of all the professions I expected to have their own symbols in unicode, I never would have guessed Dentistry.

[foone@digipres.club]

of all the professions I expected to have their own symbols in unicode, I never would have guessed Dentistry.

U+23BE Dentistry Symbol Light Vertical and Top Right
through
U+23CC Dentistry Symbol Light Vertical and Bottom Left

[foone@digipres.club]

I may have slightly slashdotted the site

[cadey@pony.social]

@foone slightly

[foone@digipres.club]

removed the link to a search on a unicode site

[foone@digipres.club]

@cadey yeah in retrospect having a bunch of mastodon instances automatically query a fulltext search results page was PROBABLY a mistake

[prmths@mstdn.plus]

Even as someone who doesn't care for Star Trek, it still pisses me off that we got *this* before the Klingon alphabet in Unicode.
@foone

[emily_s@mastodon.me.uk]

"Oh heck! prods down! What happened?!"
"We've had a 5000% increase in hits to our search endpoint!"
"what the heck? Where are they coming from? An AI crawller going mad?"
"Oh no! Worse! @foone posted a link! It's thousands of real nerds"

[jleedev@mastodon.sdf.org]

@foone https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/n2093.pdf has receipts from 1999

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@foone @cadey is this traffic caused by users all interacting with the link? Or the mere inclusion of the link causes fedi to try to crawl it something? (And when other instances are notified of the status too?)

[jernej__s@infosec.exchange]

@colinstu @foone @cadey Whenever you post a link to a site, every instance that the post federates to will try to fetch preview data from the link, so you can expect something like 300-500 requests within a few seconds, which seems to be quite a burden for many sites.