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Re:Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery by buildsjets on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:08PM (#34647033)
stylometry.net is hot garbage. Zero of the candidates that it identifies as being related to buildsjets are my actual alternate accounts. The DBCooper one is interesting, it sounds like a username I might use, but it's still not me.
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Re:Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery by ghaff on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:35PM (#34647369)
Stylometry is probably mostly useful if you have a small number of suspects with a decent-sized public corpus that you want to match against a book/set of blog posts etc. Even then it's just going to be statistical.
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Re:Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery by saurik on Friday February 03, 2023 @06:23PM (#34649284)
FWIW, none of those are even scored even slightly high, so I don't think it is claiming something horribly incorrect.
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Re:Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery by calderknight on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:03PM (#34650974)
And his actual alternative accounts may not have enough content to be included in the search.
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Re:Want anonymity? Make a persona not a mystery by sbierwagen on Friday February 03, 2023 @11:08PM (#34651403)
On the other hand, for me, both of the bolded accounts were indeed my alts.
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