https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirPatrickMooreHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 10 May 2026 08:45:19 +0000He/they is not dead. The person who claimed that Byuu/Near committed suicide claimed he confirmed it with the Japanese police. The Japanese have to report every American citizen who died to the US, which is then included in an online database here: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra... No US citizen died by unnatural causes in Japan in the entire second half of 2021, and not on the 28th of June. Byuu/Near was still alive and posting well after the 11th of May, the last time an American citizen died by suicide in Japan in 2021.

]]>Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:04:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707946SirPatrickMoorehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707946https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707946A person, claiming to be a moderator on Kiwifarms, swatted Marjorie Taylor Greene (but unfortunately misspelled it as "Kiwifarm" in the note claiming responsibility). I have no doubt that this person did it with the express intent of getting Cloudfare to withdraw their services. Up until then Marjorie Taylor Greene had been quite popular on Kiwifarms.

]]>Sat, 03 Sep 2022 23:07:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707302SirPatrickMoorehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32707302