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It’s not a “maybe”. This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. you really think they’re going to send them gift baskets or something?
> This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. Source for this? This goes against many values of the US, so I'm surprised to see this statement thrown out so nonchalantly.
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This the mindblowing thing about the whole Epstein saga: so many people knew about this . And yet, the mutually assured destruction of having been associated with Epstein was enough to effectively impose a code of silence on all of them.
Have you ever heard of the Bohemian Grove? The birthplace of the Heritage Foundation? There you have them all, in one club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
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Have you ever heard of the Bohemian Grove? The birthplace of the Heritage Foundation? There you have them all, in one club https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
No, I never heard of them, so thank you for the pointer.
They have such clubs in your part of the world no doubt? (Netherlands, IIRC?)
The fostering of circles of trust, backed up with Kompromat, to strengthen elite solidarity, ease insider trading, treat handshakes as binding, and cover up the odd "unfortunate incident" is seemingly as old as time.
#PigGate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate is loosely related.
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Can someone explain to me how Discord got so big in the first place, particularly for non-gaming uses? I saw this coming a mile away when folks started ditching slack for Discord - Slack being problematic because a) it was profit-seeking and would use its leverage over your personal data to seek rent and b) it was antithetical to the open web. Discord has the exact same two issues so was obviously not a solution. Why…
As far as I can tell, Discord doesn't delete history so you can join an older discord and scroll back. 99.99% of slacks that are free lose history after some arbitrary timeframe (used to be 10,000 messages, now I think its 90 days). Plus you can connect Discord to your Steam/Playstation/Xbox account, which gamers like.
People, do not use discord for conversations with family/friends that you want to have any chance of holding onto, even just a year later.
The referenced write-up based on the Persona front end code is here: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions about the code as most of the secondary reporting is quite low quality.
Note also there's a direct response from Persona's security team here[1], and a lot of back and forth from Rick on Twitter[2]. [1]: https://withpersona.com/blog/post-incident-review-source-map... [2]: https://x.com/Persona_IDV/status/2025048195773198385?s=20
The referenced write-up based on the Persona front end code is here: https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions about the code as most of the secondary reporting is quite low quality.
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> About the name: The subdomain was called onyx, a reference to the Pokémon Onix (a Pokémon made of multiple boulders, fitting for a multi-node architecture). It was an informal codename chosen by the engineer. It had no connection whatsoever to Fivecast ONYX, an unrelated 3rd party commercial product previously used by ICE. We understand this coincidence caused confusion, and we address it further below.
The fact that this is even being discussed is truly a bad smell of bad-faith “dig up anything that sounds bad” “reporting”
I am not convinced. Teter Piel (don't want to use the other name) kind of purchased a LOT of influence power via lobbyists. One lobbyist is Sebastian Lurz (also not going to use the real name here; the letter "l" is an in-country humourous take on Lüssel, Lasser and so forth - ex-politicians). The superrich buy influence and worsen the situation for the rest of us. This has to stop. The USA is currently under direct…
Is this the same provider that linkedin uses? I was never able to pass this succefully.
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>not the age of my account. Sounds like you're practicing creating AI bots and have modeled the personality after the other rogue ones.
amazing comment from a 13 year old account. really embodying the spirit of the HN guidelines. thanks for the warm welcome. so, what exactly, are you basing your accusation on? was it me saying "use noscript and reader mode" or maybe "people have different opinions"? or just by nature of having created an account after you created yours? this sort of accusation is what will drive HN to be a shit community to participa…
Might I recommend leaving the snark at home and approaching your interactions here with good faith instead of acting like you're the authoritative arbiter of community interactions?
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