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sadboi31on 'Expulsion to Spain': Israeli Hackers Flock to Barcelona in Big Spyware Shift

I hate to spread FUD but tor alone is rather weak. Whonix(nested) helps but even that isn't enough for me.

You need to have your own nodes up and running completely divorced from your own identity as well as a record of known-bad tor nodes.

You need something to download and relay information to you across multiple protocols with significant delay and a lot of other mixed media streaming in.

There are lots of university labs across the globe that do a much better job than me.

It's undoubtedly insane but masked memes does did enough to put my mind at ease when handling radioactive information when i still considered myself a part of "tech".

It took hours to DL stuff securely but it could turn any pdf/website into a couple thousand high-quality shitposts across the clear-web. You just need a big library.

sadboi31on Ask HN: How do I learn data journalism?

Printing this out for some people, thanks for sharing this.

sadboi31on Ask HN: How do I learn data journalism?

Drop an email if you want some stories. Check out my comments if you want to get a general vibe of how crazy I am.

In the absence of that I would really encourage you to get familiar w/ QGIS and EU satellite data.

sadboi31on Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them

Shoshana Zuboff's book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is a great intro if you're looking for some talking points to help articulate thought along this vein.

sadboi31on Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

If i were interested in argument I'd cite dozens of papers from https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/

But whenever i've done so from alt accounts I get brigaded. I have literally paid people to edit comments to improve my tone and it makes no difference.

I'm just sharing a small, honest, account of lived experience. I come here for discussion. Not debate. certainly not argument. If i present myself incorrectly I try to act reflexively and openly.

Some people want to discount that and make everything fact based but sometimes sharing facts on the wrong forum just further reinforces injustice.

I do 20+ pushups, crunches, or burpees in between posts across the web. lol

sadboi31on Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

Yeah, no. They absolutely did not do everything in their capacity. The complete opposite is my anecdotal unsourced take.

I worked w/ a woman who used 1000s of sockpuppets of soldiers near military bases to try to wax out information about the aggression associated with their suggestion algorithms.

Pornhub is worse than YT when it comes to encouraging radicalism. She didn't even get to publish and she would receive dildos, fleshlights, and other horrific things. She left the country.

sadboi31on Overgeneral Autobiographical Memory

I feel like I definitely suffer from this. I used to be able to recall everything but a lifetime of trauma online has given me definitive bitrot brain.

sadboi31on H5N1: Much More Than You Wanted to Know

The US government was also recorded (and confirmed) as dumping TONS of covid misinformation throughout the entire world. Leaks from a defense contractor showed as much.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covi...

Helping a local org give thousands of covid shots to seniors, people living in congregate housing, etc# was not easy because there was a lot of resistance from these communities due to the massive amounts of scary information out there.

If you want an example see this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360815298_Foreign_M...

It really felt like there was literally nothing wholesome on anyones feeds for almost an entire year. Limited exposure from all non-profits i know of in my community. Significantly reduced views, deleted posts, erroneous flags, etc#.....

Meanwhile, everyone in every neighborhood gets nothing but images + videos of people dying or getting sick from "the jab", "5g", "the mark of the beast", etc#

Most of the women running these non-profits are former executives, local gov't officials, or workers in DHS or other like agencies. They're not stupid and incapable of "getting a message out". Something is and was seriously wrong w/ operation lightspeed.

sadboi31on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia

Yeah they do. Check out the 764 cult + project gladio. Lots of assassinations towards left-leaning folks. Atleast two such cases recorded on forensic architecture of murders of hacktivists going unchecked after quiet obviously being staged by intelligence agencies. One in Germany and one at a BLM event.

I wont speak more on it here but I can think of atleast 6 people i've known closely who've just gone completely dark online + in their community after anti-govt organization. I assume they're dead.

sadboi31on Show HN: Open-source security user analytics

just sent a pretty wild message across the waves. No real information about our clients in there but a lot about me + my biz partner since we're the ones w/ our heads out.

The main client we're supporting is a former telecom executive who I suspect has just been talking to a bunch of bots for the last 6mo+ across mediums so i'm trying to safeguard her against any more unknowns since she's old and I can't do much to help.

i'm currently drowning trying to support another client (a black church) that comes closer to direct health services that has had even stranger problems over the last 2 years imo.

sadboi31on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated 'Users' No One Asked For

check out project gladio on peertube. Some other good content here in spanish if that's your thing: https://kolektiva.media/c/stuartchristiearchive/videos

i think you know you're not wrong though, haha.

sadboi31on Show HN: Open-source security user analytics

Let me know if you are interested in supporting more users. Currently trying to find something for someone on a low-budget (in a non-profit) managing sensitive health data...

sadboi31on Agentarium: Creating social simulations with AI Agents

Easy to digest to me is a matter of process plus order. Just because you can boof wine/ai and feel a greater high than if you just took a sip doesn't mean you should. I'd start by setting the table and throwing out your last meal. start over in the 60s and work forward.

stafford beer on cybernetics (also worth mention, norbert weiner): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6orMfmorg

Lots of other people start w/ other things but i'm a mgmt minded person so a social engineering + psychology + anthropology oriented lens has always been my anchor.

