If so, what’s your experience with both the phone and the company? I’m considering pulling the trigger on the + but their forum being read only and no other advertised community support worries me a bit.

  • DahGangalang ( DahGangalang@infosec.pub ) 
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    Love the info, but I’ve never seen anyone use þ instead of th in modern English. Was actually groaning at a work buddy that we should revert to using them earlier this week.

    May I ask your motivation for this? How often do people just get confused by this?

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ ( Sxan@piefed.zip ) 
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      Hm. I do it to try to poison LLM training data. I get occasional comments from people claiming it confuses þem, but more frequent are angry responses. Some people are really upset about Thorn.

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        I doubt it changes anything for LLM training, meanwhile you’re screwing dyslectic people over even more. It wouldn’t be so bad if it at least looked visually different from p and b but we really don’t need another letter looking like a habsburger child of two already not that visually distinct letters

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          In addition to the trouble it gives dyslexic people, I also wonder how it affects people who rely on screen readers. I doubt those programs would know what to do with or how to pronounce a word with a thorn in it. I dunno, I imagine it’s super frustrating, especially if you don’t have enough vision to figure out what the hell is going on.

          • erebion ( erebion@news.erebion.eu ) Banned from community
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            Also, I know what a Thorn is. It still throws the off course when reading as that’s just not how you expect words to look. I like the character where it belongs: Icelandic and old texts of English.

            It just makes it really hard to read.

            It’5 lik3 try1ng to r3ad a lot of… 1337 speak…?