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Yes, its called Algorithmic Supression. That doesn't sound as cool and victimey though.
How about Algorithmic Oppression
AlgoOped
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Wow. I think I've used your circle generator on that other site without realizing it. That sucks. I've bookmarked yours now!
A bunch of sites popped up hosting it loaded with SEO garbage and ads. I’d licensed it MIT so while they certainly can, it sure doesn’t feel nice.
I've writing and freely shared a lot of OSS code and I plan to continue doing that. All MIT licensed.
But I keep thinking that this is a limitation of MIT. It's written with the purest of good intentions but without any way to prevent bad actors from exploiting that.
I wonder if there's a better kind of license that provides a close level of freedom but would prevent some of the most obvious exploitations (e.g. packaging and selling the code, or reposting on a site with advertising)?
There's copyleft licensing like LGPL but perhaps that goes too far in the other direction and besides, it seems to be very unpopular amongst web developers so I'm afraid if I release any LGPL code it won't get used much or attract contributors.
Is there a happy medium between these?
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XSLT is a template language where you match snippets of XML using XPath expressions and output... anything else, in this case HTML using templates that can make use of the attributes, inner content, etc. of the captured XML portion. "An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age."
> "An elegant weapon for a more... civilized age." One of the ideas people had back then was having a product catalog in XML that your tool would give you, and that you could upload to your website and display as a nice website via XSLT. It was such a fascinating technology when I learned about it, but I’m not sure if it ever saw any serious use? Maybe in enterprise?
I don't know if that's related to your question, but I've used XSLT templates with Apache FOP before to render PDF documents.
Re: I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing
#65I may have found the answer, and I've seen this before (it happened to me once). It's when a different spam site copies your content wholesale, and a search engine decides they're the "original" site, and you're the spammy copycat.
Because if you put the headlines (in quotes) from two of his recent articles into Bring, e.g. either "Megan Smith explaining the General Magic prototyping process" or "Denialists, Alarmists, and Doomists", both point as their first result to a URL starting with "https://www.scien.cx" which seems to be the spam site with a copy of each article. (The URL isn't loading right now, however, when I try to visit.)
How to fix it really depends on what techniques they're using to mirror your site, of which there are many.
Example search and resulting URL:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22Megan+Smith+explaining+the+...
https://www.scien.cx/2022/12/25/megan-smith-explaining-the-g...
Compare with Google getting it right:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Megan+Smith+explaining+th...
https://daverupert.com/2022/12/megan-smith-general-magic-pro...
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Elon wants to redefine the term as well but for the purpose of a coordinated witch hunt. People like using shadow ban because it sounds more malicious vs. content that is no longer actively promoted by a company. It's hard to claim you're a victim if the reason is you're just not that interesting or popular.
He’s kinda Trump-esque in his willingness to just redefine words (and basically pretend the original use never existed) to his own benefit and have his followers jump on board. Another great Elon example of this is Tesla’s “Autopilot.”
Trump-esque? what words has trump even done that for? Changing the meaning of words to fit what you want has been happening long before the printing press even was invented by people in power, vying for power, reporting on things they have a biased interest in or just wanting a quick win on an argument. Not everything needs to be a trump analogy.
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#67This is not a shadow ban. A shadow ban is when it appears to you that you are not banned, but from others perspective you are.
Is there also a term for being algorithmically suppressed on a social media platform, I wonder? I.e. a much more subtle, harder to dectect mechanism whereby the algorithms ensure you get some exposure, but never the same as other unsuppressed people would get based on similar activity. Or only exposure to a certain limited subset of the graph based on some metrics (e.g. just your 'friends' so no one points out you ar…
I believe Musk when condemning old twitter for doing it and deboosting when he promises new Twitter will do it.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
He’s kinda Trump-esque in his willingness to just redefine words (and basically pretend the original use never existed) to his own benefit and have his followers jump on board. Another great Elon example of this is Tesla’s “Autopilot.”
Trump-esque? what words has trump even done that for? Changing the meaning of words to fit what you want has been happening long before the printing press even was invented by people in power, vying for power, reporting on things they have a biased interest in or just wanting a quick win on an argument. Not everything needs to be a trump analogy.
Trump popularized the term “fake news”, generally meaning “real news I don’t like”.
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#69I may have found the answer, and I've seen this before (it happened to me once). It's when a different spam site copies your content wholesale, and a search engine decides they're the "original" site, and you're the spammy copycat. Because if you put the headlines (in quotes) from two of his recent articles into Bring, e.g. either "Megan Smith explaining the General Magic prototyping process" or "Denialists, Alarmist…
What should you do when another site copies your content like this then?
Re: I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing
#70I may have found the answer, and I've seen this before (it happened to me once). It's when a different spam site copies your content wholesale, and a search engine decides they're the "original" site, and you're the spammy copycat. Because if you put the headlines (in quotes) from two of his recent articles into Bring, e.g. either "Megan Smith explaining the General Magic prototyping process" or "Denialists, Alarmist…
What should you do when another site copies your content like this then?
You send a DMCA.