Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing' • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

KMag wrote: post #212

slg wrote: post #133

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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.

Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Hah, this is great. If you don't get the references, it's Hanlon's Razor ("Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity") plus Arthur C. Clarke's "3rd law" ("Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")

Apparently it's called Grey's Law: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Grey%27s%20L...

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

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Post by ardy42 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:53 AM UTC

f430 wrote: post #198

lovich wrote: post #195

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Is this a bit? You started off with admitting to crime and then start bringing up how you’re dating women young enough to make everyone upset with you, completely unrelated to the original post or your own criminal admission

Look man different countries have different age of consent. I'm not about to incriminate myself here. For you people who think the RCMP is going to bust down my condo door you are mistaken. I didn't mention where I worked.

> For you people who think the RCMP is going to bust down my condo door you are mistaken. I didn't mention where I worked.

Is your profile about fake? 'cause if it's not I wouldn't be so cocky. It looks like it'd be pretty easy to track you down.

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Edit: it's been changed, so it's probably genuine.

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

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Post by WClayFerguson » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:55 AM UTC

margaretdouglas wrote: post #200

WClayFerguson wrote: post #178

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Parler used AWS. I suggested avoid AWS. What am I missing. I might be missing something.

AWS is a suite of services. One of those is EC2, which is just virtual servers hosted by Amazon/AWS. A virtual server is no different than a physical server from the perspective of the guest operating system, regardless of if it is Linux or not. Linux is just the software running on the server, it has nothing to do with ownership. The only way "running on AWS" is problematic is if you tied yourself to their non-gener…

We used AWS and EC2 at my last job so I've done about 4 years worth of what you're describing. Definitely if you use Amazon as your way of getting a Linux instance that's fine, because then you can just move to Linode or any other hosting service because Linux is the one thing they all support.

When I say don't use "AWS" I should've been more clear I'm talking about their proprietary stuff. Basically you should be able to run on a plain Linux as your base.

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

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Post by kodah » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:57 AM UTC

ardy42 wrote: post #246

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.

> You have likely confessed to a crime. What crime, exactly? I doubt what he did is any kind of crime. Honestly, some PMs would probably do the exact same thing (e.g. focusing on the "customer" by de-prioritizing "tech debt" to work on "higher priority" work). Edit: not to say it wasn't unethical, but the bar for criminal conduct is not the same.

> 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 security was. I didn't allow ANYONE to secure the backend. 4 years later, their database gets leaked and they get "acquired" for an "undisclosed amount" which usually means they sold themselves at a huge discount pending lawsuits.

I don't know, the act of confessing that it was done in bad faith?

I have kept myself up late at night and in the early hours of the morning hoping that I made the right decisions in trade offs to protect my users, their data, and the company I worked for. I've worked for some companies that treated me pretty shitty. I've experienced racism, gas lighting, overworking, and being underpaid in my career. Never once did it occur to me to turn that hurt and frustration on the company or my users.

This is possibly one of the strongest possible cases I have seen to professionalize software engineering. Holy smokes.

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

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Post by thedailymail » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 5:58 AM UTC

f430 wrote: post #241

true_religion wrote: post #194

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I have to say... that having this conversation flip to you talking about your love for the youngest legally permissible women is very disconcerting.

what the hell is wrong with dating an 18 yo? I can't believe this puritanical bullshit in North America. In Japan you can legally date Jyoshi Kousei schoolgirls and nobody gives a damn. I'm not saying I'm into that, I SPECIFICALLY mentioned they were 18 and now everybody thinks I'm Jeffrey Epstein for christs sake I'm sick of puritans in this country judging people like me because they are jealous. They know their wi…

Like lots of others, you lost me at the dating teenagers twist. As a 25-year resident of Japan, I can assure you that it is not true "nobody gives a damn" about older men dating high school girls. Like in other countries it is widely viewed as grotesque and despicable.

