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by qb45 11y ago
I learned about the Gamergate drama from HN, well after the fact. This solution seems to have worked for some people :)
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by qb45 11y ago
> the site approaches a point where about 90% of everything is crap. 90% of human interactions are crap ;) Pre-Internet people lived in isolated bubbles and the mess we have now is just a demonstration what happens when too many people f
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by qb45 11y ago
So you are calling a harassment campaign "trolling" and then are surprised that people are dismissing you? As I said in response to your other post, this is something you report to the police. And I bet she did. And about bloc
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by qb45 11y ago
I think that's called DDoS, not trolling. Who is targeted by that and why? Who organizes that - I mean, why would thousands of people suddenly have reason to hate you?
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by qb45 11y ago
Parent and me were talking about hardcore cases. There is no technological solution for people stubbornly following you everywhere and sending death threats. Furthermore, from some anecdotal evidence, I think most victims in such cases alre
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by qb45 11y ago
Those people you report to the police and if the police ignores you, that's the problem that needs fixing. In the good old days, people used to send you such threats by anonymous snail mail instead of twitter.
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by qb45 11y ago
The problem is mainly with external borders, not internal. They are likely getting weapons and other aids from outside, you can't just buy AK47 in EU.
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by qb45 11y ago
Quite possibly. Another submission had been flagged to death earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334908
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by qb45 11y ago
Accidents, which everybody strives to avoid, and intelligent agents actively seeking to kill you are two different classes of danger and people react differently. With accidents, you can kinda hope they won't be happening too often bec
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by qb45 11y ago
They are, living in a place where such things can happen at any time is stressful and sooner or later people will get pissed of.
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by qb45 11y ago
> One source says 11 dead, 25 wounded. Another source at the same time, the federal police nota bene, says 1 dead. Maybe for media to report somebody as dead it is sufficient that this person is indeed dead, while for the police it takes
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by qb45 11y ago
You realize that by punishing the parent for flagging, you are inadvertently "punishing" for posting the explanation as well? :)
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by qb45 11y ago
What's the difference between Brussels and Washington? Judging from comments, I suspect many flaggers are folks operating on the terros want us to hate them some folks are hating terros here flag this thread so that terros don&
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by qb45 11y ago
There is a possibility that you reading too much into the comment which started this thread. It appears to have quite literally meant "the CIA caught terrorists with X so they figured everyone with X is a terrorist". Without convi
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by qb45 11y ago
And you are missing the point about other reasons to suspect F91W users, which have nothing to do with counting watches worn by known terrorists. Also, you probably don't know whether this watch actually was common in Afganistan in e
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by qb45 11y ago
Actually, they say they found time bomb detonators based on this watch. United States Military intelligence officials have identified the F91W as a watch that terrorists use when constructing time bombs. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by qb45 11y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W According to secret documents issued to interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, obtained and released by The Guardian, "the Casio F-91W digital watch was declared to be &#x
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by qb45 11y ago
> Manipulating/imploring me to do/see/think the way they do Maybe you are too deceptive yourself? ;) I think I was pretty manipulative as a kid and this led me to suspect that everybody messing with my emotions is trying t
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by qb45 11y ago
> Perhaps you should develop some kind of mathematical model (say, some kind of proof calculus) for computing what is the smartest thing to do Quick sanity check: should this logic be powerful enough to prove every true fact about natura
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by qb45 11y ago
If only good guys used guns, nobody would need them. It actually is "we know bad guys already have guns, so better if good guys have them too". Same with crypto, btw.
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by qb45 11y ago
Not sure what you mean. Obviously it is possible to increase the TTL of incoming traffic if that's what you wanted to know. Linux iptables can do that, IIRC BSD pf too, and some consumer routers even have an option in the GUI.
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by qb45 11y ago
> 4. The printer will not function (Scanner or Fax) without the full cartridges (black and colours). My parents recently scraped an Epson all-in-one. Something had broken inside and the printer insisted that there is a paper jam and refu
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by qb45 11y ago
I just look for models known to work well with OpenWRT. This way I don't have to deal with random bugs or limitations of stock firmwares.
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by qb45 11y ago
Would be nice if this information was more visible. I was quite surprised that the link leads to some random G+ page about "smartplug" hacking while people here are talking as if it was a commercial product.
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by qb45 11y ago
> I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you. I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets wit
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by qb45 11y ago
> Isn't this just an example of the halting problem? As in, you can't prove that a program won't ever halt. Not really, the HP is about writing a program which automatically proves halting/not-halting for every poss
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by qb45 11y ago
Same device here, works perfectly with OpenWRT.
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by qb45 11y ago
I think they may be talking about evil ISPs who change TTL of all your incoming IP packets to 1 so that any router you may run would drop them. However, this is not an issue with "dumb" ethernet-WiFi bridges.
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by qb45 11y ago
> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes? It's obvious, you get another gadget which bypasses the plug when it switches off despite network being up. Capacitors in the router will kee
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by qb45 11y ago
Where are you sourcing those "proper" cell phone radios which don't contain secret binary blobs? I want one too.

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