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

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Post by newacct583 »

zarkov99 wrote: post #76
ggggtez wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why the downvotes. This essentially is the same as my take. This is the inevitable result of pushing your brand as "no content moderation" but not actually having any skills or plans on what to do when it eventually caught up with them. Anyone familiar with 4chan knows that some of the earliest content that was banned on the platform include childporn and organizing raids/doxxing. If you read the terms of se…

This is factually false. There was moderation, there were terms of service and they banned appeals to violence from their site. The glee with which so many in tech are celebrating was essentially an attempt at corporate murder, on ideological grounds, is revolting.

> and they banned appeals to violence from their site

Lin Wood, the president's election lawyer[1] LITERALLY called for VP Pence to be executed the week before the riot. This was shared everywhere on the internet, was shared right there on Parler like tens of thousands of times, and AFAIK was still up and unmoderated when the site was shut down.

Parler's moderation was a community-run thing. Effectively, popular users could say anything they liked.

There was no meaningful moderation at all.

[1] Or whatever. The relationships were totally muddled, but nonetheless this guy was a big thought leader among the Kraken set.

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

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Post by throwawaycuriou »

f430 wrote: post #184
shripadk wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

You may be getting thrills out of this disclosure but like sibling comments I recommend you delete these submissions. It is not painting you in a good light.

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

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Post by dcgoss »

f430 wrote: post #184
shripadk wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

Let me take a guess: you worked at Ashley Madison? Data breach, Canada, cheating, etc. Checks out

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

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Post by kodah »

f430 wrote: post #193
kodah wrote: post #172

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You have likely confessed to a crime. If not a crime, you have committed a serious software-related ethical violation and should not work in software again.

What is the bigger crime? Telling people to work 80 hours a week without overtime? Threatening female coworkers with bad reviews if they dont go on a date? Calling me racial slurs and stealing my lunch? I can go on and on my man you weren't there I don't need to work in software, I have others work in it for me.

Those things are repugnant and some of them grossly illegal.

This is exactly why we have laws and don't allow people to enact vigilante justice. It didn't take long to figure out that hurt and misguided people act and speak out of vengeance and hurt. Nobody heals, nobody learns.

Even more, and what you ironically put on display here, is that you may have dented their pocket book but who you ultimately hurt was the users and your colleagues. Your woefully misguided sense of justice has ensured that the only outcome for everyone is hurt.

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Post by jcriddle4 »

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 isn't just getting kicked off the platform that you should worry about. You have zero control of long term pricing. Developers sometimes even develop without doing any math on what the services they are using cost in year one. Ask people how often they have already had to go back and rework code and shutdown servers because the bills coming in were out of control. The myth that you can just migrate if costs go crazy is completely nuts.

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Post by vlovich123 »

missedthecue wrote: post #191
f430 wrote: post #161

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I am convinced this was an inside job. There is simply no way someone can be this incompetent without willful intent.

Ever worked for a startup? This is what "move fast, break things" does.

I have but only at competent ones. Nothing this flagrantly bad.

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Post by Talanes »

dcgoss wrote: post #197
Talanes wrote: post #182

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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.

Look at the username

I caught that, I assumed the throwing out of a CAD amount is where we all got confused.

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Post by ashtonkem »

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #186
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?

If you restrict yourself to only the set of AWS functionality that is common to all hosting providers, you can do that.

But not only is that very hard to do, it basically negates the premise of AWS in general. There are also lots of areas that you can’t do this, such as IAM and network rules, so you have to build an abstraction on top of it that’ll work with open source tools on a separate host.

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Post by saurik »

sangnoir wrote: post #79
ggggtez wrote: post #48

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If I recall, that wasn't the DB of Parler, but of their wordpress blog. It's still sloppy, but it's not on the same level.

IIRC, one of the poor design choices was making their resource URLs (videos, pictures, etc) sequential - this reduces the effort of crawling everything down to a 'for' loop; no need to get the actual "db" for references. As a bonus, those media resources were not stripped of metadata (EXIF data in images was present)

... like this website? ;P I honestly don't see anything wrong with that design: permissions should be honored--and Parler did something really wrong here that caused people to be able to gain admin status from them--but, past that, if someone wants to download the whole site why not let them?

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Post by john_mack »

f430 wrote: post #184
shripadk wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 p…

sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach
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