Inactive Byuu / byuu_nyan / setsunakun0 / Near / David Ginder - "Non-binary" furry programmer who wrote a Super Nintendo emulator, tried to blackmail Null into removing his thread, and is probably actually dead lol

[Kiwi & Cow]

Pretty sure that the guy to the left of Soundflora is Hector, so there's a very high chance of RL association (a):
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Loving how the shirt he's wearing + the lack of brows make him look like a crossbreed between Chris Chan and JustinRPG.

 

[Blue Whirlwind]

Loving how the shirt he's wearing + the lack of brows make him look like a crossbreed between Chris Chan and JustinRPG.

Thought no one else saw that. The autist look suits him though

 

[Random Internet Person]

A youtuber made a video on the situation a few months ago and it's extremely informative for anyone who isn't up to speed about the situation and is curious.

Watched it, and honestly, it should be added to the OP. Or an updated one similar to what Lowtax got.

 

[Temperance]

Here's an old Twitter conversation from Marcan that I found interesting:
https://nitter.net/marcan42/status/1422261500459184131#m


tl;dr Marcan tries to use Byuu's death against the RetroArch devs, but gets completely dismantled by some random guy. I don't know the details, but apparently Byuu had a dispute with RetroArch in the past, but they quashed it and even worked together for a few years. Marcan tried to stir up this old drama for some reason, but he just comes off as very stupid and disingenuous here.

In my opinion, Byuu's main goal with the fake suicide was to "kill off" his old Internet personas so he could start anew at some point in the future. He sought the help of a couple close friends (particularly Marcan) to orchestrate this, and Marcan agreed to help since it would give him ammunition in his weird feuds against Kiwifarms, RetroArch, and probably others I don't know about. He has very clearly weaponized Byuu's "death", which is suspicious.

BTW, this David Fleetwood guy isn't even a troll or anything, just a left-wing Twitter guy who was an acquaintance of Byuu.


Here's another interesting Twitter conversation with Marcan trying to attack Richard Stallman (RMS) for being against cancel culture. Note that this predates Byuu's fake suicide, but Marcan still mentions the Kiwifarms.
https://nitter.net/marcan42/status/1377542987694043138#m

"...one of the people voicing support for RMS by signing his letter is the founder of Kiwi Farms, a notorious website devoted to doxxing and harassing people, usually minorities."
That goddamn JOSHUA CONNER MOON strikes again! How dare he sign some Internet letter/petition.

Also: "Those people are saying they support RMS, but they aren't offering any evidence that RMS isn't, in fact, misbehaving."
Marcan is too talented of a programmer to be this bad at logical thinking. It has to be intentional & malicious.
He's criticizing people for not proving a negative. Eerily similar to how he and other Twitter idiots have been criticizing KF for being unable to definitely prove that Byuu isn't dead, even though the burden of proof is on them to prove their claim that he killed himself.

 

[ScooterL]

tl;dr Marcan tries to use Byuu's death against the RetroArch devs

Hoaxin' Hector trying to get maximum value out of the fake suicide. He wants to use it to smear as many of his perceived enemies as he can.

Unfortunately for him, it was a really weak hoax.

Marcan is too talented of a programmer to be this bad at logical thinking. It has to be intentional & malicious.

Compartmentalisation. The woke impulse isn't about logic, it's about impulse and gratification.

Interesting that Hector already had the Farms in his sights before the hoax was executed. Good find.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Here's an old Twitter conversation from Marcan that I found interesting:
https://nitter.net/marcan42/status/1422261500459184131#m

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tl;dr Marcan tries to use Byuu's death against the RetroArch devs, but gets completely dismantled by some random guy. I don't know the details, but apparently Byuu had a dispute with RetroArch in the past, but they quashed it and even worked together for a few years. Marcan tried to stir up this old drama for some reason, but he just comes off as very stupid and disingenuous here.

In my opinion, Byuu's main goal with the fake suicide was to "kill off" his old Internet personas so he could start anew at some point in the future. He sought the help of a couple close friends (particularly Marcan) to orchestrate this, and Marcan agreed to help since it would give him ammunition in his weird feuds against Kiwifarms, RetroArch, and probably others I don't know about. He has very clearly weaponized Byuu's "death", which is suspicious.

BTW, this David Fleetwood guy isn't even a troll or anything, just a left-wing Twitter guy who was an acquaintance of Byuu.
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His agenda against RetroArch is highly striking of his agenda against KiwiFarms.

