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HyperSoop :neocat_floof_explode:‮

hey americans!!!

if your workplace suddenly requires you to get rid of "DEI" or "woke" keywords in documentation/webpages/etc., that's an incredible opportunity for malcompliance!

don't do it properly, don't adjust the wording around the removals to make sense or delete whole pages, no, just have the find & replace tool in your favourite text editor handle it.
Automatically run through all occurences of the keywords, including as parts of other words and such, and replace them all with:

- nothing or
- some obnoxious unicode character like ■
- an entire phrase like "this content has been redacted following an executive order"

The stupider everything ends up looking the merrier. Bonus points if you do it to the backups too

5 February at 11:48 | Open on wetdry.world
25 comments
Kevin Karhan :verified:

@soop or even better: Refuse to do so for "religious reasons" so all the cristofacist reactionaries choke on their copium as if it's a wedding cake!

6 February at 8:23 | Open on infosec.space
Dieu

@kkarhan @soop won't to, employer's religion trumps employee's.

6 February at 8:41 | Open on hespere.de
Kevin Karhan :verified:

@hllizi @soop fair point, unless one wants to get fired and take that as evidence for religious prosecution when filing for asylum...

6 February at 8:43 | Open on infosec.space
AJ Sadauskas

@soop Better yet, if you can: "THIS OFFENSIVE FREE SPEECH HAS BEEN CENSORED BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNMENT".

If not, just: "CENSORED".

If it's on a public facing website or internet-accessible document, email the link and a screenshot to a journalist at a publication you trust, using a burner email address.

6 February at 8:24 | Open on social.vivaldi.net
⠠⠵ avuko

@soop

Only strike specific words, don’t rephrase, search and replace with [EO.id]

Also makes it easier to recover.

6 February at 8:38 | Open on infosec.exchange
ProScience

@soop

"[redacted because white predominantly male fascistic snowflakes are scared of competing fairly against anyone else]"

6 February at 9:01 | Open on toot.community
bigiain

@soop I suspect there are ways you could display “this content has been redacted following an executive order" using Unicode homoglyphs to reversibly encode the redacted word.

64-ish characters, assume each has at least one Unicode homoglyph, encode zeros for ascii and ones for non ascii Unicode versions, you could encode 8 ascii characters, or a 64 bit number into an index of a censored word list…

When (if?) The Orange Shit Gibbon gets voted out, just run the reversing script over everything…

6 February at 9:07 | Open on aus.social
Anselm Schüler

@soop Maybe you could blank it out in a way that only removes it visually but retains it logically, like drawing a rectangle over it or setting the background color to match the text color.

6 February at 13:18 | Open on ieji.de
Alan Langford

@soop I propose the use of the following for describing diversity: Trans, Racialized, Unsexed, Multisexed, Poly or in acronym form: TRUMP (and TRUMP+) of course, including uppercase/lowercase variations.

6 February at 13:26 | Open on mindly.social
Dingo

@soop
Search & replace all non compliant words with "giraffe"

6 February at 13:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Nazani
Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

@soop
Replace the words and phrases with their translation in Spanish, if the order only specifically requires the removal of certain English text strings.

Re-order the letters of acronyms, e.g IED instead of DEI

Or ask politely to obtain translations in one of the indigenous languages of the land you're unjustly occupying and use them.

There are a million ways to be creative about noncompliance. Fascists hate creativity.

6 February at 15:19 | Open on mastodon.scot
Parsnicketty

@petealexharris @soop the reordering suggestion gave me a chuckle, ty

7 February at 0:56 | Open on mastodon.ie
Jenny Andrew
Old Man in the Shoe

@soop find and replace all pronouns with EXECUTIVE ORDER.

"Then EXECUTIVE ORDER mentioned to EXECUTIVE ORDER that EXECUTIVE ORDER is up to seeing EXECUTIVE ORDER..."

6 February at 18:35 | Open on mastodon.social
Nobody باچیز नास्ति (he/him)

@soop replace each instance with a unique word that will leave the sentences meaningful, if you're doing sabotage, do it well.

6 February at 23:21 | Open on mastodon.social
SuperMoosie

@soop

Or just change the word to be the same colour as the background text.

6 February at 23:22 | Open on mastodon.au
Carl-Henrik Barnekow

@soop Imagine all books where the story tells of someone waking up. Like “Yesterday when Billy ‘this content has been redacted following an executive order’ he felt something was wrong… “ 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

7 February at 0:05 | Open on mastodon.nu
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘

@soop Use bad spelling, then run a spellchecker. I knew of a woman who wrote some poetry she wanted published, but her spelling was bad so she got a spellchecker to correct it, and it ruined everything. Eg "wailing" became "whaling".

7 February at 0:09 | Open on theblower.au
Analog AI

@soop ... or your option, but saying (for example) "this three letter acronym has been redacted following an executive order", "this four letter adjective ...".

or option 2, but match the number of unicode characters with the number of deleted characters.

7 February at 0:33 | Open on hachyderm.io
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@soop Imagine doing a keyword replace into a codebase :D
"Hello, we're breaking the API because higher-ups don't want DEI anymore"
7 February at 0:36 | Open on queer.hacktivis.me
Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

@soop Turn every page into an HTTP 451. :blobfoxevil:

7 February at 0:45 | Open on bbs.kawa-kun.com
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