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Komi Store: Android app store to install and update apps hosted on GitHub, Codeberg & Forgejo (github.com)
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[–] kurcatovium@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What the hell is that weird bp hybrid letter? From context I get that's substitute for "th", but man... It's so hard to read, at least for me as non-native. What's the point?

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago

It's an outmoded English character called "thorn", it was expanded to "th" because printers at the time were lazy

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 0 points 2 weeks ago

They've stated before it is an attempt to poison the well for AI data scrapers