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Re:NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen by y-curious on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:13AM (#36327209)
I didn't know there was a name for this, what a fun Wikipedia rabbit hole[1]. Pretty entertaining that censors still don't get it right decades later.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

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Re:NPM won't publish packages containing the word keygen by Dwedit on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:41AM (#36327641)
The solution is to examine all words that contain that substring and explicitly whitelist them.

Nowadays though, we have a different Scunthorpe problem. I call it the "Hidden Garfield" problem, because that phrase is detected as a racial slur after you run Double Metaphone on it and throw out spaces.

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