Hacker News: normalaccess

New comment by normalaccess in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

normalaccess — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:35:23 +0000

It feels like there is "backpressure" that has been backed into our current world that makes people like Snowden and Assange an impossibility. The collective control of politics, media, and corporations have built a society that is inoculated to truth and no longer have a response to evil.

Even when the truth is told to us directly to our faces, no one seems to care.

New comment by normalaccess in "Can I Let My AI Agent Run on Shabbat?"

normalaccess — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:02:49 +0000

We live in REALLY inserting times. For some people that is the whole point of AI.

A.I. could kickstart the next big religion: https://youtu.be/IwTq7LbUO6U

Yuval Harari: An Israeli Scholar Predicts The Future of Power, Religion and Happiness: https://youtu.be/nv_wv13gA3E

Cult of Anthropic: https://futurism.com/future-society/cult-anthropic-insiders-...

New comment by normalaccess in "Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage"

normalaccess — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Fantastic project. I have been using it for about a year and have had no problems yet. Building another box to deploy for family.

New comment by normalaccess in "I built a hardware-bound local password vault hidden in a photo"

normalaccess — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:28:51 +0000

I think I'll ask Codex to make an open source version

New comment by normalaccess in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

normalaccess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:41:38 +0000

Sounds like the plot to a horror movie.

New comment by normalaccess in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

normalaccess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:02:19 +0000

My Opinion on that: It would be branded as unsafe and something only terrorists and extremists use. Aside from the propaganda campaigns that would run 24/7 to influence public opinion it would (and will) be outlawed to run an unmonitored personal compute system. I'll bet they will use the fact that open models can generate c-sam materials.

New comment by normalaccess in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

normalaccess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:56:09 +0000

I think that's the end goal.

New comment by normalaccess in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

normalaccess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:55:40 +0000

This is a meme video but I think it hits the nail on the head.

TLDR: AI will force global online digital ID for everyone that uses the internet for the exact reason you mentioned. And that would forever change free speech forever allowing the powers that be to put the genie "back in the bottle" so to speak.

link: Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - https://youtu.be/-gGLvg0n-uY

New comment by normalaccess in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

normalaccess — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:18:55 +0000

Would this impact distillation? Reminds me of the fake roads map makers would add to their maps to detect copying.

New comment by normalaccess in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

normalaccess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:38:35 +0000

Thankfully for now this dragon is a hydra. Too many paths to block for now. The whole TPM fiasco with windows is preparation to put the genie back in the bottle. Soon, much sooner than I would like you will need a Global ID to access the internet, which will require an "internet safe operating system". It's only a matter of time. Get your sneakers ready folks.

New comment by normalaccess in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

normalaccess — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:39:25 +0000

I'm close to B. In the 80's they tested how appearance affects people. Some women were given a facial scar and went to interviews while others were left as is. The scar group reported higher levels of discrimination than those without the scar. Tricky thing was none of them had scars in the interviews. The women that thought they had the fake scars had a "touch up" and the testers removed it.

Link: https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/what-a-1980s-facial-scar...

New comment by normalaccess in "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"

normalaccess — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:34:10 +0000

Classic example of the Nothing to hide argument.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

New comment by normalaccess in "Knoppix"

normalaccess — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:19:43 +0000

I remember a younger me being dazzled by the colored boot text. Good times!

New comment by normalaccess in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

normalaccess — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:29:26 +0000

Nobody is installing surveillance cameras in you bathroom yet.

New comment by normalaccess in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

normalaccess — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:42:44 +0000

I don't think age verification is the actual goal... I believe complete surveillance and information control is the goal. Age verification is just the justification they are using to coat the poison pill in sugar.

New comment by normalaccess in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

normalaccess — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:06:06 +0000

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu

Privacy protects personal dignity, not just illicit behavior. We close bathroom doors, keep journals, and have intimate conversations not because we are breaking the law, but because we value personal modesty and boundaries.

We are quickly approaching a time when we are all guilty until proven innocent by voyeuristic power-hungry psychopathic megalomaniacs who cry the old cry of "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

New comment by normalaccess in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

normalaccess — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:01:05 +0000

And this is how freedom dies, not by the letter of the law, but by the spirit.

New comment by normalaccess in "Never talk to the police"

normalaccess — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:33:14 +0000

That is a very good point depending on the situation. On the flip side, abstaining from the process and remaining silent (but still compliant) can put a spotlight on injustice if there be any.

New comment by normalaccess in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

normalaccess — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:22:56 +0000

I have this on 24/7. I like them even when I'm not driving.

New comment by normalaccess in "Never talk to the police"

normalaccess — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:15:01 +0000

yes, there is a fine line between "Don't Talk" and standing up for your rights. I feel like it's advisable to speak up when your rights are being violated. I can't quite put the words on what I mean but I think stating a fact like "This is my kid" is A-ok.