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Offline Matthew

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Font character changes on certain key words
« on: January 10, 2021, 05:38:28 PM »
I should have announced this earlier; apparently not everyone guessed correctly on what this is about.

I have made use of the forum software's "censored list" feature, but instead of censoring them to ***** or BLEEP, I'm simply changing them to a scrambled version of the actual word. Because I'm not looking to censor these words -- just make them unreadable to search engines and computer bots. I'm using greek and other foreign letters in such a way that the words can be easily read and understood by humans, but not machines.

To a machine, farm is spelled f-a-r-m and nothing else. I could have a whole page talking about farmers farming on their farms, but if I spell farm just ONE LETTER different, for example

fαrm (that α is the greek letter "alpha") then all software and algorithms are COMPLETELY befuddled. A text search for "farm" would return 0 results.

(And people worry about AI being "mankind's last invention -- the one that will replace/destroy us all!" don't make me laugh!  Computers aren't any smarter today than the first computer ENIAC -- the only difference is processing power. That's it. Fundamentally they have ZERO intelligence and ZERO ability to rationalize or intellege anything.)

I need to correct the so-called violation on the main page -- for "dangerous or derogatory" content -- still don't know what the heck they're talking about. Eventually I will figure it out, and I'll let you all know what the magic word was!

Thank you for your patience.

P.S.
Most websites use "keywords" in their link URLs, to help with search engine position. Unfortunately, that means the forum software is going to "break" those links when f-a-r-m is replaced with f-alpha-r-m. Again, computers require absolute precision. If you misspell 1 letter in a URL, you will get a 404 "page not found" error, because the server will be COMPLETELY befuddled. An ant is more smart than a computer.

There is no easy fix for this. My suggestion: Post the salient portion -- if not the whole article -- on CI as well as the original link. Most links are not going to get clicked, after my forum software mangles them. Users will have to manually repair the link by restoring the actual roman letters.

Re: Font character changes on certain key words
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2021, 08:24:47 AM »
What about Leftists   L E F T I S T S. There are those Greek letters again.

I have a brand new Dell computer with a new keyboard.

Must be Big Tech.


Re: Font character changes on certain key words
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2021, 11:49:15 AM »
I'm using greek and other foreign letters in such a way that the words can be easily read and understood by humans, but not machines.
This is a really annoying "feature". What's the point of it? I'm sure there are crawler bots that can decode it. Plus, it breaks pasted URLs.

Re: Font character changes on certain key words
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2021, 12:47:38 PM »

… I'm using Greek and other foreign letters in such a way that the words can be easily read and understood by humans, but not machines. …

[if you spell "farm"] fαrm (that α is the Greek letter "alpha"), then all software and algorithms are COMPLETELY befuddled. A text search for "farm" would return 0 results.

I have assumed for several days that the lookalike fonts were meant as stumbling blocks to thwart Establishment mischief makers, but I wasn't sure whether you used a clever algorithm to do the swaps or were doing it more or less by hand. I see now that it must be the former. My hat's off to you for devising character substitutions that don't render the text unreadable to humans.


… Computers aren't any smarter today than the first computer ENIAC -- the only difference is processing power. That's it. Fundamentally they have ZERO intelligence …

That's not what Hollywood says. Surely J. J. Abrams wouldn't lie to us!*
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Offline Matthew

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Re: Font character changes on certain key words
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2021, 12:58:45 PM »
I am doing the substitutions by hand. I can improve them over time -- replacing more letters with the "originals" as it were.

All I need is a enough characters to interrupt the word, so that the word they're looking for comes up "0" on my page.

Searches aren't smart enough to put 2+2 together. "Tr", a funny character that looks like a u, then a "mp" after that. I think most computers would be totally foiled by that, and wouldn't even suspect I just named the 45th president. Most searches work like your classic CTRL+F search, where you type in a word, and the browser (etc.) tells you how many are on the page.