER>',
    null != (
      t = null == (n = Nr.Instance) ||
      null == (n = n.myUserInfo) ? void 0 : n.local_user_view.person.name
    ) ? t : 'Someone'
  ).replace('<CURRENT_YEAR>', (new Date).getFullYear().toString()).replace(
    /<RANDOM:(\d+):(\d+)>/,
    (
      function (e, t, n) {
        return '' + (o = t, r = n, Math.random() * (r - o + 1) | 0);
        var o,
        r
      }
    )
  );
  var t,
  n,
  o,
  r
}

It’s not necessary to understand this particular snippet, but I was wondering where the corresponding non-obfuscated code can be found (if it’s publicly available). I checked the Hexbear GitHub but couldn’t find it in the JS client repository or anywhere else, which seemed odd. Is its absence related to this open issue?

Not that it matters, but if you do end up playing around with any of this logic, you could replace the fiddly time math with the more elegant code used for the sidebar clock (to be fair to whoever wrote said fiddly math, the features used literally hadn’t been implemented in Firefox yet when the site was born):

var date = new Date;
var moscowTime = Intl.DateTimeFormat(
  void 0,
  {
    timeZone: 'Europe/Moscow',
    timeStyle: 'medium',
  }
).format(date.getTime());

Thank you for your service (which, if I understand the changelog correctly, includes upstreaming taglines and custom emotes)! Open source development can be thankless work at times, but I appreciate the effort everyone puts in to keep this site running,

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