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Just found this and thought this was interesting to share here.

Descriptive Introduction of the Silent Weapon

"Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected from a silent weapon by its creators, but only in its own manner of functioning.

It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of chemical reaction (explosion); originating from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman; under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general.

It makes no obvious explosive noises, causes no obvious physical or mental injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone's daily social life.

Yet it makes an unmistakable "noise," causes unmistakable physical and mental damage, and unmistakably interferes with the daily social life, i.e., unmistakable to a trained observer, one who knows what to look for.

The public cannot comprehend this weapon, and therefore cannot believe that they are being attacked and subdued by a weapon.

The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it.

When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up.

Therefore, the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses."

There are lots of fair use translations available here at https://www.crosswire.org/sword/index.jsp

including without limitation the rights to use

'use'...arguably the sole purpose of the API is to fetch the data.

You are grasping at straws.

found : https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news

Honestly the HN archive is very valuable. If you had it all on a local db with everything indexed you basically end up with a offline search engine.

Where is this archive located you speak of?

That made me chuckle but I guess if you have never seen one I could see how that assumption could be made.

If this photo is real I wonder what can be revealed about the approach they have taken by analyzing the architecture of what we can see.

crazy product. their test chatbot feels a db query.

https://chatjimmy.ai

On the other hand, it's never been easier to design a place that doesn't need those things, or be confident the javascript is on your side.

javascript, like tor, is powerful in both directions depending on what it's used for.

That wasn't meant to be an argument against other privacy protecting technologies. I'll take them all. Although you can't just compare apples to apples when you speak of close sources technology. I applaud apple for the long held stance of privacy protections.

And to be fair, tor comes at the price of speed. But convince isn't the only thing in the math equation here. Privacy basically boils down to a three part equation these days with the variables being Speed/Convenience.

A lot of that speed and convince can be made up for with being familiar with the tools and adapting to a new norm. The actual network speed isn't really that bad comparatively.

I found the signs to be hard to find and poorly placed.

But since I knew about it before traveling, I just said no photo please and it was pretty frictionless.

The people behind me did not even realize you could say no, and no one really wants to be late for their flight.

Make the sign bigger. Its not a good test in my view.

Yet the same technology that protects them, protects the everyday Joe.

The binaries do not discriminate.

These are the origins of Tor yes. The same technology that protects the spy, protects the journalist, or the citizen whose government blocked them, or placed a wall of ID verification checks.

I encourage everyone to learn about the origins. Even study these people and what they have said in the past. Don't for get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Mathewson.

Everyone should study the basics on a server backend and full stack web.

If you can master what it takes to design and run your site on localhost....you are literally one step away from sharing it with anyone on the planet who has internet access for zero dollars because of the power of tor, and the global network that supports it.

The reality is, there is no gate there, just the knowledge of how to do it.

Tor is first and foremost a router.

Sites that block tor IP's do happen, this is because of the dual use nature of the technology. Its also well suited for abuse.

Im sure a lot of people know about tor on this site...but let me remind everyone.

Tor is not for criminals. It's for you and me. And happens to be good enough that criminals use it too. This is the two sided nature of technology.

Tor is a networks of peers across the globe volunteering their network bandwidth to support people under oppression by their government.

The amount of privacy that can be gained from tor is proportional to the amount of people using it. The more that people utilize the technology, the more that everyone looks the same, and protects the people that need it the most.

Tor enables me to say no to these things and carry on, without permission.

I did it. It is awesome.

It's basically HN, but the entire backend is running on an old phone.

The world does want this. Opus capabilities, in a box, securely tunneled to my family and I utilizing the resources I already have available to me which is, energy + network.

Makes me think somewhere out there exists a tiny micro SD card worth potentially billions of dollars.

Cool. It's not obvious from the page if this syncs offline or not?

It should, and it would be a great feature to be able to search your indexed local DB.

the unexitable navigator bar is blocking the content FYI.

I agree with that. Platforms have continuously added more and more things to create accounts, and the history shows that people submit and give up pretty easily.

I think it's a jump to take that historic metric and expect the same results with ID verification...but we shall see.

I certainly don't know anyone in my peer group who would submit ID for account access. By the time the kids can finally sign up for there great shiny social media account with valid ID, hopefully something better has taken its place with roots pointing towards the old ways of the internet.

Yes, android, but I would also like it to work on any terminal ideally. Thanks for the pointers. I really like the HN simplicity and I want a way to have all that it is in a tiny form factor on a as needed bases.

I recently learned about onion services and for my use case it seems perfect. My use case would be setting it up for a few friends so I don't see a reason to not use it as speed isn't really that important and ideally I can still keep it somewhat private. Also, I just don't really know of a way to setup clearnet access very easily im still new to all this and don't have a great grasp of all the ins and outs of networking.

Except the difference is that towns are made of people and none of the people accepted the terms.

So it's even worse than Facebook.

Is this pricing based on the release of the 1988 Toyota pickup base price adjusted for inflation? It's almost spot on.

You would think we would have gotten more efficient with manufacturing and stuff.

I wanna see a bigger market distruption though.

Billionaires do your part give us this truck cheaper. Everyone needs standard pickup truck.

iMessage isn't a thing in Europe?

Neat tool. I always presumed this existed which is why I really try and speak in generalities and minimize details about myself if I can. What model are you using? How many tokens are we spending running a search?

This game is super fun. Thanks.

I often think about how entire blueprints can fit on a few MB's and how the decompression algorithm (construction) can turn those couple of MB's into a giant physical structure.

I wonder what lessons can be learned from this process to further improve text compression to the point where a few bytes can decompress into (maybe not lossless content) but lossless intent and meaning of the message.

The whole 'the repo is only 4 days old' isn't a good tell tale anymore unfortunately.

Unexperienced builders just use git as a save button.

Im not saying this is the right way to do things, but the measure of how much effort was put into something can't really be determined from the git history.

There are plenty of reasons to develop, then throw something over the wall, one being general privacy.

archive.is or mirrors still have archives.

But generally, that seems like a lot of power to be able to exclude yourself from an archive machine. Gotta ask yourself why they would want to have it removed.