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timkr.home.xs4all.nl 3y ago

“I Was Tortured in the Pasadena Jailhouse” by Bobby Fischer (1982)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Why is dark mode so bad in browsers?

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www.industryweek.com 3y ago

Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Where can I go to see flagged posts?

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twitter.com 3y ago

Has tiktok_us been breached?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: IPv4 mass scans – do many Cloudflare customers pay pointlessly?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Why do you trust electronic voting machines?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Setting up “Ask to Connect” mode firewall at router level?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How are fake AirPods spoofing the special interface on iOS,why no auth?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: Microsoft forgives malware? Node-ipc virus writer not banned GitHub

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: Cloudflare prevents transfer-out of domains, sets to 'pendingdelete'

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Today is Route66 Day, any way to disable nonsense holidays on Google?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: If you had to preserve digital data for 100 years how would you do it?

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github.com 4y ago

New Open Source Script Turns the Windows Taskbar Black (#000000)

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It’s at a 2004 resolution at sub 2004 FPS and the title is clickbait claiming it “runs”, sorry but 28 FPS isn’t considered playable in my book. I’m just not as impressed by that as people pretend I should be. They should have waited and at least gotten a solid 60 before this should’ve been shown off. The sad state of the Apple (and Microsoft too) reverse engineering scene has been obliterated by lawsuits and this whole Asahi Linux thing is a fluke that someone hadn’t got shut down yet. It actually saddens me what shambles the Apple RE’ing scene is for it to be taking this long to achieve only this meager level of support. Seemingly only 2 or 3 people in the world are working on this? For the most powerful laptops in the world?

There should be a way to decouple the UX from the program and if people want a Discord “skin” for IRC that looks nearly 1:1 they should be able to have that.

If someone independently invents something using the available resources at hand it shouldn’t be able to be considered classified or copyright restricted, if it was really that advanced and sophisticated then nobody should be able to discover it unless it leaks. If there’s no proof it leaked to the public in violation of a government employee’s oath then the information should be legal. In that case I agree anyone who leaks classified documents should be charged for treason. But there’s a major difference between a software developer accidentally inventing a banned algorithm and getting slammed with the full force of the government and secret information the government has being leaked.

Why are developers still limiting themselves by posting their code on the clearweb in a manner they can be traced and held liable for? Host everything on Tor from a server outside USA jurisdiction and this should be a total non issue. Code is speech. It’s time to stop letting the government get away with trampling on our 1st amendment rights to free speech.

People can still get your ip and ddos you on discord. its just a little expensive. theres a forum where you can pay $500 for someone to send an EDR to Discord from a police email. Also there was a file attatchment bug in the wild that leaked your ip as recently as 6 months ago which im not sure was even fixed. A guy I befriended in a hacking community proved it to me.

The purchase of twitter for $44b will be known as the most expensive corporate mistake in history. He's aleady chased away most of his advertisers, pissed off both sides of the political spectrum with his selective enforcement of rules, and clearly he's reneged on the whole idea of turning Twitter into a "public square" as theyre still taking down legal free speech. His ship is sinking. fast.

Of course, why would government operatives need a backdoor or even bother sending you secret takedown requests when the process to silence any user is way easier than anyone had imagined? just proxy up a few fake accounts on residential IPs to flag the post and then complain to you a few times!

Furthermore, if all it takes for you to take away someone's posting permissions is a few flags/complaints (That anyone with a bot farm who operates multiple accounts can submit) you should really grow a fucking spine. Thanks for confirming that government operatives can infact silence any user here, just the mechanism is a little different than I originally hypothesized, instead of having a backdoor throttling permissions all they need is a few proxy accounts instead, amazing!

your account lost submission privileges for a different reason: you were posting a plethora of unsubstantive Ask HNs that users were flagging

Well that's a convenient explanation. But doesn't make any sense. On the day I "lost my submission privileges" I hadn't posted any Ask HN which had been flagged or could even be remotely considered unsubstantiated for at least 11 days. I already stopped talking about those topics entirely. (Not that I believe any of my posts were unsubstantiated, as they all affect internet users and the future of the internet at large) I lost it directly after posting a story critical of the US government(which got 80 points) and then was retroactively punished for posts I made in the past. Is that how this works? When you want to take someone out you look through their history for something they submitted weeks ago in the past and use it as your justification to ban them in the present?

Im able to post but it doesnt appear for other users. the link appears on my profile when Im signed in but others cant see it. the posts dont have a "discuss" button or unique url at all. I havent asked yet, but the timing does seem awful fishy, immediately after posting a popular controversial submission.

IKEA probably thinks they own that particular color scheme(big yellow letters on a blue building). Similar to how Deutsche Telekom(T-Mobile parent) thinks they own a particular shade of pink and sends a c&d to any webmaster who so much as uses that HTML color code as a background tag for an unrelated blog. The only way to have a semblance of free expression on the modern internet is using Tor,cryptocurrency,and offshore hosting to protect your identity from these overzealous legal firms.

This can be accomplished on Windows11 with a custom Visual Style. Ive seen it done before on some deviantart themes. Would be cool if someone could release a stock Windows11 Visual Style with only this modified.

Why are you framing this as a hypothetical scenario? They’re already doing it, and have been doing it.

There is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use. At the time of writing, the “content request system” at facebook.com/xtakedowns/login is still live. DHS and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, did not respond to a request for comment. The FBI declined to comment.