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Context: Twitter is currently rebranding it self as X.com, which is the bottom logo. X.org is a FOSS implementation of the The X Window System which is being slowly replaced by the newer Wayland display server. Because of the Twitter rebrand Someone decided to make Wayland.social, to parody the X.org to Wayland transition.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so generic, the logo is literally on Unicode.

Don't believe me? I can just type ๐• out like this.. What's worse is that Google and YouTube and Wikipedia all pretend that it's just a regular X.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And for those wondering, it's a "mathematical double-struck capital x".

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I kinda wonder what makes it "mathematical"

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The fancy line that barely distinguishes it from any other X, capital or not or maybe with a wiggly line, so you get extra confused in your proof on line 13 or something.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In set theory, this style, blackboard bold is used to represent "special sets", for example the set of all integers

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Now I remember exactly what you mean

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Probably used in vector notation and gauge fields