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The FBI targets people for long-term (in some cases years[1]) entrapment based only on their social circles, like being involved in environmentalism or being a Muslim[2]. This is p…

Old man yells at cloud, curses future, more at 11.

As a formerly ardent software freedom lifestylist I hear this criticism and have embraced it myself. I don't encourage the "designers" I know in my life to use GIMP anymore. Much l…

""" 2. He doesn't let the FSF be larger than him. Who's their 2nd in command? Who'll take over after he passes on? What will the FSF look like in 30 years? """ I don't actually kno…

This is the same tired justification of injustice that "states rights" advocates trot out.

Geez. You weren't exaggerating.

>but having to share the bathroom with females The fact this comment is not gray having such overt misogyny speaks poorly of HN as a tech community. This is what keeps women out of…

These are the 14 words: "...we must secure the existence of white people and a future for white children." They were coined by David Lane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lane_…

Here's how the UX actually works: 1. User chooses "attach photo." 2. The user hasn't installed the plugin. Who does that? So signal doesn't work. 3. The user sends their contact a …

'Blurted' (thinking this is how a diplomatic reception works is straining) utterances don't end up on Wikileaks, and the united states isn't different now, for better or worse, tha…

> You're welcome to suggest measures I should undertake to be more effective at getting to the truth in these matters. I notice you don't mention double blinding any of these inter…

I would say Temporal is not far off in saying "commitment to the truth," but I would go further and say that the core of humanity, of being human, is striving towards bettering our…

>All this stuff draws contempt from curmudgeonly skeptics (of which I used to be the worst kind), but from painful experience I've found these techniques to be far more effective t…

Well, presumably their confidence to the US government helped the US in some way, or the their relationship would be pretty brief.

The web interface does show some of these things, but I think with Wikileaks you can always get a torrent of the raw files they've obtained. At least, that was usually the case. Th…

The thing is that it takes a significant amount of time and bandwidth to get flagged as an exit and included on circuits. So your set of hosts is going to be pretty limited to star…

Did you check prior to the multiple years of work on the exit scanner? Just lurking on tor-relays and tor-talk shows a lot of responsiveness on the part of the dirauths.

Tor Project runs several scanners for this behavior. Arguably, unless your ISP, ISP's ISP, coffee shop, etc., are all 100% on top of their game, this could happen in any one of tho…

Reddit tends towards sanitization because it's so easy to kill something on /new and so hard to break into /hot on bigger subreddits. On any subreddit where new posts aren't immedi…

Well, Slenderman had the video game Slender popularize the meme, so I would expect the trend to be dominated by people who came to the meme via that game rather than the organic gr…

>What kicked it off in 2007 I don't know. The internet meme of "creepypasta," probably. See /r/nosleep for the sanitized version. This is the meme cluster that yielded Slenderman, …

Pregnancy predominantly effects women. If I need to argue that women are oppressed, I don't think we can have a discussion. Phobias effect the neurodivergent and your dismissal of …

Why should anyone be cut any slack? We can all clearly see the trend of moral progress and we should all be able to extrapolate from it. Progressivism wins and reactionism loses. B…

>Must I now stop wearing my wolf shirts? That's probably a good idea either way...

Really? You don't think people are capable of being traumatized by pregnancy, death, or insects? Personal injury and insects are among the most common phobias and pregnancy should …