I suppose it is a woefully underutilized glyph, isn’t it? I consider it very important, and make sure to check any typefaces I download, to ensure it’s designed before using them in creative projects. While it didn’t become mainstream, I love letting people know it exists through writing when an opportunity arises.

Exactly, they’re usually pretty easy to add if you want to. I totally understand most folks don’t talk so formally when in informal settings, but the em dash thing is hardly the smoking gun paranoid people want it to be. A lot of the “tells” by themselves are just punching at competent writers; it’s the same thing that happens to visual artists, or musicians, or anything else creative. You can try and find several tells at once—and sometimes you do—but it tends to boil down to glorified witch hunting, rather than something of substance. People want desperately to be able to just know something is AI generated on vibes alone. It’s not always going to be that easy, and most aren’t the sleuths they believe they are.

It depends on the keyboard, and the software. I’m using HeliBoard on my phone right now, and all I have to do to make an em dash is hold the dash key—that’s it. It’s actually quite trivial to add em dashes in various cases, and I wish folks wouldn’t pretend otherwise.

I also make use of other characters, like my beloved interrobang. I actually have that pinned to my clipboard, so I can paste it when it’s appropriate.

“You care about writing enough to use special characters‽”

“Yes.”

It was actually my bra’s trap, the trap that turns you into a bra. Easy to make that mistake.

You’re welcome, but you still gotta edit the source link in your comment!

The solution is actually to become a bird, as their tongues do not perceive that sort of spice.

Pondering the orb…

I also expect exactly zero legal repercussions, but the relevant parties are aware, abuse reports have been filed, and apparently the site is down now? I don’t want to check for obvious reasons, but I think the bare minimum should be him being blacklisted from his hosting provider, and potentially having his info noted to other hosting services, so he’s unable to easily spin up another remote server to do more malicious, and illegal antics.

Guess what? The site had hidden js which attempts to effectively DDoS Db0 with its visitors. I edited the link above to be the Lemmy post about it instead, but what a disgrace. Apparently it doesn’t work too well (thankfully), but the malware dev making more malware seems pretty par for the course.

Also his account, and seemingly his website where everything was hosted is this now. I imagine this is the final entry into this saga.

Edited due to malicious code on his website, amazing.

Is it too late to ask the host if the category is tools, or toys?

Irrespective of it’s apparent tooling, Tesseract is fundamentally compromised as software and cannot be trusted. When someone gets caught shipping malware in their project, you now have to start with the assumption of guilty until proven innocent. Anything less than a full audit of Tesseract, along with a hard fork and rebranding, is a liability risk for server hosts and users alike. Until such time that this occurs, it should be purged from every server ASAP. I’ve seen several threads of Tesseract being removed from instances, so hopefully this continues as others discover this absurdity.

I just use the combine key, then tap dash a couple times—boom, em dash. On mobile I just hold the dash key, like it’s genuinely pretty easy to insert them.

One of those accounts basically made some benign comments and posted Sonic art they drew to relevant places. Given that I’m surprised more users aren’t on there. Hell, I’ve literally drawn Luigi memes and wasn’t there, idk.

Thanks for the link, I didn’t know about this yet. So from what I gather, deploying malware on other’s servers so you can secretly control the narrative of what ideas can propagate is something “someone had to do.” Disgusting behavior, betraying trust and consent in one fell swoop for who knows how many folks and server owners that used the software.

I hope it didn’t matter even if it was written as a heartfelt apology, but hopefully the doubling down here further emboldens the complete removal of Terreract from Lemmy server stacks, and users’ willingness to utilize it in any capacity. This is obviously not an individual anyone can trust to run their code, and who knows what may be cooked up next—or is still waiting to be discovered.

To be fair, it’s a stand in for [effectively/basically/pretty much] vaporized. I obviously have zero trust in Tesseract now, but whether that sentiment persists into Lemmy as a whole is still up in the air. I’d consider it truly vaporized if zero instances host Tesseract in any form outside of the developer.

Of the two instances I know hosted the software, Blahaj removed it effectively immediately. That’s despite trying to resolve a software exploit in another service they host at the same time. Db0 still hosts Tesseract, albeit a forked version they modified, with intentions to swap it to something else down the line. I’m sure there are others hosting it too, and it’d be great if they all were indeed removed and replaced, ASAP.

Should’ve tried harder, like one of the two people from my instance who were blocked that…idk…drew some Sonic characters a couple of times and posted them in relevant communities? Should’ve been a real rebel like them!

If that fails, remember you always perform under pressure…about 1 atmosphere of it.

For the folks happening to see this here, there’s been more uncovered, in the form of a large external community, user, and verbiage shadow-ban list from the developer. This is separate from the hard-coded lists, as it is remotely downloaded by the front-end from their site. Again, this is all without your knowledge or consent, and intentionally obfuscates itself because the developer surely knows the users wouldn’t want to hand over that sort of control to someone else.

It genuinely does not matter what is being censored, this should not be happening under the remote control of a developer unrelated to the instance the software is being hosted on. This is malware, and acts as such because it knows you wouldn’t deploy the code as-is willingly. A developer willing to do this shows that the software is compromised, and cannot be trusted. Anyone running Tesseract should immediately remove it from their site, not simply for violating your consent here, but also for what could potentially happen in the future. An actively adversarial developer is not something you should need to concern yourself with in your server stack, and the trust in Tesseract is all but vaporized now.

Update #2: As an added bonus, the developer has decided to brazenly and mockingly double down on their actions.

I was looking for this answer before I wrote the same thing. If a part of my body has to be shot, why wouldn’t I be trying to rules lawyer my way out of serious injury? Take one long hair, tape it on something that can be safely shot through at effectively point blank range, feel nothing, success!