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Post by joshxyz »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

Jesus fucking christ i thought it's just some users table but 56.7 terabytes you mofos that's some s3 egress bill!

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Post by ardy42 »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

Also embarrassing: https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vqew/the-hacker-who-archiv... > donk_enby had originally intended to grab data only from the day of the Capitol takeover, but found that the poor construction and security of Parler allowed her to capture, essentially, the entire website. That ended up being 56.7 terabytes of data, which included every public post on Parler, 412 million files in all—including 150 m…

> The Hacker Who Archived Parler Explains How She Did It (and What Comes Next)

I'm really glad she did that. I'm fine with all this stuff getting taken down, but it really needs to be archived somewhere for historical purposes, to help understand this moment.

Given the kind of media and political impact Trump's tweets from @theRealDonaldTrump have been, I really hope they're archived at NARA along with the @POTUS tweets. They're legit historical primary source documents.

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Post by nathias »

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…

Linux doesn't help here. You can have your own servers, but then ISP can shut you down and Mastercard and Visa will ban you from the online economy at will ...

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Post by redisman »

threesmegiste wrote: post #242

Perfect game from tech companies. They put you on a stramge position. To be against censorship you have to defend trump. Yes you should defend him. Because censorship is more important than Trump. But tech companies know that you couldnt judge properly. Never again talk about censor. You all close your eyes when free speech killed.

Why even have a TOS if you won’t enforce it? If you sign a contract you can’t cry that you got banned for repeatedly breaking it and when asked not to, you did it again.

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Post by fomine3 »

peteretep wrote: post #155
hombre_fatal wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People are already conditioned to need a web browser to view adult content, and if you are an adult content platform, your competitors are also missing from app store as well. This doesn't work out the same for social media. Doubly so because a social media platform benefits from integrations like notifications which are missing from iOS Safari.

Perhaps. I’ve been using Twitter and FB exclusively via iOS Safari for a year or two and I’m not sure I’m missing anything important

You miss App icon on share sheet. Maybe Web Share Target API solves this situation but I don't know Apple want to implement it.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593

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Post by Groxx »

Earwig wrote: post #174
CameronNemo wrote: post #160

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Is ISO8601 without punctuation still ISO8601? Most log parsers I have seen would not pick up the Parker format. ex gr https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.dat... https://github.com/elastic/logstash/blob/v1.4.2/patterns/gro...

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 have variations.

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Post by eyelidlessness »

cozzyd wrote: post #257
stouset wrote: post #249

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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.

The same way it has since I’ve been alive. What’s your point?

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Post by pstuart »

Shared404 wrote: post #245
pstuart wrote: post #238

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That's just, like, his opinion man. Let's see what comes out of this data dump before getting too sanguine about loss of "free speech".

> "free speech". On this topic, I've seen reports on Twitter and Reddit of people who don't fit Parler's "prescribed worldview" being banned. Not so free after all.

How much free speech do you have on this site? Why don't you try agitating for violence here and see what happens.

After all, it's just speech right?

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Post by jacquesm »

f430 wrote: post #161
Exmoor wrote: post #157

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Indeed. The level of security failure was pretty incredible. They named media serially (So, pics/1.jpg, pics/2.jpg, etc.) and did not have any validation that you were allowed to access what you were grabbing so it was literally as easy as possible to grab everything. Oh, and did I mention that private messages were also fully accessible?

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

A career in looking at the guts of companies later I can assure that is very much possible.

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

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…

> 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.

Are you sure it's not just a heat map of only those videos?

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