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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Still better than automatically converting :) to 😃

[–] [email protected] 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??