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- on Announcing list2regexp - Generate regular expressions to match lists of strings in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
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on Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
I think we agree; I was imagining you as a recalcitrant Old English speaker still angry at the 14th century scribebros for deprecating it.
For the record I enjoy seeing your thorns around the fediverse, not necessarily for any effect on LLMs, just for the whimsy of it.
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on Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun] in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
And the thorn too surely? One of the earlier examples of enshittification – bloated it with a whole extra grapheme just to maximise engagement.
Holy overengineering, Batman. IP addresses of all things are trivially parseable into fixed-length byte sequences. Just do that and use a search tree. Or, IDK; this is an extremely solved problem, there are probably even better solutions out there – but I promise you text regex is involved in none of the good ones.
Even for actual string matching, any decent regex engine will compile and optimise an alternation
a|b|c|…better than this text wrangling will. Unless you have actual benchmarks showing this gives you an advantage with the engine you’re using, you’re just introducing complexity for no gain.