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Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by im3w1l »

rconti wrote: post #54
rubyist5eva wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It seems they generally make the effort to explicitly call for nonviolence and the like. I'm sure these "left wing riot" groups you mention crossed the line before, too, and had comments and pages removed. Hell, notice that Parler got away with it, too until they didn't? There's always a line, and sometimes it gets crossed. Pretending like nothing bad ever happens to group X, and everything bad always happens to grou…

People on the left are constantly calling for and glorifying violence. Non-lethal violence. But still violence. I even saw it here on HN.

EDIT: As this is getting downvotes, "punch a nazi" is the most common one, and many many examples can be found on eg twitter.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by Talanes »

excannuck wrote: post #176
f430 wrote: post #159

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cmon now this is unecessary. do you have $200,000 CAD or not?

That doesn't make sense....

Possibly a joke about their profile, which says they are selling a car and to comment an offer on any of their comments.

If not, then I'm as lost as you are.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by onion2k »

WClayFerguson wrote: post #177
aabhay wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is increasingly, vanishingly hard to not use the big three cloud services. Mainly because any platform or tool you might use is _also_ hosted on these clouds.

You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need? I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scale servers themselves. Get on Linode. It's base on Linux instances. If you build on Linux you are "free" and not "owned"

... what else do you really need?

A proper database.

:)

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by f430 »

shripadk wrote: post #170
f430 wrote: post #144

I genuinely believe that this is a case of incompetence willful or not. Who knows, maybe someone at parler knew and never raised the issue because they were disgruntled and actively shot down security measures....kind of like what I did before Basically a startup I worked for 12 years ago were fucking me big time on compensation so I purposefully argued against encrypting the database knowing how shoddy their securit…

So because you were not compensated properly you decided to screw the users of your company who had nothing to do with you being compensated less. You act like you are some kind of martyr but you are the sole person responsible for the human rights violations of thousands and potentially millions of unsuspecting users who used that service. I hope you can sleep well tonight knowing how you deliberately violated priva…

Look, the people who signed up for the service were mostly men looking to cheat on their wives if it makes you feel better.

Screw them. Why get married when you are just going to sign up on dating site to look for sugar babies who can't be bothered to put in the work so they sleep with married rich older men.

I don't think you realize how corrupt and immoral people are. I took great joy reading through the depraved private messages. It's technically prostitution if you wanna put it that way.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by runawaybottle »

WClayFerguson wrote: post #177
aabhay wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is increasingly, vanishingly hard to not use the big three cloud services. Mainly because any platform or tool you might use is _also_ hosted on these clouds.

You can build on Java + SpringBoot + MySQL + Linux + Docker Compose, then what else do you really need? I mean there's tons of technology stacks to choose from, but people get lazy and take the easy way out rather than learning to scale servers themselves. Get on Linode. It's base on Linux instances. If you build on Linux you are "free" and not "owned"

Linode and Digital Ocean docs also are leagues ahead of AWS. They cover a lot of stuff. I didn’t even know what fail2ban was when one of my VPS’s got hacked. Went through all their docs, they cover a lot and really helped me understand how much I didn’t know while at the same time providing guides on getting up to speed.

AWS won’t tell you about those things because they sell you security, so you remain a dumbass about those things indefinitely.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by bitcoinmoney »

WClayFerguson wrote: post #168

I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were…

Why can’t they just backup regularly and redeploy somewhere? Isn’t it as easy as backing up a DB and restoring?

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by smm2000 »

tw04 wrote: post #105
zarkov99 wrote: post #45

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Perhaps Parler did not realize that being aligned with conservatism was grounds for deplatforming. I am sure they will learn as will the whole world.

Fortunately being aligned with conservatism isn't grounds for deplatforming, as can be seen by the literal millions of conservatives on twitter who haven't been deplatformed. It's easy: you have a discussion about your political beliefs without telling the other person you're going to murder them for disagreeing with you.

“Fortunately criticizing Putin isn't grounds for being assassinated, as can be seen by the literal millions of people in Russia who haven't been murdered yet. It's easy: be nobody and have a discussion about your political beliefs in the kitchen with only close relatives.”

All well known recent deplatforming cases were done on a flimsy grounds for off-platform activities. They are very hard to defend.

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Post by wyck »

papandada wrote: post #64
dghughes wrote: post #41

Ironic the article is in Vice considering one of its founders (Gavin McInnes) also founded the Proud Boys.

I spent some time trying to figure out Gavin McInnes the other day. I had a very hard time separating conviction and sarcasm.

Well he was in a band called Anal Chinook.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by throwanem »

slg wrote: post #133
f430 wrote: post #117

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> GPS coordinates—unlike most social media sites, Parler does not strip metadata from media its users upload, which, crucially, could be useful for law enforcement OH SHI- This is a colossal mess up, on epic proportions.

Due to the people involved, Parler is almost certainly not a honeypot setup by the FBI, CIA, or some other government organization. However some of the details that have leaked out over the last week made me wonder how little of the site would have changed if that was the intended purpose.

It would probably have been more secure.

Re: Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'

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Post by cptskippy »

aabhay wrote: post #173
WClayFerguson wrote: post #168

I've been telling developers for years if you build your infrastructure on top of tons of 3rd party services like Google Cloud or AWS then you basically don't own it, and can be shut down any day, against your will. Web companies should build on "Linux" only, as their base platform, so they own everything above that. I was a fan of Parler but building on AWS was a huge mistake, and they should have realized they were…

It is increasingly, vanishingly hard to not use the big three cloud services. Mainly because any platform or tool you might use is _also_ hosted on these clouds.

Most everything I develop is in .NET and will run comfortably in Nginx, IIS, or an Azure App Service Resource.

It's not that hard.

In my experience most developers just inherit the infrastructure and even the base project from someone else. They've never stood up a server or configure anything from scratch so they have no idea what they're doing.

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