this was fun! as a consequence, i have a very random question. i want to take a "device id" (a long unique string) and hash it into a single emoji. unicode code points for emoji are not sequential, so is the least-horrible way to do this to create a giant lookup table for thousands of emoji? i […] - ThreadSky

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deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy • 75 days ago

this was fun! as a consequence, i have a very random question. i want to take a "device id" (a long unique string) and hash it into a single emoji. unicode code points for emoji are not sequential, so is the least-horrible way to do this to create a giant lookup table for thousands of emoji?

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nemo.tatooine.club.ap.brid.gy•75 days ago

@deobald What’s with the device id as input though? Cant imagine a usecase.

deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy•75 days ago

@nemo ugh i responded on blue sky first like an idiot sorry

deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy•75 days ago

@nemo i've unfollowed my own bridgy so i stop confusing myself. i don't trust that bridgy reply to always exist, so here's the original reply, for posterity:

wrapping syncthing to abuse it as a lo-fi hole punching stack, of sorts. it will give me device names once the user has paired two […]

deobald.bsky.social•75 days ago

wrapping syncthing to abuse it as a lo-fi hole punching stack, of sorts. it will give me device names once the user has paired two devices, but only uuid-looking device ids until then. i want a stupid (and cute) identifier for matching machines.

(i don’t want the user to use syncthing directly)

abnv.me•75 days ago

@deobald use this: https://github.com/github/gemoji

deobald.fantastic.earth.ap.brid.gy•75 days ago

@abnv oh man... this is great, actually! i can't use a ruby lib directly, but i can definitely rip this off to generate a javascript doo-dad that does basically the same thing, but also provides a sequential list of emojis.

thanks!

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