Notices by Alain Dellepiane :eit: :pm: (aran@localization.cafe)

-Hi Facebook, we're trailrunners based in Japan, this is our group account
-Nice, here is a random video of a lady runner crouching on the start line
-Uh, ok...
-Here is a a lady diver in a tight suit stretching
-What?
-Here is a lady vaulter ready to start, gently stroking her long pole
-Please stop

@aral Makes sense. By letting Trump into power you will measurably worsen the life of minorities, endenger democracy in the US and weaken world stability. But at least you will save Palestine. No, wait...

@ploum @mozilla

What's really worrying: it jeopardizes a truly independent Linux future.
Browsers are increasingly the heart of any operating system. If Firefox falters, we will all be at the mercy of Google, no matter what we use...

Really wishing there was a way to tell clients that when I disagree with them, I'm less of an artist fighting for their vision and more a plumber reminding how putting a toilet on the ceiling is really a bad idea.

@roadriverrail @arstechnica

Code would definitely be messed up. 😄

As for the damage, text files are way more minimalist: there's much less data to play with and everything will be parsed directly by the users instead of being a luminance value we barely recognize.

Still, random invisible noise multiplied by all the streamlining and reworking happening in LLMs could lead to fun results. It would definitely be fun to investigate.

@roadriverrail @arstechnica

Conceptually, it shouldn't be too hard too hard to randomly mess up text with Unicode equivalents, invisible characters and the likes.
Something like Wordpress could trivially do it with a plug-in.

Ⅼiκe thís

(Roman numeral l, Greek kappa, non-breaking space, zero width space, acute letter i)

https://gist.github.com/StevenACoffman/a5f6f682d94e38ed804182dc2693ed4b

https://github.com/codebox/homoglyph/blob/master/raw_data/chars.txt

@roadriverrail @arstechnica

Now that I think of it, any visual discomfort could then be ironed out by using a custom font that, say, just has k instead of Greek kappa.

Yes, this will mess up with text readers for the blind, and has a lower compatibility with older browsers, but conceptually it can work, especially if randomized.