The Great Twitter Meltdown of 2021 - Emulator creator Byuu bullied to death by HateSpeech™ forum, Twitter takes up arms (Still No Death Report)

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Will This Be Of Any Consequence?

  • Yes, Kiwi Farms terrorists will be publicly hanged

    Votes: 801 14.4%
  • Yes, Kiwi Farms will be shut down

    Votes: 101 1.8%
  • No, 41% the army has already taken 41% casualties

    Votes: 1,955 35.1%
  • No, this backfires and MATI goes viral

    Votes: 786 14.1%
  • REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

    Votes: 1,927 34.6%

  • Total voters
    5,570
Oh no bros, twitter is going to sue the kiwi farms!
Another laughable "threat". There's no way they're going to successfully make this happen because
1) They have no official proof of Byuu's fate, whether he's alive or dead
2) Their entire source to the case is a mysterious Google doc that just materialized out of nowhere riddled with oddities
3) The judge will look at Byuu's thread and see no signs of actual harassment
4) They're just a bunch of kids stuck online
 
@Null pls no bully for the tag, but if you don't already have a 'hide thread' feature on this site it might be an idea in future. Given the thread was dead, you could have hidden it for a month and no one would have known, then quietly make it reappear.

I know I know, you're appeasing a mentally ill tranny (I said mentally ill twice), but it may help if this comes up again in future
 
@Null pls no bully for the tag, but if you don't already have a 'hide thread' feature on this site it might be an idea in future. Given the thread was dead, you could have hidden it for a month and no one would have known, then quietly make it reappear.

I know I know, you're appeasing a mentally ill tranny (I said mentally ill twice), but it may help if this comes up again in future
There's a reason you don't negotiate with people who are famous for taking a mile when you give them an inch. Also this entire situation reeked of entrapment.
 
@Null pls no bully for the tag, but if you don't already have a 'hide thread' feature on this site it might be an idea in future. Given the thread was dead, you could have hidden it for a month and no one would have known, then quietly make it reappear.

I know I know, you're appeasing a mentally ill tranny (I said mentally ill twice), but it may help if this comes up again in future
I'm still convinced this happened partially because jersh removed pics of that one ex-troon so whoever did this used it as a vector for attack
 
I understand why you shouldnt negotiate with them, I was merely suggesting a way to get them to fuck off for a while, so that something real doesnt happen to the site. Its not giving them an inch if you inch back when they arent looking.

The vote to remove that other thread (was it Bryans?) was also an innovative and clever way to deal with it.
 
I understand why you shouldnt negotiate with them, I was merely suggesting a way to get them to fuck off for a while, so that something real doesnt happen to the site. Its not giving them an inch if you inch back when they arent looking.

The vote to remove that other thread (was it Bryans?) was also an innovative and clever way to deal with it.
The people involved in this situation don't go away if you apologize, they double down and keep demanding more til you decide they're asking for too much, then they go back to square one. You end up compromising your principles for them and they don't give a shit unless your presence is obliterated off the internet in the most humiliating way they can think of.
 
I understand why you shouldnt negotiate with them, I was merely suggesting a way to get them to fuck off for a while, so that something real doesnt happen to the site. Its not giving them an inch if you inch back when they arent looking.
Problem is once you show you're willing to be weak even if it's not genuine, they won't stop attacking
The vote to remove that other thread (was it Bryans?) was also an innovative and clever way to deal with it.
While I do feel sympathy for her, it set a precedent that with a sob story you can get something removed, which probably lead to this
 
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Titles changing?

@Null pls no bully for the tag, but if you don't already have a 'hide thread' feature on this site it might be an idea in future. Given the thread was dead, you could have hidden it for a month and no one would have known, then quietly make it reappear.

I know I know, you're appeasing a mentally ill tranny (I said mentally ill twice), but it may help if this comes up again in future
Why?
 
I have been arguing with myself about this from the first email. He was heavily involved in cryptography, he could have easily added a PGP sig. There have been other times people tried to elaborately hoax KF, like the false DMCA with the fake lawyer website. I don't recall the details, but it should be in the "Get My Shit Off the Internet" thread.

Does anyone know if it would be possible to write a script to archive the Hacker News activity? I guess it would just be rejected as spam? There's just too much to do manually (without a lot of hands on deck). He seems to be less cautious with his information in the past.

Here are his first 2 pages of activity in 2012:
Page 01 (Archive)
Page 02 (Archive)
Here is a post from 2015 where he talks about his job:
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Source (Archive)
Got the links. Can't script getting them into archive.md. edit: Did get them into the wayback machine but archive.md would be more ideal if anyone is up for it.
They're in order though if that helps

It may be almost as easy to get the links to the threads all of his posts are in as well but I'm not sure how helpful that would be and I'm not able to do it right now.
 