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Post by zaq1 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:01 AM UTC

f430 wrote: post #241

true_religion wrote: post #194

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I have to say... that having this conversation flip to you talking about your love for the youngest legally permissible women is very disconcerting.

what the hell is wrong with dating an 18 yo? I can't believe this puritanical bullshit in North America. In Japan you can legally date Jyoshi Kousei schoolgirls and nobody gives a damn. I'm not saying I'm into that, I SPECIFICALLY mentioned they were 18 and now everybody thinks I'm Jeffrey Epstein for christs sake I'm sick of puritans in this country judging people like me because they are jealous. They know their wi…

If you think 30, which is not even middle-aged, is unattractive... I think your general interest is skewed towards the very young. I just don't know why you'd incriminate yourself like this.

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Post by cozzyd » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:03 AM UTC

stouset wrote: post #249

neuronexmachina wrote: post #134

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Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kvx88n/oc_...

What I find astonishing is that—at least according to that heat map—it appears that bordering on 100% of the people using Parler in DC that day we’re part of the riot / coup / insurrection. This isn’t an app that’s in widespread general use but just so happens to also have a few bad apples using it too. It’s instead almost exclusively used by what would appear to be the most radical wing of the Trump party. Almost ev…

I mean, look how DC voted in the last election.

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Post by wang_li » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:06 AM UTC

stevesarmpit wrote: post #228

jakelazaroff wrote: post #51

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Or, more charitably: your stance on information and freedom simply isn’t absolutist.

Free Speech isn't a thing that applies to Internet companies, only the government and how they must deal with people who wish to speak in public forums. Internet providers and services aren't "public forums" given their infrastructure is not a public space, but a private space they control. Whether or not someone thinks these services are "censoring" things or not isn't a real argument, again for the reason it must b…

Free speech is a cultural value and a philosophy it, can apply to anyone and everyone. The first amendment of the US constitution protects the people from politicians and bureaucrats.

Just because it’s done by a private party doesn’t mean it’s not censorship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4t6zNZ-b0A

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Post by jcranmer » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:07 AM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #81

cstejerean wrote: post #60

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I think basically don’t use your platform to plan an insurrection and you should be fine. As soon as you start being used as the platform where violence is being organized all bets are off.

So... are you talking about Twitter and Facebook? Your comment is short sighted and shows a possibly too eager willingness to accept the media and big tech narrative at completely face value. What if you are wrong? At one point saying “We shouldn’t own slaves”, or “the Indian has rights to the land they live on”, or “women should be allowed to vote”, or “no taxation without representation” were all insurrectionist co…

> At one point saying “We shouldn’t own slaves”, or “the Indian has rights to the land they live on”, or “women should be allowed to vote”, or “no taxation without representation” were all insurrectionist comments.

Uh, I don't know what you think "insurrectionist" means, but those are definitely not what it means. Actually, one of those comments was actually the law of the land at the time, as adjudicated by the Supreme Court--it was merely a popular politician who said that the Supreme Court had no actual power to enforce its will against him and did it anyways.

In the interest of pedantry, it's worth pointing out that the anti-slavery comments weren't the ones made by the insurrectionists, and even in the states that seceded, the unwillingness of Northerners to uphold the Fugitive Slave Act was arguably the more pressing threat, since it is highly unlikely that the federal government would have been enable to effect mandatory abolition on unwilling states but removing any codes enforcing the return of runaway slaves would have been well within its remit. That said, there was one notable abolitionist who provides half the cases in US history of people tried for treason against an individual state.

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Post by gabereiser » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 6:07 AM UTC

stouset wrote: post #249

neuronexmachina wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone put together an animated heatmap of Parler photo locations along the Mall throughout the day of 1/6: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/kvx88n/oc_...

What I find astonishing is that—at least according to that heat map—it appears that bordering on 100% of the people using Parler in DC that day we’re part of the riot / coup / insurrection. This isn’t an app that’s in widespread general use but just so happens to also have a few bad apples using it too. It’s instead almost exclusively used by what would appear to be the most radical wing of the Trump party. Almost ev…

This was exactly my take away from the heat map. If that's all the GPS coords from video taken on Parler that day than it looks to be exclusively used by those supporting/participating/sharing the riot on the US Capital.