Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
No idea and not sure if it’s right. They could be attempting to match something across whitespace or line breaks and gotten greedy. Or maybe it is just a string match and not regex and they pasted the wrong string, but that still feels weird.
I always called it the buttbuttination (of Lincoln) problem, heh.
I wonder if someone is learning a lesson about regexes on that instance. It would be very weird to replace the string ‘time’ on its own.
I went lemmy (very early, still with auto-refresh, etc.) for a very short time due to hating it to kbin, later mbin, and now piefed. I’m not sure if I like piefed better. I don’t care about mastodon or other similar platforms so that may change your decision.
I’m reading the command to the tune of Du Hast