My first real intro to math where everything clicked was w/ primitive graph theory as it were 2000+ years ago. From there, algebra, geometry, trig, calc, etc# started clicking.

sadboi31on Jimmy Carter has died

Well, the ottomans have tax records going back hundreds of years so....

sadboi31on 38C3: Illegal Instructions

Sounds like you're in a bind friend

sadboi31on Is Societal Collapse Inevitable?

His other work "information hazards" is brilliant. Definitely a must-read if you are someone interested in talking about topics like the OSS/CIA + communications technology with people who have more lived trauma or exist in sensitive public spaces.

My PoV is that we have lived in that very system for 30-40 years. I blame a poor interpretation of "limits to growth" for most of the worlds problem (no fault of the other of course). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

insane link but i don't want to wrap it in a shortener. Check Don's website for more content.

If you really want to hop into some scary stuff check this out: https://www.nano.gov/timeline and https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/aiei/new-war-te...

On the less spooky more preventative side of things def watch some videos from stafford beer on cybernetics and see if any of his written works interest you.

sadboi31on Is Societal Collapse Inevitable?

I think you'd enjoy this. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

"Abstract: Scientific and technological progress might change people’s capabilities or incentives in ways that would destabilize civilization. For example, advances in DIY biohacking tools might make it easy for anybody with basic training in biology to kill millions; novel military technologies could trigger arms races in which whoever strikes first has a decisive advantage; or some economically advantageous process may be invented that produces disastrous...."

sadboi31on Cyborg Insect Factory

Brings this to mind: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf

sadboi31on Llama.cpp Now Supports Qwen2-VL (Vision Language Model)

https://huggingface.co/datasets/TIGER-Lab/MathInstruct

Works with +700 year old books w some tweaks. took like $400 to train. can't share more because i don't know more.

sadboi31on I made a free Figma library packed with components for fast prototyping

Yeah absolutely. There is a plugin for importing. Some small things like fonts and such might break sometimes but it has otherwise worked for 80%+ of everything i've downloaded off ui8

sadboi31on Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, etc.

Citation indexes are the devil and Google is hell. Try as you might to avoid it but you're already on an index. Security through obscurity isn't secure or obscure in this modern age. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03054985.2024.2...

sadboi31on [dead]

For anyone else who knows better:

palestinelove.org

crimesbyisrael.com

tiktokgenocide.com

sadboi31on The 1-HR nurse visits that cost $15B to Medicare

In my city (Pittsburgh) over half of the workers who work at our largest healthcare provider surveyed have some kind of debt to that same entity. My own mother is one of those people and she has been climbing for years. Funny how that works.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/union-raises-c...

sadboi31on Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice?

You only need to compete in dev/IT when you lack relationships. It's not about raw talent or raw output but instead absolute trust. Confidence that you (or whoever) has a good sense of direction and is grounded in their work. I don't trust anyone in this industry who has never had a mentor. I would never work with anyone else in this industry who is themselves not already a part of an active community where they are valued and can make their own valued relationships/experiences. An eagerness to "do more" is great but i'm more worried about ones' ethics under immense strain.

sadboi31on [dead]

Israelis claim it's justified. Everything is legitimate when the person captured is a terrorist. Forcing one prisoner to rape another or instead be raped by dogs is completely ordinary. https://youtu.be/7qxSGBggbO4&t=343

sadboi31on FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)

They want accelerometer, temperature and other sensor data too where possible. Not just information on the strength of the wifi/cellular signal (and your estimated location). SIM cards can do the most on qualcomm devices.

Poking into both of these systems outside of a lab is definitely a violation of the law ordinarily and it's pretty hard to test this in a lab.

sadboi31on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?

I would argue that everyone over the age of 8 can do it with sufficient motivation and quality documentation. $10-20 and the promise of more money doing some low-effort "consumer survey" or providing "extra analytics" is pretty enticing to a massive number of people really struggling in this country.

Despite being hard-up I don't think the vast majority of these low-income individuals would agree to being so egregiously wiretapped and data mined for future political ads on youtube or bundled into some other product without better compensation.

sadboi31on FTC launches probe into 'surveillance pricing'

No because the pricing is based on the perception of actual person/distinct (lived) personality. It's hard to capture these things in a purely headless way. You need to feed realistic sensor(wifi/bt/mic) data + location data (gps + wifi) to get accurate ads.

Without doing anything illegal and without broadcasting your intent on trying to espouse something criminal maybe pretend to have an affair (and encourage others to pretend to do the same or similar).

Separate communication apps on disposable visa, different google playstore account, different phone number, etc#. Trust that wifi+bluetooth+cellular proximity will link the phones together.

After a few weeks-months that second phone should be the similar enough to their actual profile for you to setup a remote residential proxy (w/ effective split tunnelling setup) for other people to funnel unique but similar requests through.

sadboi31on Show HN: I made a WordPress plugin that makes plugins with AI

To flesh this out further, consider the networking and security model around networking as an extention of this tool perhaps. I feel like there is a lot of room for innovation in the wordpress honeypot scene.

Short of that tighter integration with known quality tools/frameworks for wordpress like ACF, ACPT, Flynt, Bedrock, etc# might help.

sadboi31on Ties between Google's Project Nimbus and Israel's military

yeah you're right, it's a nakba. something far worse. once the sanctions come down the american public will get learned on their history.