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

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

secondcoming wrote: post #426
philshem wrote: post #405

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They were downloading at 50 Gbps for a while https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348497204940595201 https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348440720504401921 Also, auth provider (twilio?) removed Parler as a client so for a short while it was possible to create accounts without a phone number (2FA). https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348298836930867204 edit: okta, free trial, thanks: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

She is probably liable for that data egress bill. Also, how does some randomer have ten of terabytes of disk lying around?

Have you ever been to r/Datahoarder or r/Homelab?

10TB fits on one desktop drive, it's completely pedestrian

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

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Post by secondcoming »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #471
secondcoming wrote: post #426

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She is probably liable for that data egress bill. Also, how does some randomer have ten of terabytes of disk lying around?

Have you ever been to r/Datahoarder or r/Homelab? 10TB fits on one desktop drive, it's completely pedestrian

I have not. I have one 4TB HD in my machine and I've never come close to filling it!

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

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

Grustaf wrote: post #401

I suppose one advantage Pirate Bay had was that they set out doing something illegal, whereas Parler probably didn't even consider the possibility that they would have to fight to stay online. Apple has tightened the rules around forums lately, I don't think they required moderation when Parler started. The other thing is of course that Pirate Bay was started by hard core computer nerds, not business people.

TPB also has the advantage of age. Their last decade has been quite stable but back in the day they would regularly go down and people would make all sorts of witty comments questioning the competence of the operators. It took them a lot of work to get where they are and they also had/have a different scaling curve than a social network.

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

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Post by cycomanic »

slg wrote: post #139
mc32 wrote: post #124

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No, we have legal and moral obligations when there are immediate dangers and harm. Simple expressions are different. Look, I wish the world were pure and good. That no one had ill intent. But we know that we cannot have good things because a very small fraction of a percentage are bad people. I don’t like having very bad people destroying freedom for everyone else. I believe people have a right to express unpopular e…

>No, we have legal and moral obligations when there are immediate dangers and harm. Piratebay exists largely to circumvent the law. They therefore can't really use the law as a guideline for what to censor. They have to make active choices of what illegal content is allowed and what isn't.

IIRC when pirate bay was founded what they did was not against the law in Sweden. It was only after immense pressure from the US that it became illegal.

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Post by [deleted] »

bawolff wrote: post #280
MivLives wrote: post #217

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I'm curious where someone just gets 56.7 tb of storage that quickly.

Im more curious how someone pulls down 56 terabytes in a very short period of time without sysadmins at parler noticing. I'm surprised they didn't unintentionally DoS them.

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Post by swebs »

onion2k wrote: post #183
WClayFerguson wrote: post #177

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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. :)

Is that supposed to be a dig against MySQL, or did you just miss that in the list?

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

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Post by LatteLazy »

There is a part of me that thinks this was always Parlers aim (or at least an acceptable outcome). The whole point of parler was to cry about censorship while engaging in censorship. Now it's been shut down, all the more reason to cry...

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Post by meibo »

minot wrote: post #429
aljarry wrote: post #364

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90$ per TB

Is there still no easy straightforward way in $current_year to put an absolute spend cap of say USD 0, USD 5, or USD 10 per month on Amazon.com web services or Google Cloud Platform? I’d think I’d like to prepay a fixed dollar amount like USD 200 IF I anticipate some major event but really this is problematic for students. I just want to use the free tier. Why is this so hard?

The common excuse is "billing is heavily distributed and every product does it differently, so it's impossible to implement limits", but yeah, you're probably not the target audience.

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

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Post by mschuster91 »

Jochim wrote: post #444
mschuster91 wrote: post #427

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> The slightly stronger argument seems to be that the people making these death threats on Parler should not have been banned from Twitter/FB in the first place. That's not a strong argument at all. Spouting death threats gets you arrested if you do it in public (and someone records it or calls the cops), so it should also lead to a time-limited or permanent ban from social networks. Social networks are not a free-fo…

> That's not a strong argument at all. I don't think it's a strong argument either, I just think it's slightly stronger than the one people are trying to use for why AWS should be forced to host Parler. > Spouting death threats gets you arrested if you do it in public (and someone records it or calls the cops), so it should also lead to a time-limited or permanent ban from social networks. The argument from people co…

> Some people are arguing that the should be, that they should be treated as the equivalent of a modern town square

A modern town square isn't a free-for-all zone either. Try to go and shout "fuck " or raise the arm to the Nazi salute in an area where people of color live and you'll be lucky to escape with a minor beating.

Town squares are a form of societal self-preservation too - unruly elements get dealt with, either by the people themselves or by the police.

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