I have followed and admired Near for the better part of my life. I feel I know Near even though they didn’t know me. I am extremely saddened by this news.
Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
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Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#92Such a sad series of events. When folks bring up why people don't just walk away from the PC when being cyberbullied/harassed online, it is often because we attach so much of our lives to our online identities and internet friends. How can you just walk away from what may be your only social outlet?
And Near was very much a person that lived a large part of their life online. Those who bullied him took away a home and a place where he found connections to people. I hope those involved somehow reflect on what they are doing and realize that there are humans on the other end and change their ways, though a quick check of the forum in question shows members are celebrating this news or putting out conspiracy theories that it is some kind of publicity stunt to promote higan.
Truly disheartened and saddened. Be good to people everyone. Even people, dare I say especially the people, you disagree with or dislike. Everyone is going through something you know nothing about.
Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is being cruel and flippantly celebrating a suicide not condemnable enough?
I don't think it is the same as murder or should be illegal. Just yesterday YouTube recommended me a video about an Australian YouTuber facing legal trouble for being mean to an Australian government figure. The laws he may, or may not, have run afoul of use similar language about online harassment. The YouTuber claims to be calling attention to corruption and poor governmental practice. To me, the Australian YouTube…
That’s not what happened with FriendlyJordies. Christo approached John Barillaro, deputy premier of NSW, whilst happening upon him on his way to school (The Con).
Barillaro then sicked an anti-terrorism task force on him, lying about almost ever aspect of the encounter. The difference? Those being actually stalked could never get this unit to act.
A complete abuse of power. But different to this.
Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#94Why has anybody not commented on the bizarre behavior outlined in this tweet? He stayed on the phone for over an hour, while this person was presumably hanging themselves, without trying to help in any way whatsoever? If this story is true, then they didn't intervene during a key time that person could've been saved. Quite frankly, I am not believing this until there's confirmation.
I'm not sure what you can do in that situation if you don't know where the person lives and they're in a foreign country whose language you don't speak. Who do you even contact?
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#95I'm not really sure what to put here. I never spoke to them personally (except maybe once or twice here on HN) but their work on SNES emulation enabled communities to spring up that improved my life for the better. I'm not going to touch the debate on whether to hold Cloudflare+1776Hosting partially responsible here (I'm sure others will), but I do know that Near physically moved countries to get away from the harass…
1776 hosting is run by the KF site admin.
Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a feeling moderating online speech is a losing game. There will always be platforms such as 4chan and KF willing to provide a space to any kind of speech. Maybe I've become too cynical, but I've come to accept that the only way to not be bullied or harassed online is to not expose yourself too much online, such as through compartmentalizing different aspects of your online social life through different social…
> but I've come to accept that the only way to not be bullied or harassed online is to not expose yourself too much online I've been on the internet for almost 30 years. This is something that we've lost in the last decade of people dying to tie their real identity to everything. The wild west internet was actively hostile and you had to be smart about not only what you said, but who you were associating with. This f…
But there's a lot of eccentrics whose life is the internet. To disconnect for them is essentially the same as solitary confinement.
Insofar as privacy, compartmentalization, and good opsec, near did all of that, doesn't help when the mob goes after friends and family.
Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a feeling moderating online speech is a losing game. There will always be platforms such as 4chan and KF willing to provide a space to any kind of speech. Maybe I've become too cynical, but I've come to accept that the only way to not be bullied or harassed online is to not expose yourself too much online, such as through compartmentalizing different aspects of your online social life through different social…
Eh bullying could be culled on many platforms with a simple rule. Require photo ID for an account. Bit hard to insight violence when your able to be held accountable. Tbh should be mandatory for a FB account and Twitter given their large hold on social media. They want to allow non verifiable or accountable users. Give me the user the ability to block interaction with all non verified accounts. Problem mostly sorted.
Oh I would love to see that leak
Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#98"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
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#99Re: Near, the emulator developer of bsnes, higan, and more, has died
#100There's a Kiwi Farms user database and IP address dump floating around if you search for certain words.
The dump dates to late 2019.
byuu/near's thread is as old as 2018.
Many of the users use local ISPs, and many of the current users that are commenting in said thread are in that dump.
They should be fearing the same things that they inflicted upon the people they targeted, but worse. You kick a hive, be prepared to be stung.