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[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months 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??