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

Post by riffraff » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 8:32 AM UTC

nullsense wrote: post #323

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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...

Does that make it a "quotemanteau"? Wait... Is that a thing? Are there more of these?

Post by rendall » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 8:36 AM UTC

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If only there were some principle or value that would somehow... allow us to express opinions even if others - even powerful people, or even the majority of people - disagreed with us. Some kind of inalienable right. Hmm. It is a mystery.

You can express opinions all you want, but you’re going to have to do a lot of work in order to justify compelling someone to do business with you after you say something they don’t like. Like, amazon isn’t actually the basic infrastructure of the internet. You can build web sites and apps without involving them. So why would a law force them to do business with you?

Post by JimDabell » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 8:38 AM UTC

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Yes... kind of. Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 , there is a "basic format" without separators and an "extended format" that includes them for readability. However, a T is still required to separate the date and time in the most recent version of the standard.

ISO 8601 is pretty absurd when you actually read it. `2021-W02` and `--01-14` are valid, as is `--1013` (quick! guess what that means! and beware that `-1013` is valid too!) Please, everyone, use a single format at all times in your systems. I don't really care what it is, though I'm fond of `2021-01-14T06:28:08Z` because it's unambiguous. But don't just say "use ISO 8601", it's far too vague and you'll inevitably ha…

Post by bonestamp2 » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 8:39 AM UTC

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They would display numbers less than 1000 as-is, and only start adding the "k" and "m" prefix after the 4-digit and 7-digit threshold was crossed.

But how could they maintain an accurate count? Maybe they were just persisting the user-friendly format alongside the actual count...

Post by that_guy_iain » Thu, Jan 14, 2021, 8:46 AM UTC

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Which will not provide you service unless you give them Russian phone number and scan of your Russian passport.

Parler was backed by very deep pockets with existing international connections. They could afford to purchase the necessary Russian friends to make this happen.