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I have been arguing with myself about this from the first email. He was heavily involved in cryptography, he could have easily added a PGP sig. There have been other times people tried to elaborately hoax KF, like the false DMCA with the fake lawyer website. I don't recall the details, but it should be in the "Get My Shit Off the Internet" thread.

Does anyone know if it would be possible to write a script to archive the Hacker News activity? I guess it would just be rejected as spam? There's just too much to do manually (without a lot of hands on deck). He seems to be less cautious with his information in the past.

Here are his first 2 pages of activity in 2012:
Page 01 (Archive)
Page 02 (Archive)
Here is a post from 2015 where he talks about his job:
View attachment 2309731
Source (Archive)
Not really too sure, but there probably is a method of writing a script to shift through the posts associated with his username, and then have it go through the accordion block to the just retrieve the tags associated with near, and just copy the string.

Along with have the script target the URL ID paramater and have it just manually increment the page number, until it grabbed all the posts. It really would be more of a matter of the convention of how they structured the URL ID tag when they wrote their indexing system, which at that point it becomes a whole different project. That would be my starting basis for developing that type of tool.

Honestly it would be a better effort to just scrub through it. All things considered, there are probably archival tools out there already for this type of thing. On top of that, there could be some good leads in these posts that might give an idea of his activities. I would have to say the million dollar ticket is find what company he ended up doing software engineering for, especially with his move to Japan.

There are employee records and surely being one of the few white guys in a sea of yellow it should not be too hard to find him. Especially if there is a timeframe established, which would be latter half of 2018. Not sure what the metadata in the photos he took indicate either, whether or not he was careful enough to scrub that before sending it to Null. Which if he was a fit of delusion, he might not of been the most cautious.

This could help in potentially cross referencing an image, incase he used the same device to take photos if anyone finds a blog, or something hidden with whatever name we end up finding. Near baited the farms with his necking threats and these concidental attacks. Seeing he is a fan of using the same handle a crossed everything, along with giving out just a too few many personal details, he will be found, so we can verify whether or not he is okay or not.

Does anyone have details on the spouse? Along with any information regarding the marriage, could be clues in the registry of the state he got married in.

Nvm here it is!
 
What the fuck happened to the tech community? Entirely composed of NPC's now. I guess this is what happens when the technical barriers to entry rapidly drop through the floor. Here are recent caps from the Hacker News thread on the current events. HN is an image-board like forum dedicated to industry discussion:
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There are a number of HN users that are not histrionic, but they are very much fighting an uphill battle.
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Here is an uncharacteristically reasonable post with a response by Byuu/Near from an earlier HN thread dated March 2020 featuring Kiwi Farms:
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I've also attached Byuu's post history going back to mid-2019, with the most recent activity within about 10 days of the most recent event. I couldn't archive more than the first page of activity due to the way the profile pages are rendered.

I have not read his extensive history. It seems to be mostly just shop-talk. It's possible that early posts may yield some information. He appears to have to just changed his username when moving from "Byuu" to "Near" and the account was created in 2012:
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Attached are full page caps for all of this content, which are too large to post inline.
In all seriousness, they're bots now, sort of mental cyborg without the physical traits. Somewhere along the lines to understanding AI and how to make it think like a person, we crossed a threshold and people became infected with a virus of the mind, a mental illness caused by exposure to viral code.

It sounds whacky, but it's the only explanation I have that in some strange way, makes sense and explains the NPC nature of people nowadays.
 
What the fuck happened to the tech community? Entirely composed of NPC's now. I guess this is what happens when the technical barriers to entry rapidly drop through the floor. Here are recent caps from the Hacker News thread on the current events. HN is an image-board like forum dedicated to industry discussion:
View attachment 2309561
There are a number of HN users that are not histrionic, but they are very much fighting an uphill battle.
(Source) (Archive)

Here is an uncharacteristically reasonable post with a response by Byuu/Near from an earlier HN thread dated March 2020 featuring Kiwi Farms:
View attachment 2309531
(Source) (Archive)

I've also attached Byuu's post history going back to mid-2019, with the most recent activity within about 10 days of the most recent event. I couldn't archive more than the first page of activity due to the way the profile pages are rendered.

I have not read his extensive history. It seems to be mostly just shop-talk. It's possible that early posts may yield some information. He appears to have to just changed his username when moving from "Byuu" to "Near" and the account was created in 2012:
View attachment 2309600
(HN Profile Page)
Attached are full page caps for all of this content, which are too large to post inline.

The programmer forum Knockout is similarly crazy. I think its all of the autism. Programmer autism creates some sortof crazy that thinks that everything can and should be controlled.


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Made a funny, would have posted in Byuu's thread but its locked.
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People need to give up suicide and live like the Postal Dude when they lose their jobs.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if the cub-fursona was the cause of all this.
 
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