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I love this. I particularly like that arsenal is censored to a___nal.
They use an excellent voice-over actor, Dave DeAndrea to bleep out the errant F-bomb.
Lol, like how when it loads you see the hidden text and then it disappears. Another option might be better to process the text, swap out each letter with for example X — or even better a ID-key, then render the font you made. If you used the ID-key, you could even encrypt each key, tag them by type (spoilers, swear words, personal info, etc) - though for obvious reasons that would require server-side code.
Its the font itself doing the censoring, not some script, which IMO removes a good chunk of the 'neatness' of this solution.
I love this. I particularly like that arsenal is censored to a___nal.
Call of Duty has censored all input with a regex like this for as long as I can remember. I can't even name one of my classes "Assault" which isn't even viewable publicly. You would think it would be easy to add a whitelist for such a common word.
Why does the inspector and copy/paste only show * under the censored areas?
I have young kids and a large family. We all curse periodically. Instead of telling the kids that these are bad words, we told them they are adult words. As in, when you are old enough you can curse all you want, but as a kid you can’t. We felt that this was a more correct way to put it, and instead of making a huge deal out of them we instead taught them what is and what isn’t appropriate. You’d think this would result in them using those potty words all the time. Nope. I mean mostly no. Currently one of them asked one of the family members to stop using the word fuck because it makes her uncomfortable. The other one and I were playing Minecraft and I tried to explain the Nether to her as hell and she was like “wait is that a word I can say?” which led to us discussing when it’s ok and not ok to use that word. My girlfriend explained what “boss bitch” means to the kids recently in terms of dog mushing.
Some amusing stories: my oldest when she was in daycare made a pact with her classmates to go into the bathroom and say curse words because the teachers wouldn’t hear them in there. They even had someone on lookout when they did this. Words used were “poop” and “doodoo”.
That same kid when she was 4-5 came up to mom and asked “I really want to say a curse word”. Mom sent her to her room to say it no more than five times and come back. She did and that was that.
The other kid accidentally busted out with a periodic “what is this bullshit?” when she was much younger. She does not curse currently.
Words are words and censoring “bad” words is silly. You can’t censor meaning. “Fk you” is just as powerful a statement as “fuck you”. Especially if it censors words like “associating” or “Cummings” or “arsenal”. This is just fodder for the unnecessary censorship memes.
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Probably because the problem is named after it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
"In February 2004 in Scotland, Craig Cockburn reported that he was unable to use his surname (pronounced "Coburn") with Hotmail. Separately he had problems with his workplace email because his job title, software specialist, contained the substring Cialis, an erectile dysfunction medication commonly included in spam e-mails." Now that's just bad luck. It could've happened to any of us!
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> (This comment doesn't reflect well on me. Fortunately, this is a pseudonymous account.) If anyone thinks less of you because you simply know five swearwords, it's pretty much their problem.
Nah, not that. "in search of words containing fuck" — just not a very mature thing to do.
Find All “=“ Replace with “FUCK” Copy/Move Find All “FUCK” Replace with “=“
Also handy for updating words or names when word processing.
The choice dates back to my first computer - I remember replacing all spaces “ “ with “FUCK” and watching gloriously as the assignment I had written was slowly turned into curse word gibberish.
I tell myself I still do it because (especially capitalised) it does stand out as an error in a way other placeholders may not. But it’s mostly for the fun and cheap thrill - pretty sure only one client ever got a document that I had left fucked up in this way.
[Edit to add: Nothing pseudonymous about my account name, but I’ll fucking own it.]
This is very cute! But I wonder why the creator decided to special case of Scunthorpe and not more common terms like peacock
I live not too far from Scunthorpe and heard a story that Scunthorpe county council rolled out a new spam filter on the own email servers and no one in the council could sent any emails that day as they all got blocked. This was a few decades ago and I can’t find a source but there are references to the origin here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem