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botwriter··on Covid in Sydney: Military deployed to help enforce lockdown
Australia recently just tightened its gun laws... now you have state tyranny over a few cases...

Maybe the NRA were right.

botwriter··on Starting a new digital identity
Would make sense if he withdrew small amounts from an ATM incrementally, but if he withdrew say $5k and then his web footprint went dead it draws a lot of red flags.

Although it depends who your adversary is at the end of the day.

botwriter··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
Why does the left have to censor the right? Surely they should be able to beat the right with logical and reasoned arguments?

Censorship has always struck me as a tool that a side which isn't confident in its arguments uses.

botwriter··on Stopping some fishing would increase overall catches
Ghost nets are some of the most ecologically destructive things on the planet.

creating more of them isn't a smart move.

botwriter··on The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016)
Before Covid I was living out in Phnom Penh. I adore Cambodia and its people who are some of the friendliest people I've ever met in the world!

The Khmer Rouge were a mixture of Marxism and Khmer nationalism. Black lives matter is a mixture of Marxism and Black nationalism...

It's very apt to have this article here. I'll always challenge Marxism because I've seem the results and what it does to people. My landlord was a child solider his mother a lovely elderly women who's only English was "hello" with a very toothless grin. But if children walked past she would go silent because when the Khmer rouge were in power if children heard you say anything which could be construed as wrong you'd be murdered.

The Khmer don't talk of post traumatic stress they call it 'broken courage'.

I've met so many people who's parents did amazing things. My ex girlfriends grandfather fled to Thailand as he was a teacher and considered educated. Her father worked the field during the Khmer rouge period afterwards who got an education where he could and put himself through medical school and became a doctor. He's one of the most incredible people I've ever met. My ex keeps a picture of him in her purse on the back in written my hero my father.

You do walk around and see old people and the thought does wonder in your mind are you a victim of genocide or a war criminal. The Khmer have forgiven though and should be an inspiration to us all.

Black lives matter terrifies me because I look back in history and I've seen what racial Marxism does!

botwriter··on On Facebook and YouTube, classical musicians are getting blocked or muted
Why not make it so that you just can't own copyright on versions of Public domain music.

Makes life a hell of a lot easier the ai recognised this is public domain and so no one can make a claim on it.

botwriter··on Coronavirus may mean automation is coming sooner than we thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfJn7T4D-6k

Maybe of interest

botwriter··on Elliott Management buys stake in Twitter and seeks to oust Jack Dorsey
Fucking YESSS!!!! Get in there my son!
botwriter··on Reddit purges 1/2 of The Donald’s moderators – replaces them with approved mods
an upvote to you sir. anyone who says anything even remotely in favour of trump usally loses all there HN points.
botwriter··on Smithsonian Releases 2.8M Images into Public Domain
Until Getty starts suing people for using them!
botwriter··on In Britain, even jails have a class system
nah for white collar crime in the UK he'd be out on bail.
botwriter··on In Britain, even jails have a class system
you're not from the UK or Europe are you?

There are a lot of eastern european criminals who come to the UK to do business. I'm not saying its good or bad I'm just saying its part of life in the UK.

botwriter··on Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?
forums are a tricky one. It needs multiple accounts to shill for you and praise you. I've got BHW and a few other forums wrapped around my little finger.
botwriter··on Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?
you could say 'get woke go broke' applied.

Why would companies put themselves at a net disadvantage by actively targetting older SE's who are more likely to know their rights and not accept 18 hour days.

botwriter··on Preliminary assessment of the International Spreading Risk of Coronavirus [pdf]
I'm amazed Phnom Penh isn't on that list.

there are a lot more cases which aren't on the official figures.

botwriter··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
I've just been downvoted wonder if it's because of the china stuff :D
botwriter··on Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?
1. Brexit happens the UK becomes Singapore on the Thames. Net contributors to the EU (Germany, Holland, France, etc.) populous's become increasingly eurosceptic. Another country leaves the EU (Probably Holland) and the EU crumbles.

2. Countries increasingly venture into building their own microchips; the world wakes up that letting China build most of the world's chips is a terrible idea on a national security standpoint.

3. Trump wins the 2020 election, Democrats implode. Democrats move further to the left. Republicans have another celebrity/ popular candidate and win the 2024 election. The democrat's open borders policies and sanctuary cities screw over the democrats as Hispanics and naturally catholic and conservative.

4. LGBTQ+ movement recognises paedophilia as an oppressed minority. Outrage ensues they lose all support from the public and the LGB section forms their own evolution that gains popular support.

5. The links between US media funding and China get leaked. Massive scandal but mainstream media still somehow survive it.

6. Myanmar (Burma) shocks most people to become the next industrial powerhouse (China). Most of the world suspects it will be Vietnam, but it won't.

7. The full extent of Chinas gold reserves is known. Dwarfing US Gold reserves depending how this emerges it will be seen as an act of war and 2nd cold war will heat up. Gold prices soar to unprecidented levels RMB soars and (again depending on how the world finds out) the Chinese push for RMB to be the defacto global currency.

8. The rise of Private Intelligence Agencys is more widley known. A high profile fuck up will happen and at least one nation state will have egg on their face.

9. The Chinese leader Xi Jinping gets assasinated. More than likely by someone in the Chinese Miliatry with links to dissedents in ethier Hong Kong, Taiwan or Tibet. Massive internal power vaccum happens. The 'success' of his assasination sees a rash of other asian leaders getting bumped off including North Koreas leader.

10. China invades Taiwan. First cyber war takes place. US thinks twice about a full blown war with mainland China and instead opts for intelligence lead / cyber capabilities to topple the chinese Government.

11. Chinese government may fall due to economic downturns in China, belt and road isn't enough. Massive recession in most of south east asia and certain parts of africa also.

12. Media will write articles in 2030 on trying to work out who exactly was botwriter and how were his predictions so close.

botwriter··on Creating an open-source solution to the headaches of headless browsers
I second this!
botwriter··on Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
I'm sure this will just get lost in, but hey I'll say it anyway.

I've worked in aquaculture science for years before I moved onto programming (Pays better / I don't have to worry about farm alarms going off at 2 am). I've worked in nearly every type of far. I've been at some of the most cutting edge Recirculatory aquaculture systems in the UK, and I've taught degree and master students in the field.

Its a dishearting situation right now. Company after company in this field seems to be going bust because they keep having their technology stolen by the Chinese state.

Other than Salmon farming the UK aquaculture industry is fucked. Even if you automated everything, it's still cheaper to produce aquaculture products in third world countries and ship it in. The recirculatory aquaculture field as it stands is dependant on EU grants. (Which have stopped because of Brexit) And also renewable energy grants. A few years back, the government would pay you money to heat water with a biomass boiler. So it was and maybe still is to run a RAS system without fish in it.

I'm currently working on some R&D with Giant freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii,) to hopefully farm blue claws so that they form in higher densities. But this is only a side project and until major legislative change happens warm water aquaculture in the UK is fucked.

botwriter··on GetAwesomeness: A Directory of Lists
Yeah, Awesome Go is well pretty damn awesome.
botwriter··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
Passed out and the ex-girlfriend used my finger on my phone to unlock it.
botwriter··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
found this out the hard way with a paranoid ex.

now I just use the 8 digit pin to login

botwriter··on US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
When the state names a particular company as anonymous or untraceable consider it compromised.
botwriter··on US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
This! I'm sure state actors are running exchanges or they are at least compromised.
botwriter··on China's New Cybersecurity Program: No Place to Hide
I can see the fall of China happening in the next 5 - 10 years.

Plunging the world into a global recession.

With this + the US trade war, why on earth would a multinational still invest in China.

botwriter··on Dutch police take down hornets' nest of DDoS botnets
If even Bulletproof hosts aren't safe why aren't malware authors using P2P infrastructure?
botwriter··on He Says He Invented Bitcoin and Is Suing Those Who Doubt Him
I'm no expert on crypto and usually get talked at by a mate about it.

But didn't this chap have child porn uploaded to his coin or something because his data storage was so big?

therefore anyone who uses it is effectivly distributing child porn.

botwriter··on Facebook to ban white nationalist content
facebook only moderates posts in English

There was plenty of videos of the NewZealand shooter still up on Brazilian facebook

botwriter··on Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]
Traffickcam is a fantastic idea I'll certainly use that.
botwriter··on Tracing child abusers: Where was this picture taken? [video]
Just re-read that.

I don't mean to view actual child abuse images but similar to the europol thing ie the actual victims deleted from the images.

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