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Maybe I'm missing some context, but what about that Tweet was disgusting versus just trashy or in poor taste? Compared to some of the crap on Twitter it's pretty tame.
The word disgusting literally means to be in extremely poor taste (e.g. "the rotton food i ate was disgusting")
If I showed someone a crime scene photo they might be "disgusted" but they won't say it's "bad taste".
If you just want to know how the breach[1] happened: it was SQL injection, where string interpolation was used to construct a query, rather than use parametrized queries. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/rookie-coding-mistak...
I thought bcrypt had built in salts, how was he able to reverse those hashes for simple passwords? Any better algorithm to use or recommendation on salting?
https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#SearchingPwnedPasswordsByR...
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What part do you find disgusting?
This part, linked here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26339446
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As both an former art student and Austrian living in Germany I don't think it is forbidden to think about how Hitler became Hitler. Because for some time of his life Hitler was just some angry guy until he turned to a fully fledged genozidal fascist dictator. Hitlers antisemitism was partly created by his rejection in the viennese academy and his hurt ego made him want to pay them back for the rest of his life. Why s…
There are many, many, more people who blamed scapegoats or were angry than became Hitler or Hitler-like figures. Likening Torba to Hitler because both of them are angry is an extreme and unproductive association. I think it's enough to say "You should treat people with respect" or "You shouldn't say that Mr. Torba", or even "Andrew Torba is a racist/transphobe/etc" without having to liken him to Hitler. Hitler didn't…
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I edited my comment. The full quotes are much worse. Here's the details: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...
Thanks, and wow... he sounds like a perpetual drain on the energy and sanity of all of the people around him.
If he was that obtuse and verbose about picking website colours he would have been booted the same way but of course a-holes pick the topics they know will cause the most controversy.
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I’m not a gab user, a Republican, or even an American for that matter. But it strikes me that what the situation seems to call for is more compassion and constructive discourse, but you seemingly wanted to harass people online under the guise of free speech. I think I understand why that would lead to being banned just about anywhere. It doesn’t serve anyone in any useful way. I don’t believe they should allow advoca…
Free speech and compassion for the hate mongers, “you’re just like them” for the people who don’t accept their hate or expose their lies. Got it.
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Perhaps ironically his comments strike me as those of someone mentally ill. They make me feel sorry for him.
It's a severe disservice to non-bigoted, non-toxic people who struggle with a myriad of mental health issues to reduce a description of that specific person to "he must be mentally ill". Though undoubtedly it's entirely possible to be a cancerous individual and also have mental health issues simultaneously.
He’s a professional, a CEO in the spotlight, and his response has been to act with impotent rage on the internet. There is something wrong with the picture. He’s acting way, way outside the bounds of his professional role and failing to function as a decent person as well. This often indicates some degree of mental illness.
I don’t mean to “reduce” a person to mental illness at all. I think it has broad and important implications rather than the inverse. I also don’t agree at all that one person’s illness can be a disservice to another.
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One of the wisest things I ever heard from a mental health professional: "There's a normal range of asshole, beyond that, it's mental illness" There is an entire range of diagnosable mental illnesses, below that there are entire clusters of personality disorders that don't quite raise to the diagnosis of the others. When it comes to personality disorders, especially, the current consensus of the psychiatric community…
Also worth pointing out that the diagnoses are just things we made up.
It doesn’t devalue diagnoses. These categories and labels are to some degree arbitrary, and the underlying conditions are often very elastic and amorphous.
The categories and labels are very helpful in some ways, but it’s unhelpful to rely on them exclusively to inform yourself if someone is having mental issues or not.
I’m not sure if this is what you were touching on or not.
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I’m not a gab user, a Republican, or even an American for that matter. But it strikes me that what the situation seems to call for is more compassion and constructive discourse, but you seemingly wanted to harass people online under the guise of free speech. I think I understand why that would lead to being banned just about anywhere. It doesn’t serve anyone in any useful way. I don’t believe they should allow advoca…
> i don’t see how it’s much different from what you’re criticizing. it's different because it's an intentional jab at the hyprocracy - free speech, yet bans those who don't agree with the site's concensus.