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That must be the complex cynicism you were describing.

Is it just me or has there been a strong game of openly advocating violence on PD lately? If so, is this wise? Because it is exactly what I'd go for if I wanted the community silenced and the forums taken down.

Just to be as clear as I feel comfortable with: I'm not saying that Nazis shouldn't be punched. I just won't be able to house more than two or three Discordian refugees from overseas.

Works like a charm! Subshells and how they behave have always been some kind of black box to me. I still don't get why a subshell is needed if the input has an unknown length. Thanks for making my script work and for the search terms I can use for further research.

I want to automatically replace html entities by their according characters in bash. For example, the string "Fremdsprachige Bücher" should become "Fremdsprachige Bücher".

The function should take any string as input and replace any html entity in it by the character it represents. It will use the file "html_entities.csv" as a lookup table, which looks like this:

Code (html_entities.csv) Select Expand


...
upsilon;υ
Uuml;Ü
uuml;ü
weierp;℘
Xi;Ξ
...


This is the script so far:

Code (sanitize.sh) Select Expand


sanitizeHTML() {
OUTSTRING="$1"
cat "html_entities.csv" | while read LINE; do
  IFS=';' read FROM TO <<< "$LINE"
  MATCH="&$FROM;"
  while [[ $OUTSTRING =~ (.*)$MATCH(.*) ]]; do
    OUTSTRING="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}$TO${BASH_REMATCH[2]}"
    echo "DURING LOOP IT DOES THIS: $OUTSTRING"
  done
done
echo "AFTER LOOP IT DOES THIS: $OUTSTRING"
}

sanitizeHTML "Fremdsprachige B&uuml;cher"


But the output is this:

Code Select Expand


DURING LOOP IT DOES THIS: Fremdsprachige Bücher
AFTER LOOP IT DOES THIS: Fremdsprachige Bücher


The replacement seems to work during the loop, but why does $OUTSTRING contain the original html entities after the loop? I'd like to solve this without grep or sed by the way.

Eris. The last time I shouted out your name loud, my beard caught fire. Was there some spiritual meaning behind this or did you just want to remind me you were able to?

Hi. As a Kekistani who is in exile and fighting on the front lines of the on going World War: Meme, I remembered my time spent reading the Discipline Discordia and the BIP and it occurred to me that in many ways Kek seems rather Erisian.

Explain how you came to that conclusion.

However, upon coming to your discussion board, as a humble meme farmer, I am disappointed to see very little discussion about The God Kek.

Nobody farms memes. The memes use humans and maybe some birds as a substrate. Also, humble people tend to be hard to disappoint. You're constructing an inconsistent picture of yourself.

(Unless I just failed to understand how to use your search engine.)

It seems like you fail to understand many things.

I am very curious as to what the followers of Eris think about Kek. Yes, I'm leaving the topic rather open and not even asking a question because reasons. Please respond as to your thoughts on the topic as you see fit.

Your thread's title is a question. I've not heard of Kek as a God. While I usually welcome new Gods, I'm already sick of Kek and it's your fault.

Please have at least one nearby friend who can see how you're doing at any time.

Here are some ideas in case you choose to go undercover. I've not tested all of them.

Don't smile. Smiling makes them suspicious. Shouldn't be too hard not to smile amongst fascists anyway. As long as there's nothing specific to fake-laugh at, try to mimic a Moai statue's facial expression.

Roam some White Nationalist forums beforehand, so you'll have something to talk about just in case. It also allows you to piggyback on the "conspiracy" mindset you often find amongst them. You could, for example, claim that forum X is secretly run by far-left Socialists or something.

Maybe even contact that specific group beforehand and "join" them in order to gain their trust.

You could sneak your own flyers amongst theirs, with instructions on how to "join an underground Nationalist network" or "make your phone hacker-proof". Did you know that an Android phone starts formatting itself as soon as you type *2767*3855# where you normally type numbers? No warning messages. No confirmation. The factory reset starts as soon as you type the last character.

Hand out free cookies that taste awful.

Handing out white roses is probably safe, because one needs to know history to get the reference.

Bad smell has already been suggested. It's a subtle way to lower their chances of recruiting new members. Sneakily putting a stinking substance on their propaganda material could be effective. Butyric acid smells really bad.

Put on some annoying music, pretending to be dead serious about it.

Needs some considerable skill, effort, and/or money, but https://gizmodo.com/5829551/free-t-shirts-given-to-neo-nazis-contained-a-secret-message-after-being-washed

The setup of a lost hymn to Eris being dug out and leaked by archeologists is pretty neat.

What Cramulus said. I can't imagine a machine truly outsmarting its builder. Sure, it can process data faster. Sure, it can be very smartly instructed to find and correlate data out of huge-ass corpora. Sure, an AI will then develop its own language, but only because the builder told it to. As far as I know it has no will.

What concerns me more about AI is people forgetting the above. I can very well imagine dictatorships hiding their usual motives behind a "benevolent machine that outsmarts us all". While you could say this is already happening, the canon still goes more like "benevolent human experts/technocrats who outsmart us all, using data obtained by machines". This already flawed understanding of human responsibility could entirely be replaced by "SEZ MACHINE; U DUMB".

As soon as e-Nochian will be declared the new Holy Language of Truth, let's closely observe Their efforts of hiding their machine's exact inner workings. First, they will simply tell us that it's too complicated for a human mind to grasp. Then, others will build their own machines in an effort to explain the understandings of e-Nochian to us sacks of meat. There will be lots of lying and shit-throwing and probably wars about this.

One thing that's absolutely mandatory to do in order to prove to others how your own machine works is to show them the source code. So I guess Open Sourcers are the terrorists of tomorrow. The harbingers for this have been spotted for a while now.

These have all been produced by their according governmental tv stations by the way.

what are you a wizard?

Seeking out the highest voted comment will the majority of the time lead you to populist common denominator, not so bad on facebook, really bad on reddit. It's the equivalent of confirmation bias mechanism, and its why those sites do so well.

Both "likes" and "upvotes" have a dangerously ambiguous meaning. They say "I agree" and "I want others to agree" at the same time. Or, alternatively, "I saw this" and "I want others to see this".

There's a simple randomiser on the post count, Trip used to have a lovely randomiser that would add a random SI unit and select a random number for the post count, if I get a chance I will reimplement that.

There are a few others we changed, instead of friends list we have a nemesis list. And on the front page we don't have a welcome to the newest member, we have the community spiritual leader, which automatically changes as soon as someone newer comes along.

I always figured that the post counts on PD were somehow multiplied with a constant. But now that you say it I see primes everywhere. I'd love to see some more slightly confusing modifications like this.

I wouldn't necessarily agree that a lack of such a feature here is the cause of declining membership. I don't even know if membership here is declining - seems to have been a recent uptick now that we're fully sliding into Aftermath.

Membership here is indeed declining, as you can see at the bottom of this page: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?action=stats

I agree that the reasons for the decline may lie somewhere else.

You have to look on the bright side...think of all of the potential Batman/loony toons crossovers

That would be great. However, I wouldn't be able to legally watch it, because my ISP is not AT&T.