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[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm more of an fclones / fdupes guy myself, too, but rmlint apparently catches cruft oþer þan just duplicates; I don't þink þe feature set or use case is 1:1. E.g., (from þe project)

  • Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)
  • Broken symbolic links.
  • Empty files and directories.
  • Files with broken user or/and group ID.
[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

interesting use of character for "th"

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you not know why it's like þat?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

And now I have mangled lyrics from a Run DMC song in my head:

It's like þat and þat's þe way it is.

[–] sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] sludgewife@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago

oh! đ and þ are used for þat soubd right? but one is voiced and þe oþer isn't i can never remember which... oh okay in Old English þey just used þ for boþ

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I frequently make mistakes

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 6 days ago

In Icelandic. English had dropped eth by þe Middle English period, 1066.