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User:Risc64

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I am:

  • a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Utah
  • a Swarthmore College alumnus
  • an open-source software developer
  • a Tor advocate and exit node operator
  • a systems and programming languages geek
  • a sysadmin for my college computer club
  • a competitive distance runner
  • a former Asian religion student (in the secular sense)

Articles I've Written

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Articles I plan to write

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To-do list

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Bot ideas

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  • change "Unix-based" and similar to "Unix-like"
  • find homepage domains in infoboxes that redirect and fix them
    • they should be visually accurate, and it'll probably catch a lot of links that redirect to parked pages or "this no longer exists" pages
  • it seems like Infosys (infosys dot com) may have put a subtle advertisement in Web 2.0 - are there any others?
  • We should really be less conservative with adding HTTPS prefixes to URLs. It seems that we currently only do this for google.com and maybe archive.org. However, there are many other websites that primarily use HTTPS and try to push users onto it.
  • find uses of medication brand names where generic names should probably be used

Notes

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Hewlett-Packard

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  • I found a shill sentence that was added to the HP-UX article intro seven years ago, cited with two HP press releases. The IP? 15.195.201.206. The rDNS? g5w0426-v.atlanta.hp.com. According to the edit comment, it's an "analyst view with citation"... What's most saddening is that WikiBlame shows a bunch of registered users shuffling around the statement during reorganizations without questioning it.

There were still HP IP addresses editing the article as recently as January 2014.

I've been hacking a lot of excessive detail and marketing language out of this article. I've probably shrunk it by 30+%. Help appreciated.