Barbing

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by Barbing 5d ago
Some junky news site claimed nine, but saw eleven and thirteen more widely reported. Read some JMail but didn’t dig into the files beyond that. Sick stuff, respect to those whose jobs demand they closely follow everything.
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by Barbing 5d ago
> Seems Epstein was a more commonplace sleazy creep into young prostitutes getting him into age of consent trouble in some states but not others. Age of consent is eleven in which states?
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by Barbing 5d ago
IIRC he tried to find people he could trust to redact in a way that would protect US national security interests.
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by Barbing 5d ago
Rather tragic that less-technical folks in positions of power can find this: > You can't make backdoors only the "good guys" can access. incomprehensible. I’m sure genuinely so, even.
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by Barbing 6d ago
I was thinking if they owned their own data centers, how expensive might this project have been.
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by Barbing 6d ago
We were responding to your insinuation that they would do the intimidation nonpublicly. Perhaps it was misinterpreted.
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by Barbing 6d ago
Is the electricity cost far greater than the marketing value?
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by Barbing 6d ago
Ding ding, right! Obviously, the move is to continuously put your finger on the scale rather than doing something blatantly potentially illegal (depending on the threat). There would have to be some meat on the bone, some unilateral NDA kin
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by Barbing 6d ago
Is the author going to add instructions on the terminal command to use knowing that as soon as the site went live and got noticed by the main labs the URL went on a denylist?
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by Barbing 6d ago
>The mods are much … quicker to intimidate/threaten They’re doing this privately ? Normally you shouldn’t screenshot emails/DMs/texts sure, but please do in this case. I have showdead on in Settings, so I should see it if
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by Barbing 6d ago
Performing well https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49770293 I look when I comment on something that suddenly disappears from the front page.
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by Barbing 6d ago
> intimidate/threaten Links to examples? I see “please stop fulminating” “we’ve asked you not to do this [guideline violating behavior] and we’ll have to ban you if you keep it up”, which is gentler than [shadow]banning even with th
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by Barbing 6d ago
Has anyone asked their favorite model to compare YC funding with HN rankings just kidding wild and zany thinking ;)
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by Barbing 6d ago
Have you come across a quantitative analysis of this?
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by Barbing 6d ago
Still relevant! Very interesting topic.
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by Barbing 6d ago
Officially, should be protecting the site by keeping things interesting. (Just saying officially.) Thanks to dang, links: curiosity and repetition: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
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by Barbing 7d ago
You could do standup probably
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by Barbing 7d ago
I guarantee you this is within the realm of possibility based on one single experience. When you upgrade your phone perhaps keep your old one in a safe and charge it and login to Gmail monthly or something? I’m also quite certain the codes
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by Barbing 7d ago
> FAQ >Is this legal? >Yes, to the best of our knowledge. 7 U.S. Code § 13-1 prohibits "contract[s] for the sale of [...] onions for future delivery [...] on or subject to the rules of any board of trade in the United States.&
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by Barbing 7d ago
Flock seeks to shed whistleblowers via financially-motivated self selection > And we just want people to be safe. We’d all be safer if we were in jail (sorry to give the clown ideas)
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by Barbing 7d ago
Anyone sending their 18 Pro Max to Apple’s central repair depot will, or they won’t get the label, it seems. If the phone won’t boot, wonder if shipping is potentially illegal, and Apple would mandate driving it to a store?
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by Barbing 8d ago
Great writing and points Ethan!
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by Barbing 8d ago
>use the recovery codes. Fun fact: Google can decide to reject these. Lose access to the original device, try to rely on recovery codes to login with known current password on family member’s device… nope!
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by Barbing 8d ago
It’s an interesting bet then. Pay next to nothing every time, accept one financially-depressed researcher sale to blackhats causing tremendous business disruption every n years. Cheaper than honest payouts to [keep] researchers [honest]?
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by Barbing 9d ago
Thoughts on YaCy’s P2P search model if you’ve seen? https://yacy.net
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by Barbing 9d ago
Blocking / infinite CAPTCHA loops seem to revolve. Sometimes Cloudflare DNS they don’t like. Can be country blocks too. Right now it’s top notch here. Would say more but don’t want to give bots an abusable profile :)
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by Barbing 9d ago
I love this site
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by Barbing 10d ago
Thanks. Few saw that post: https://news.social-protocols.org/stats?id=49726577
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by Barbing 10d ago
>like Apple’s Private Relay Reading this as “Private Cloud Compute“ (PCC) (Not iCloud Private Relay, the VPN)
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by Barbing 10d ago
>advocating for Firefox developing features only for rich hobbyists ?: >marketing pages aren't candid enough to clearly explain

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