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Anyone knows what the author meant by the "LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY" message? It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world

Anyone knows what the author meant by the "LIBERTY LIBERTY LIBERTY" message? It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world, big corps using his software for free, or something else.

jayski 5y ago
or the insurance company jingle
alessioalex 5y ago
He's a nutjob that blew up his own house while trying to make a bomb or something. There's even an article somewhere. It's not the first time he's being ..weird.
- lightlyused 5y ago
  I posted this earlier, but it got flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859476
- lightlyused 5y ago
  His twitter post. https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272
fault1 5y ago
The author of this package was caught with 50lbs of Potassium Nitrate (in the middle of NYC) and a bunch of materials on making bombs and booby traps when his apartment caught fire: https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/6425363/ https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64... https://www.qgazette.com/articles/more-charges-possible-for-astoria-bomb-suspect/ https://www.qgazette.com/articles/more-charges-possible-for-... https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-suspected-bomb-making-materials-charged/ https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-susp... He might have been the unibomber in training. Don't want to pile on, but dude clearly seems to be going through mental issues.
- superkuh 5y ago
  - xg15 5y ago
    Sorry, this is bullshit. > When investigators entered Squires' apartment to look further, they found more bomb making items including potassium nitrate. Magnesium powder, sulfur powder, copper powder, aluminum powder, hobby fuse and mixing cups were also discovered in the home. "The chemicals separately are what they are, but taken together they can assemble an explosive device," Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said. "There were books about military explosives, booby traps and other things...What we're looking at here is the totality of the circumstances that raised our concern to a level where we're going to need more investigation." Does that sound to you like he wanted to make a candy rocket? You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal. At the time of the article, the investigation was still ongoing. That's likely why they were no charges yet.
    - fault1 5y ago
      > You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal. I will also say, that as a native New Yorker, doing this type of "kitchen chemistry" (if that was he was doing) is _extremely_ reckless in a dense residential neighborhood. He was either was just a hobbyist who liked experimenting with explosives and he was fine with recklessly endangering an entire community.... or he was planning to commit a bombing. A different article: > On Thursday, law enforcement sources told News 4 the fire started because he had a box next to his stove that caught fire. He tossed it, trying to douse the flames, and it landed in his living room, which then also caught fire. So he went to the hospital with severe burns on his hands. We don't know yet exactly what he was doing, but I don't think he deserves anybody's sympathy. That has its limits.
      - superkuh 5y ago
        You guys are quoting all these "scary" lists of chemicals not realizing you're only proving my point. Those aren't chemicals for making explosives. They're for making fireworks at best. Non-detonating things that could burn fast and have pretty colors. I suppose we should charge everyone who starts a fire while cooking with reckless endangerment too? I get that there are different standards of liberty in dense urban areas but I don't think this is beyond them. It's just cops and feds talking up their non-bust.
mrtksn 5y ago
The author apparently got political, had issues with the law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786
- not2b 5y ago
  But isn't faker just a port of someone else's work (originally written in Ruby)?
  - shagie 5y ago
    The oldest version of it dates back to Perl ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker ) - but yes.
CRConrad 5y ago
> It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world, big corps using his software for free, or something else. Or both of those two.

jayski 5y ago

or the insurance company jingle

alessioalex 5y ago

He's a nutjob that blew up his own house while trying to make a bomb or something. There's even an article somewhere. It's not the first time he's being ..weird.

lightlyused 5y ago
I posted this earlier, but it got flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859476 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29859476
lightlyused 5y ago
His twitter post. https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272 https://twitter.com/marak/status/1320465599319990272

fault1 5y ago

The author of this package was caught with 50lbs of Potassium Nitrate (in the middle of NYC) and a bunch of materials on making bombs and booby traps when his apartment caught fire: https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/6425363/ https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64... https://www.qgazette.com/articles/more-charges-possible-for-astoria-bomb-suspect/ https://www.qgazette.com/articles/more-charges-possible-for-... https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-suspected-bomb-making-materials-charged/ https://nypost.com/2020/09/16/resident-of-nyc-home-with-susp... He might have been the unibomber in training. Don't want to pile on, but dude clearly seems to be going through mental issues.

superkuh 5y ago
- xg15 5y ago
  Sorry, this is bullshit. > When investigators entered Squires' apartment to look further, they found more bomb making items including potassium nitrate. Magnesium powder, sulfur powder, copper powder, aluminum powder, hobby fuse and mixing cups were also discovered in the home. "The chemicals separately are what they are, but taken together they can assemble an explosive device," Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said. "There were books about military explosives, booby traps and other things...What we're looking at here is the totality of the circumstances that raised our concern to a level where we're going to need more investigation." Does that sound to you like he wanted to make a candy rocket? You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal. At the time of the article, the investigation was still ongoing. That's likely why they were no charges yet.
  - fault1 5y ago
    > You can do chemistry all your want, but attempting to build a bomb, even of the attempt doesn't succeed, is illegal. I will also say, that as a native New Yorker, doing this type of "kitchen chemistry" (if that was he was doing) is _extremely_ reckless in a dense residential neighborhood. He was either was just a hobbyist who liked experimenting with explosives and he was fine with recklessly endangering an entire community.... or he was planning to commit a bombing. A different article: > On Thursday, law enforcement sources told News 4 the fire started because he had a box next to his stove that caught fire. He tossed it, trying to douse the flames, and it landed in his living room, which then also caught fire. So he went to the hospital with severe burns on his hands. We don't know yet exactly what he was doing, but I don't think he deserves anybody's sympathy. That has its limits.
    - superkuh 5y ago
      You guys are quoting all these "scary" lists of chemicals not realizing you're only proving my point. Those aren't chemicals for making explosives. They're for making fireworks at best. Non-detonating things that could burn fast and have pretty colors. I suppose we should charge everyone who starts a fire while cooking with reckless endangerment too? I get that there are different standards of liberty in dense urban areas but I don't think this is beyond them. It's just cops and feds talking up their non-bust.

mrtksn 5y ago

The author apparently got political, had issues with the law enforcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29839786

not2b 5y ago
But isn't faker just a port of someone else's work (originally written in Ruby)?
- shagie 5y ago
  The oldest version of it dates back to Perl ( https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Faker ) - but yes.

CRConrad 5y ago

> It's unclear if it's referring to current authoritarian turns in our western world, big corps using his software for free, or something else. Or both of those two.