10 seconds of googling indicates this is true for Windows and Mac as well. I haven’t looked specifically, but I’d be a little surprised if it wasn’t true for Android and iOS as well.

But really, why would they add rules to prevent people from using certain unicode codepoints in filenames? Should they disallow Klingon as well? Kanji? Of course not. Emojis are codepoints just like U+0061 is.

Of course there are good reasons to disallow things like newlines and forward slashes in Linux filenames, but what specifically would even be the argument for preventing emojis?

Not so theoretical, actually

Google “Zalgo Text.” You’ll get various converters. It’s not a font. It’s unicode shenanigans.

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I had to use Google Translate creatively to get this joke, but I’m delighted none the less.

Yeah, if positive was clockwise in trig, y = sin x would have a negative slope at x = 0, which I guess Albert Sine found distasteful.

(I made up Albert Sine. I don’t know that there’s anyone specific we can attribute the invention of trigonometric functions to. But I like to imagine him sitting at a desk scribbling right triangles by candle light and scratching his head as to how he’d go about actually calculating the sine, cosine, tangent, arcsine, arccosine, etc of various arbitrary values within his lifetime.)

Yeah, 0F° is close to leave-a-faucet-dripping-lest-your-pipes-freeze weather. Quite a ways below the freezing temperature of water at standard atmospheric pressure.

Lucky.

Back when I took trigonometry, they taught me positive was counterclockwise.

Just think how many pounds he’d have gained if he hadn’t been on Ozempic.

You should run for president. You’ve already got my vote.

If you haven’t seen this, I’m sorry and you’re welcome.

(SFW)

Shit man. I laughed out loud and my mom is right over there. ->

I had to make something up about what I was laughing at.

“A friend”, huh?

I’ll let you him know when I figure it out.

Just my guess here, but…

The desktop/laptop sort of form factor is associated in people’s minds with unlocked bootloaders. People expect to be able to install Linux on them if they want to. Tablets, game systems, and other sorts of consumer electronics, not so much. I’m thinking Microsoft will do what it can to push hardware manufacturers and the software industry as a whole more in the direction of the kinds of devices that consumers already expect to be locked down like tablets or game systems that are “streaming” game systems. And that way, the bootloader will prevent folks from switching to Linux.

Anything to shorten it sounds good to me.

So say we all.

In the U.S., a few years ago, GOP Senator Josh Hawley, one of the speakers who helped incite the January 6th insurrection, introduced a bill to make the term of Copyright 28 years with optionally one renewal for an additional 28 years.

And, it’s so weird to me that I could agree with him on anything really.

Mind you, he introduced that bill in an effort to punish Disney for being too “woke”. And the bill didn’t go anywhere. But I’d let the MAGA nuts use such a bill as an opportunity to crow for a few minutes about their victory over strong woman protagonists or whatever if it got us more reasonable copyright terms. (And honestly that’s too long, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the bullshit we have now.)

Also, fuck Sonny Bono.

Not in the U.S… For work-for-hire, It’s 95 years after publication. For works owned originally by a lump of flesh, blood, and bone, it’s 70 years after the author’s death.

I’m glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.

I’m being trolled and I ain’t even mad.

Be serious, please