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[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is this possible? Some random gal's github shows up?

[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 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??