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The erasure of Luigi Mangione (substack.evancarroll.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dexa_scantron@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Right now, on Stack Overflow, Luigi Magione’s account has been renamed. Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

This appears to violate the creative commons license under which Stack Overflow content is posted.

When the author asked about this:

As of yet, Stack Exchange has not replied to the above post, but they did promptly and within hours gave me a year-long ban for merely raising the question. Of course, they did draft a letter which credited the action to other events that occurred weeks before where I merely upvoted contributions from Luigi and bountied a few of his questions.

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[–] poo@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Stack Overflow fucking sucks, it's dead.

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[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a mirror for Stacks content? I've been concerned for some time that they are a vital resource that a corporation could ruin at any moment.

[–] 486@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You can download pretty much all of stackoverflow as ZIM files for self-hosting.

[–] solomon42069@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've looked into this but they aren't exactly small, it's not a straightforward operation for even the average developer or systems engineer to restore these into a working format.

I was thinking we need something along the lines of a read only public mirror run by the proper open source community - e.g. SourceForge or a major Linux project.. ISP's and universities offer mirrors of Linux packages so this could be a resource offered in the same vein. That's my line of thinking as far as a StackOverflow mirror goes anyway!

[–] 486@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Of course they aren't small, but they are probably as small as it gets, since they are pretty efficiently compressed. I am not sure what you mean by

it’s not a straightforward operation for even the average developer or systems engineer to restore these into a working format

since it is really trivial to use them. Just load them with Kiwix and serve them as a website. It doesn't get much easier than that.

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[–] pencil_nerd@mander.xyz 25 points 1 day ago

Stack Overflow seems to be doing a prompt job of that already

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Despite having fruitfully contributed to the network he is stripped of his name and his account is now known as “user4616250”.

Inspector Javert aah behaviour.

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