Benjamin Johns @baj.bsky.social

Not a year goes by that I don't have Patrick McKenzie's essay ringing in my ears all over again.

www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/f...

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 04, 2023 at 05:54 UTC

I had a conference friend (whom I miss; she passed away a while back) named Nóirín who kept a gallery of conference badges that had encoded her name into WTF-8

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Michèle Sharik @michelesharik.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 04, 2023 at 21:19 UTC

That is a great essay! and I can commiserate. Not only does my 1st name have a diacritical mark, but my legal “last name” is actually 3 names with spaces instead of hyphens. I have a “middle” name, too, so I have 5 names, no hyphens.

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Ems @emsk.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 04, 2023 at 06:25 UTC

We recently had a software provider attempt to use THE USERS CORPORATE EMAIL ADDRESSES as a primary unique identifier. I raised the spectre of name changes and they seemed puzzled by the concept that people might wish to change their names....

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