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

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

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years 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??