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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday December 17, 2022 @02:17PM (#34031137)
Perhaps the poster is trying to befuddle identification of their main account through stylography?

One can get quite paranoid on the internet, you know.

(I am not a dog).

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by fluidcruft on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:15PM (#34032317)
Nowadays people would probably just use GPT prompts and rephrase to obscure identity. Good luck reversing the output to deduce the style of the author's original input.
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by amelius on Saturday December 17, 2022 @05:38PM (#34033017)
Until OpenAI's logs get hacked and leaked ...
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by andirk on Saturday December 17, 2022 @08:07PM (#34034044)
I am quite confident that Satoshi Nakomoto was an Australian bloke(s) living in Japan when he/they/their wrote the Bitcoin Whitepaper. The code itself does suggest it was one person, but I still think it was a few people with one at the helm.
Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by CamperBob2 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:12PM (#34034725)
Likely. I can't find it now, but there was an HN story not long ago where someone used fairly rudimentary techniques to identify former/alt HN accounts based on stylometric similarity. It worked VERY well.

If I were going to post from a throwaway account for some reason, I would probably launder it through an intermediate language on Google Translate for one or two cycles. Otherwise, if I didn't bother with that, I'd certainly scatter some intentional errors here and there that I don't usually make.

Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by forgotpwd16 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:54AM (#34036869)
>there was an HN story not long ago where someone used fairly rudimentary techniques to identify former/alt HN accounts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016