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edgineer commented on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse   bbc.com/news/articles/cx2... · Posted by u/colinprince
alsetmusic · 25 days ago
> an encampment under a freeway in Florida as it was the only place people on the sex offender registry could legally live

I listened to a podcast that talked about this encampment years ago. The people living there are quite literally trapped. They aren't allowed to move to another city because of their parole and the city they are in has no other location that isn't within some distance of schools, playgrounds, etc that they're forbidden from being near.

One person interviewed had some petty offense like peeing in public when drunk and talked about the violence and crime that occurred in the camp. Listening to him made me so angry at the injustice that people caught in edge cases are subjected to. He drinks too much, pees on the side of a building, and is now forced to live among rapists and predators.

The OP mentioned high school students in totally normal relationships being criminalized. Another example given in the podcast ep was teens sending nude selfies to their bf/gf that got charged and convicted for distributing csam. This is not how enforcement of these laws should work. I'm glad I grew up before smart phones cause I was really stupid when I was a teen.

Meanwhile, if you're a rich old white guy…

edgineer · 25 days ago
The only case of public urination -> sex offender which people can point to is Juan Matamoros. He claims this, but the actual case is too old to verify it, and we should not take his word for it.

Arrested in Massachusetts in 1986, charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness, sentenced to two years.

As of [0] lived in Florida, and was in jail for violating probation on a charge of cocaine possession with the intent to sell.

From the article: Paul Mishkin, the Boston lawyer who represented Matamoros in 1986, could not recall details of the case this week, but said it was clear the judge considered the incident very serious.

“He [Matamoros] told his side of the story to the judge, but clearly there was evidence that made the judge disagree,” said Mishkin. “A two-year sentence in this incident is a fairly severe sentence. You’d have to think there’s evidence to support that.”

[0] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2007/03/21/long-ago-charge-t...

edgineer commented on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification   matrix.org/blog/2026/02/w... · Posted by u/foresto
ranger_danger · a month ago
FWIW It's done on the client side and there are multiple ways to bypass it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982421

https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/now-bypass-disc...

edgineer · a month ago
Things are changing quickly. Some users are being allowed only 3rd party age verification.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/12/discord-uk-age-verificatio...

edgineer commented on Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook   techrepublic.com/article/... · Posted by u/saikatsg
zero-sharp · 2 months ago
So I just searched my email on HIBP again. Most of the leaks I see there were from old websites I hardly cared about securing from many years ago. But, in general, how do I find out what has actually been leaked (if it's not website specific)?

I'm not going to change all of my passwords every time a random website that I used briefly ten years ago leaks my low effort password.

edgineer · 2 months ago
There are sites for searching for your (or anyone else's) publicly revealed information, but the one free one I knew of was forced offline.

Downloading the datasets--there are so many with so few options to obtain them. The mega-compilations likely won't include everything, either, like your license plate numbers or all your compromised addresses, nor the site from which hackers stole it.

So basically don't bother. If you want the same experience, open up notepad, HIBP, and your password manager, and make a little doxx file on yourself, in CSV or JSON.

edgineer commented on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news   niemanlab.org/2026/01/aft... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
could-of · 2 months ago
The guidelines on gender identity are based on the BLP policies [1], which call for taking harm into account and not going into excess detail on someone's personal life.

Everything people are upset over in this thread is explained clearly in the BLP section on privacy, the gender identity section of the Manual of Style [2], and this essay on gender identity [3].

This particular example is completely clear-cut. Sources didn't cover them at all under any previous names because they're only known from one event. Someone who isn't transgender would be covered the exact same way. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a gossip rag.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_livin...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Biog...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Gender_identity

edgineer · 2 months ago
Benedict became notable because of her death; Biographies of Living Persons has a privacy section that gives reasoning. These reasons, e.g. identity theft, complaint from the person, harassment, can not apply to a deceased person.

News articles did cover Benedict under the name Dagny.