- Source is some random anonymous individual whose word we simply have to trust (nobody has ever claimed to be behind RetroArchLeaks, 4chan anonymous posters are not credible)
- Supposed evidence is easily doctored and out of context (doctoring text-only logs is really easy, and seriously literally anyone can say "I'm a RetroArch dev" on 4chan)
- No other evidence exists to corroborate with this evidence
- Even if the evidence is true, it doesn't prove his argument in any way. (You can look at the leaked chat logs themselves, they were not "trolling Byuu publicly" they were simply shit talking him while he was never in the room. The logs are cited in the RA thread languishing in PG, there's a reason it stayed in PG. The dox list did not target Byuu, it targeted other emulator developers, how could Byuu be affected).
- When asked to prove that his evidence is genuine, he just goes "no u" and puts the burden of proof on the asker (that's not how it works, Hector).
- Blocks people who disagree with him, can't have anyone questioning the narrative.

He also seems really uncomfortable with the fact that he's being a KF to RA, with the (mistaken) implication that "talking about someone negatively = harassing them" and all that being an "evil harasser" implies too.

"...one of the people voicing support for RMS by signing his letter is the founder of Kiwi Farms, a notorious website devoted to doxxing and harassing people, usually minorities."
That goddamn JOSHUA CONNER MOON strikes again! How dare he sign some Internet letter/petition.

He literally just decided to bring up KF out of completely nowhere. That's like those people who think ebil nazis are around every corner everywhere they go. He must have a premeditated agenda against this place.

Also: "Those people are saying they support RMS, but they aren't offering any evidence that RMS isn't, in fact, misbehaving."
Marcan is too talented of a programmer to be this bad at logical thinking. It has to be intentional & malicious.
He's criticizing people for not proving a negative.

He's also missing the point. They signed in support of RMS because they don't give half a shit whether RMS is "misbehaving." They support him because they recognize (correctly) that RMS is important to the movement and him being gone would be a detrimental loss, furthermore the reason he was removed will also harm the community because it results in more and more purity spirals of the sort that evicted him. That's of course besides the fact that RMS is not misbehaving and he had every right to say the things he did about his friend Minsky.

 

[AnOminous]

He literally just decided to bring up KF out of completely nowhere. That's like those people who think ebil nazis are around every corner everywhere they go. He must have a premeditated agenda against this place.

Screeching about Kiwi Farms is just a way extremely terrible people announce their presence to each other, like a hanky code.

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Note that this predates Byuu's fake suicide, but Marcan still mentions the Kiwifarms.

Tinfoil hat time: what if Dave actually killed himself and is that one suicide in the report predating the entire drama and everything else - including communication with Null - was Hector and friends' autistic gayop?

 

[PaulBearer]

Tinfoil hat time: what if Dave actually killed himself and is that one suicide in the report predating the entire drama and everything else - including communication with Null - was Hector and friends' autistic gayop?

That would explain a lot.

 

[Temperance]

Information on Alia E. Dastagir, the reporter who wrote the USA Today article (and Yahoo mirror) about Byuu's "suicide".

​	https://muckrack.com/alia-dastagir/articles https://twitter.com/alia_e https://www.facebook.com/AliaDastagir https://www.linkedin.com/in/aliadastagir Alia E. Dastagir 9 September 1983 NY Voter ID: NY000000000057488785 22 Wells Ln. Stony Brook, NY 11790-1116 Democrat

More dox:

A little tidbit on the Journo that e-mailed Jersh, specifically omitted 90% of his statement, and wrote the article using @Wayne Beckett as her sole credible source for the entire debacle:

Alia E. Dastagir
09/09/1983 (Age 39)
22 Wells Ln, Stony Brook, NY 11790 (Sold for $1.9 million in 2019)

https://www.mylife.com/alia-dastagir/e1273110303930

https://archive.md/OJOse

Alia Dastagir

Alia Dastagir has worked at USA TODAY for nearly eight years, beginning on the audience team where she helped drive innovative storytelling and presentation. She transitioned to a full-time reporter role covering cultural issues on topics ranging from sexism and racism to media ethics and mental...

mentalhealthjournalism.org

https://archive.md/iQvYI

https://twitter.com/alia_e

https://archive.md/W3k4G

Alia Dastagir has worked at USA TODAY for nearly eight years, beginning on the audience team where she helped drive innovative storytelling and presentation. She transitioned to a full-time reporter role covering cultural issues on topics ranging from sexism and racism to media ethics and mental health.

