Hacker News: wayathr0w

New comment by wayathr0w in "Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual"

wayathr0w — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:34:01 +0000

>Flock coaches police on denying records requests, inserts itself into the legal process, and sells a 'transparency portal' its own staff calls useless.

Flock vs. FOIA: The Suppression Manual

wayathr0w — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:34:01 +0000

Article URL: https://haveibeenflocked.com/news/flock-vs-foia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281371

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The final nail – mapping animal exploitation in the United States

wayathr0w — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:46:59 +0000

Article URL: https://finalnail.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43220367

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wayathr0w in "DMCA Notices Took Down 31,151 GitHub Projects Last Year"

wayathr0w — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:55:10 +0000

Reads like a GitHub press release, except for this:

>The report shows that the platform processed more than 2,000 takedown notices in 2024, which affected 31,151 repositories.

>Of all notices received, just 41 were contested or retracted, and a total of 103 repositories remained online as a result.

New comment by wayathr0w in "Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty"

wayathr0w — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:49:33 +0000

Do any of these visualizations meaningfully incorporate the fact that many (if not most) books lack ISBNs?

New comment by wayathr0w in "Infosec 101 for Activists"

wayathr0w — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:32:13 +0000

What actually happened at 2020's protests & riots in the u.s., in the words of those who were there:

https://paper.wf/downas/partisan-accounts-of-the-george-floy...

Why delegitimizing those who don't abide by the rules of “peaceful protest” amounts to defense of the status quo:

https://north-shore.info/2024/10/04/not-liking-someone-doesn...

New comment by wayathr0w in "Infosec 101 for Activists"

wayathr0w — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:20:48 +0000

Can't speak for OP's link, but as a contrast No Trace Project's resources contain lots of advice from people who actually routinely face state repression, with in-depth analysis of specific cases. The scope is international (though focused on the North Atlantic region) rather than english- & u.s.-exclusive. There are plenty of references to Tor+Tails.

https://www.notrace.how/

http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

New comment by wayathr0w in "Infosec 101 for Activists"

wayathr0w — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 10:02:33 +0000

Some of the crowd here is already aware of the issues with these recommendations, so let's take things up a level.

https://www.notrace.how/ / http://i4pd4zpyhrojnyx5l3d2siauy4almteocqow4bp2lqxyocrfy6pry...

https://www.anarsec.guide/

New comment by wayathr0w in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

wayathr0w — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:30:50 +0000

Google is already a "defense" (military) contractor. They sell stuff directly to governments, well aware how it'll be used.

New comment by wayathr0w in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

wayathr0w — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:26:48 +0000

It's surprising to me that they ever made such a pledge, considering...you know.

http://www.notechforapartheid.com/

New comment by wayathr0w in "Aangat Lahat: digital mutual aid (free+noncommercial email, file host, & more)"

wayathr0w — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:48:43 +0000

>The services under Aangat Lahat is my way of offering some sort of digital mutual aid that provides free online communications to people who want it. *Please know that this server is explicitly against capitalism, states, cops, fascists, racists, antisemitism, sexists, harassment, homophobia, transphobia, ableists, and zionists.*

Aangat Lahat: digital mutual aid (free+noncommercial email, file host, & more)

wayathr0w — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://aangat.lahat.computer/mediawiki/Main_Page

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918196

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wayathr0w in "Copyright reform is necessary for national security"

wayathr0w — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:50:12 +0000

Fuck national security & fuck "the west". These are not things we should seek to protect or defend. (And yes, fuck copyright too.)

2011-2013 case against Jeremy Hammond – overview by the No Trace Project

wayathr0w — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 03:52:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notrace.how/threat-library/repressive-operations/2011-2013-case-against-jeremy-hammond.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810346

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wayathr0w in "Telegram Closes Z-Library and Anna's Archive Channels for Copyright Infringement"

wayathr0w — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:48:53 +0000

Amazing what kidnapping a tech billionaire can get you.

New comment by wayathr0w in "Visualizing All ISBNs"

wayathr0w — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:17:01 +0000

>relatively expedient reconstruction

If self-destruction is a necessary premise here, is that really a good thing?

New comment by wayathr0w in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

wayathr0w — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:13:48 +0000

>We need to build an alternative access to knowledge that bypasses the copyright/ownership of knowledge paradigm.

That's what shadow libraries are doing, as are many other older & less prominent models of information distribution. These projects should be proliferated & promoted to challenge the dominant propaganda that people can only do things the U.S. government says they can.

New comment by wayathr0w in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

wayathr0w — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:35:53 +0000

Depends. This case was specifically about a library of books whose uploads were all done or coordinated by IA's employees. That is something different than the various things, including but not at all limited to books, unaffiliated people upload. It's certainly possible "random people's uploads" could come under increasing scrutiny & legal attack as publishing companies are likely feeling emboldened by the victory, but I don't think that's what this specific ruling was about.

New comment by wayathr0w in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

wayathr0w — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 14:27:40 +0000

This is nonsense. A great many of Internet Archive's in-house scanned books weren't previously available on shadow libraries; many of the Internet Archive scans have meaningful differences from the digital copies available elsewhere; & much of the shadow libraries' collections actually came to them from the Internet Archive. In the case of Anna's Archive specifically, they conducted a massive scrape of IA's library.

I think the legalist approach IA is taking was always doomed, but the enormous resources at their disposal allowed them to do a lot of collecting that other efforts have & will continue to benefit enormously from.

New comment by wayathr0w in "James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died"

wayathr0w — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:59:06 +0000

Scott wasn't an anarchist either - hence "Two Cheers" instead of three. He worked for the CIA in the 1960s, self-identified as a "crude Marxist" at best, didn't believe it was possible or necessary to eliminate the state - which he described as a rare but potential force for good - and was a frequent donor to the Democrats.

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/536292