As far as policies go, this page should be titled "Suicide of Nex Benedict" according to this policy [0], yet the talk on that subject ended with "closed with no consensus to move." [1]

This does speak to the selective application and selective enforcement of policies on Wikipedia. But I was most concerned to learn about how scrubbing the histories of pages is official policy itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Choosing_article_tit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Death_of_Nex_Benedict/Arc...

edgineer commented on After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news   niemanlab.org/2026/01/aft... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
edgineer · 2 months ago
The page is protected, the general public can't edit it.

There was already discussion on the talk page, "Should Nex's given name be included?" with consensus of "no." That discussion was archived, but you can see it here [0].

From what I can see, the word "Dagny" has been retroactively redacted from all history of the page and its talk page.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Death_of_Nex...

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edgineer commented on Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash, NTSB report says   bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091
jacquesm · 2 months ago
They certainly have a responsibility towards their passengers that goes beyond their relationship with Boeing. Passengers trust airlines with their lives, with Boeing they have 'just' a business relationship.

Airlines have every reason to be skeptical of their supplier even if they do not have the engineering competence to second guess them. They could for instance look through their past communications with the manufacturer and see for themselves which advisories they agree with because for instance they are obviously not safety critical, this would then allow them hire specialists to evaluate the remainder for a second opinion.

edgineer · 2 months ago
There were no passengers on the accident aircraft.
edgineer commented on Lock-Picking Robot   github.com/etinaude/Lock-... · Posted by u/p44v9n
ghurtado · 2 months ago
Originally the word "hacker" made no distinction between the two meanings. This site is pretty old, so you're right, it was intended in the original "Kevin Mitnik" sense (the original hacker, who ironically would fall outside of the modern definition)

The modern acception focused on online computer security came much later. That meaning is neither the one used in the name of this site nor the one that would be relevant to this conversation.

To summarize: today's hackers are also yesterday's hackers, but yesterday's hackers may or may not be modern hackers.

edgineer · 2 months ago
The Guinness book of world records listed Kevin as the world's most notorious hacker, not the first.

They did retract they record for its lack of objectivity.

edgineer commented on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales   electrek.co/2026/01/13/fo... · Posted by u/MBCook
alexjplant · 2 months ago
> A pickup truck should just be max utility, especially if you're a manufacturer making your first one

The modern US pickup truck isn't built for utility. It's a $60,000 four-door lifted luxobarge with leather interior and a short bed. It signals (perceived) wealth while preserving working-class alignment. It can also be justified by way of having to pick up used furniture for TikTok refinish and flip projects or bimonthly runs to Home Depot to buy caulk and lightbulbs. Independent tradesman can write them off as work vehicles or, allegedly, use COVID-era PPP loans to buy them.

It's the suburban equivalent of a yuppie's Rolex Submariner. Investment bankers generally don't go scuba diving and if they did a dive computer would be vastly preferable.

I say all of that to say that making a pickup truck for that market segment isn't a bad idea from a numbers perspective. You just can't market it as a luxury vehicle because the whole point is that it is but it isn't.

edgineer · 2 months ago
That's opinion/stereotype, and unsupported. From Rob Cockerham's experiment (2002):

"I guessed that 98% of all truck beds are empty"

"In 25 minutes I had counted 150 trucks, and 99 of them had been empty. This 66% empty ratio was much lower than I had expected. I hadn't realized that so many trucks were being so successfully utilized."

"The results were similar: 39% of the trucks were hauling goods, and 61 of them were empty"

"Along with this adjustment of my perception, I also realized that an empty truck is no more wasteful than an empty back seat. Most cars AND trucks in the US drive around with 75% of the cargo space unutilized...what difference does it make if it is interior or exterior space?"

https://cockeyed.com/science/data/truck_beds/truck_beds.html

edgineer commented on Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown, phones back. How to stay resilient?    · Posted by u/us321
literallywho · 2 months ago
> You can combine the phone tree with literal runners

And I thought Mirror’s Edge world was too far fetched back in 2008. But, apparently, it’s the reality now or where things are headed after all.

edgineer · 2 months ago
Using couriers, and not phones, was largely how bin Laden escaped capture for so long. Took months to track a courier back to him.

u/edgineer

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