As expected, her beat is primarily mental health, racism, and sexism. She has no education whatsoever in mental health, and her master's degree is in journalism. Some previous articles by her include:

The imaginary predator in America's transgender bathroom war​

https://archive.md/UMT4l

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Young, transgender and fighting a years-long battle against suicidal thoughts

https://archive.md/4JD5k

LGBTQ Definitions every good ally should know​

https://archive.md/Yvrug

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You're sexist. And so am I.​

https://archive.md/VN6SF

And yeah, it's interesting to note that when Alia Dastagir contacted Null for a comment on the article, she used only a tiny snippet:

Kiwi Farms' founder Josh Moon posted a statement on his site denying responsibility, and noted in an email to USA TODAY that "there is no evidence of any harassment."

What Null actually wrote:


If you take a look at her Muckrack, you can get a pretty good idea about what Alia Dastagir normally writes about. Typical jouroscum with meaningless articles.

Spoiler: Her 24 most recent articles - Warning: Big Image

Most of her recent articles are about Amber Heard, the Kardashians, or Roe v. Wade.


Here she is retweeting the infamous Taylor Lorenz about the woes of being a journalist. And below, she supports Felicia Sonmez - the BPD journalist who was recently fired from The Washington Post for causing a shitstorm of drama over a mild joke from a colleague. Birds of a feather...



Earlier this year, Alia Dastagir earned the ire of A&N by publishing an article about "The Complicated Research Behind Pedophilia". She tries to suggest that pedophilia is a "misunderstood" sexual disorder and implies that maybe it should be destigmatized. Real smooth...
This article upset more than just Kiwifarms users: https://thepostmillennial.com/usa-t...sial-pedophilia-tweets-stealth-edits-headline [A&N]

USA Today attempted to reframe the controversial topic of pedophilia as something that's "misunderstood." A majority of the piece brings up how child molesters complicate the public image of pedophiles.

USA Today later deleted a thread of tweets that espoused the same talking points from the article and were met with a heavy ratio on Twitter.

The headline has been edited from "What the public keeps getting wrong about pedophilia" to "The complicated research behind pedophilia."

(It should be noted that in the original "for subscribers" blurb, USA Today went with "Pedophiles and child molesters are not the same thing. Understand the difference" for the piece's preview.)

In conclusion, there's probably a 0% chance of Alia Dastagir retracting or updating her article on Byuu's "suicide". It was always meant to be a blatant hitpiece.
Also, she's scum and possibly a pedophile.

 

[5t3n0g0ph3r]

There's a reason why journos are bottom-feeding scum.

 

[myshkin]

Her LinkedIn 'About' blurb makes me want to never read any article she would ever write.

As a reporter for USA TODAY covering culture, I write news stories and analysis on topics ranging
from sexism and racism to mental health and morality. My stories have explored the lack of funding for suicide research, connections between guns and masculinity, the health impacts of microaggressions, and progress of #MeToo.

 

[Gamercat]

this is why critical thinking is important.

 

[myshkin]

And of course she reported uncritically about the Smollett hoax when it happend

 

[FarCentrist]

Screeching about Kiwi Farms is just a way extremely terrible people announce their presence to each other, like a hanky code.

Some people have secret handshakes. Trannies ree about that furry fruit farm website.

 

[Rakoon]

Shannon entropy calculates the episode string "aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvZTczYzk5OGUtNmU2MC00MzJmLTg2MTAtYWUyMTAxNDBjNWIxL2U1ZjkxMjA4LWNjN2UtNDcyNi1hMzEyLWFlMjgwMTQwYWQxMS9kNjRmNzU2ZC02ZDVlLTRmYWUtYjI0Zi1hZTI4MDE0MGFkMzYvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M" to be 1290 bits of data, encoded perfectly. That is an absurd decision on Google's part. That's over 10 UUIDs of data. Pajeetware. Literally use a GUID instead.

(Assuming https://www.shannonentropy.netmark.pl/calculate works correctly. Estimates match my intuition.)

You... you know this is not an ID, right?

 

[El Goblina]

You... you know this is not an ID, right?

That's exactly my point: this chunk of ~1290 bits of state should be wrapped with a GUID which can then be used to represent it.

 

[AnOminous]

That's exactly my point: this chunk of ~1290 bits of state should be wrapped with a GUID which can then be used to represent it.

I believe it has been estimated that something between 32-35 bytes (280 bits) would be enough to enumerate every atom in the known universe with an individual designation.

 

[Rakoon]

That's exactly my point: this chunk of ~1290 bits of state should be wrapped with a GUID which can then be used to represent it.

Maybe base64 decoding it would add some more meaning?

 

[Von Wolf Demon]

Was that autistic faggot already on estrogen? Because he has some serious gynecomastia going on there, the fat fuck.

Also, what's wrong with Hector's hairline? And his weird eye spacing? And his mouth? Everything looks fucked up and distorted. Kind of reminds me of Chaggot but without the noticeable conehead.