https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/us/politics/us-bases-alert-level-russia.html

https://archive.ph/laVgN

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    It's the thing where similar-looking letters are taken from other alphabets to make fancy looking letters. The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it's lowercase Sigma.

    Ironically, given Yog is a Russophone and people do this with Cyrillic all the time, much to the chagrin of those who can read Cyrillic.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      A very mean, and sometimes fun, trick to play on others in a collaborative programming environment is to randomly replace semicolons with Greek question marks and watch them slowly descend into madness during debugging.

      • D61 [any]
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        5 months ago

        Captcha: Type these letters (and its just ones, capital I's and lowercase l's in that font where they all look the same)

    • Tomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      The not-O there is a Greek letter, for example, specifically I think it's lowercase Sigma

      As a person with a math degree (meaning that I'm an expert on the Greek alphabet), I confirm, that is lowercase sigma.