News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by javawizard on Thursday January 09, 2025 @01:37AM (#42642249)
In case any other Harry Potter nerds come along and worry their memory is completely failing them:

Albums Dumbledore says this in the books. Hermione only has this quote in the movie adaptations.

Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Thursday January 09, 2025 @04:28AM (#42643429)
>JK Rowling Airbrushed From Pop Culture Museum’s Harry Potter Display For “Transphobic Views”

https://deadline.com/2023/08/jk-rowling-airbrushed-from-pop-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday January 09, 2025 @05:15AM (#42643759)
Your Wikipedia link is very useful since it clarifies that Damnatio memoriae refers to exclusion "from official accounts".
Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:03PM (#42652031)
>Today's best known examples of damnatio memoriae from antiquity concern chiselling stone inscriptions or deliberately omitting certain information from them.

>The term is used in modern scholarship to cover a wide array of official and unofficial sanctions through which the physical remnants and memories of a deceased individual are destroyed.

Certainly not exclusively from official accounts. Not sure what your point here is?

Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by immibis on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:21AM (#42654043)
Why the scare quotes?
Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by palmfacehn on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:32PM (#42663316)
The quotes are from the article's title.
Re:Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow by johnnyanmac on Friday January 10, 2025 @09:49AM (#42656024)
Wouldn't call myself a nerd, but I was so confused thinking "isn't this what Dumbledore said to Harry when asking about Voldemort?"

Guess it just shows retention of books overrides movies, given that I've consumed both.