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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 41 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There was an iPhone user who got locked out of his device because the pin pad Unicode changed and one of the characters he used was no longer available. I forget what language he used, I want to say Serbian but am likely misremembering that.

[–] msfroh@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an "s" with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn't part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an "s" with a cedilla.

I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

I think you are correct about it being Romanian, because I think it was an s character. I tried looking for the article so I was not going off memory.

[–] beyoublahaj@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have to assume it's the cyrillic alphabet, surely apple isnt so stupid they manage to mess up the unicode of latin characters?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

surely apple isnt so stupid

I'm just gonna stop you right there..

It's a marketing and design company with delusions of competence with regards to most other things it does.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

As an IT guy who have sat through start up wizards on iOS thousands of times on every iPhone since the 5S, you are absolutely right, the last few iPhone models have really made the setup wizard a terrible and bloated experience.

To whoever at Apple decided that the eSIM setup should come after the Apple ID screen, go take a barefoot walk on LEGO and think about what you did!