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 bois - just run your application through the BLNS list and you would have caught this at the 9th entry:

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...

>  bois

Please don't do that here. The rest of your comment is just fine.

I'm curious: what is it that he has done? What does the odd glyph mean?

Visual gimmicks like "" (an apple character to designate Apple) are not in keeping with the text-based nature of this site, and "bois" is presumably short for "fanboys" which is flamebaity. These are markers of low-quality discussion which is a different band of the spectrum from what we want on HN.

It shows the apple logo on some fonts. See: https://codepoints.net/U+F8FF?lang=en

Damn dang you're omniscient.

It's just randomness seeming like nonrandomness.

I assume he has an alert on any non-text character.

*Dang dang :)

> "If you're reading this, you've been in a coma for almost 20 years now. We're trying a new technique. We don't know where this message will end up in your dream, but we hope it works. Please wake up, we miss you.",

Why is this piece of string considered naughty? Can't possibly harm any softwares. Might be harmful to wetwares though.

> Might be harmful to wetwares though.

I think that’s the point exactly

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