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New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 22:29:50 +0000

What the hell is this travesty. Now any old nobody can kill a site by larping drama on fucking twitter.

You should all think about the people dying in dictatorships before you give up a free and open Internet over some paedophile using twitter clout to ban a gossip forum

State department email records audit report pdf

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 25 May 2016 18:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2842429/ESP-16-03-Final.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11771912

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New comment by BgSpnnrs in "State Department Audit: Private Email Server Not Government Records Compliant"

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 25 May 2016 17:21:48 +0000

Here's a .pdf of the report

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2842460/ESP-16-03...

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:11:28 +0000

Amusing to note you found that thread on undelete :/

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Hiroyuki Nishimura, founder of 2channel, has taken ownership of 4chan"

BgSpnnrs — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 19:18:47 +0000

I think Mike Cernovich did after he got doxxed and attempted swatted

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Ketamine Connection"

BgSpnnrs — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:37:06 +0000

Still used in pediatrics in the UK. Just the BBC being the BBC.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin"

BgSpnnrs — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:09:23 +0000

If you tag a user of a subreddit then you are going to see them pop up all over the place. It's not necessarily indicative of a raid or brigade.

>also, there were 150,000 of them.

Probably explains why you saw tagged users 'invading' subs you use.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Ellen Pao case puts Silicon Valley boys' club on trial"

BgSpnnrs — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 01:05:06 +0000

conversely puts the fastidiously litigious on trial too. No investment in either side, i think it's all pretty grim.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan"

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:39:29 +0000

He posted his number privately in order to facilitate an interview regarding the topic at hand. I'd argue publishing that is far more egregious than taking a selfie outside someones publicly listed place of work.

Either way they are both shitty behaviours, don't really think we need to take a one vs the other.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan"

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:34:05 +0000

Perhaps the entrepreneurs amongst us don't like it when someone who the brutality of society would miscast as an ugly little man makes a site that isn't afraid of showing it's ugly side and garners moderate success in, if not financial but at least social acceptance and 'bootstrap' paradigms.

Frederick is an inspirational bloke and all these people casting aspersions on his character whilst lamenting m00t's departure for his cultural boldness, despite disagreeing with the content is pure hypocrisy.

Especially given the non-inclusive hate mob moniker attributed to GG by a genuinely terrible cabal of shoddy journalists and their transparent smears.

I believe common sense will prevail in all of this and there will be no victory fanfares or v-days - quietly the press will mature, the trolls will get bored and good websites and reporters will get justified clicks.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan"

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:08:34 +0000

There's nothing naive and presumptuous about it in the least, it's an ethical violation that wouldn't fly by most professional standards and there are vast tracts of legal obligations most people adhere to which define those boundaries, no matter what a small group of hacks suppose.

fortunately the more responsible publications have already updated their policies and looked inwardly to prevent fucking up so publicly and obviously again. (We can hope at the least they won't soapbox to their readership that they are assholes for calling them out!).

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Dolphin Progress Report: November 2014"

BgSpnnrs — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 21:29:25 +0000

The next one is actually happening.4-10 Jan 2015, so keep an eye out for it on twitch, great event.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "[dead]"

BgSpnnrs — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 09:53:39 +0000

What a load of old rot that consistently and wilfully avoids the very valid concerns about corruption and ethical question marks regarding certain game jams and charity drives in order to chuck a bunch of epithets around.

>""Gamer" says none of that. "Gamer" is selfish; preoccupied with one’s own pleasure over the advancement of the medium. "Gamer" is conservative; virulently opposed to change or innovation except in very specific, rigidly-defined areas. "Gamer" is tribalistic; defining oneself in terms of one’s tastes and factional allegiances above all.""

Utter tripe.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "NSA Observer"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:05:27 +0000

Does this not depend on the NSA's rather dubious interpretation of 'collection' to mean 'collected but not actually analyzed by human eyes yet'?

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "NSA Observer"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:13:48 +0000

Could you elaborate? I'd like to know the proper facts if this site is not providing them!

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "NSA Observer"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:11:42 +0000

Without personal interaction and not to cast aspersions on a person I've not met, John Young has a reputation of being a bit of a firebrand, iconoclast and bombastic figure - however cryptome has operated for many years with a simple policy of publish docs deemed inappropriate for public view...

They intentionally make no judgement on the things they publish.

It is a note of importance however, to realise cryptome - in the case of most of these source documents - are serving as a host rather than linking to the original (guardian/WAPO/firstlook/der speigel etc.) websites, probably as much for posterity as for convenience.

I see little reason to question the veracity of the info provided on this site.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0000

..and theology does?

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Astrophysicists propose new twist on Big Bang"

BgSpnnrs — Sat, 16 Aug 2014 11:06:34 +0000

>Otherwsie, for all we know, out Universe can be just a 3d surface of a 4d nut that a small 4d squirrel puppy is about to bite into.

absolutely. I know you are trying to portray such a scenario as incredulous, but it's entirely feasible.

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "Edward Snowden: The Untold Story"

BgSpnnrs — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 14:48:24 +0000

Didn't the chap who hacked FinFisher mention something about Syrians somehow acquiring the software. I'm sure I read that the other day

New comment by BgSpnnrs in "The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up"

BgSpnnrs — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:08:38 +0000

I remember the Napoli too, went and had a look out of curiosity. Also not heard of this Lego incident! Of course shipwrecks, and even wreckers have an illustrious history down here.