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Post by mrguyorama »

arminiusreturns wrote: post #287
tw04 wrote: post #105

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Fortunately being aligned with conservatism isn't grounds for deplatforming, as can be seen by the literal millions of conservatives on twitter who haven't been deplatformed. It's easy: you have a discussion about your political beliefs without telling the other person you're going to murder them for disagreeing with you.

Can we please move on from the assertion and justification of the very real censorship push on the grounds that "they all deserved it" by claiming that all the people deplatformed were "telling the other person you're going to murder them for disagreeing with you"? This is an intellectually dishonest take at best . I won't speculate on the other end of the spectrum. I for one am disgusted at how servile about censors…

The commenter claimed being conservative and no other attribute/thing was a sufficient condition to be deplatformed. That is an absurdly large claim and requires absurdly large evidence. You can go on twitter right now and find conservative opinions, including the opinions of those from Fox news, the most watched news channel in America.

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Post by slim »

gargron wrote: post #339
fomine3 wrote: post #265

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So Gab's strategy (fork Mastodon) looks solid for security but they hit performance issue because Mastodon isn't made for such scale.

Mastodon scales horizontally until PostgreSQL becomes the bottleneck: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/scaling/

they needed a platform that would not need to scale before the database server becomes a bottleneck

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Post by ceejayoz »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #300
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…

> 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?

DC voted 93-5% for Biden. Not gonna be many native Parler users there.

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Post by [deleted] »

sbierwagen wrote: post #374
petroseskinder wrote: post #70

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It is grounds for terminating hosting when AWS has repeatedly asked you to remove said content AND they've offered to help you migrate you off of AWS. See court filings - https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664... Or for specific sections, see https://twitter.com/questauthority/status/134916216569825280...

If Microsoft sends an email to Valve telling them to delete certain unlawful posts on Steam, or else they'll use Windows Defender to block the Steam executable, would you defend that? Why not? It's not like Valve owns the computers of their customers. They're in clear violation of the Windows terms of service. If you violate the ToS, then Microsoft has every right to remove you from their operating system and Valve i…

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Post by dijit »

secondcoming wrote: post #472
ClumsyPilot wrote: post #471

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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!

Many people have Others, like me, have home NAS's which have 10-20TiB, and they're usually close to full.

Fewer people, but a non-zero amount, hoard data, they have 20-100TiB or even more, full on homelabs.

If you're a person collecting datadumps or running rainbow tables, you probably have such a unit. It's not even that expensive really, you can get a 24TiB Pegasus Thunderbolt raid array for <1,000 USD

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Post by collinmanderson »

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…

Some people stayed just outside of the capital and didn't necessarily do anything wrong.

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Post by SergeAx »

Unpopular opinion: it is not bad, it is just normal average modern startup attitude. Let's put everything into cloud, use Spanner or Aurora for data, Firebase for user mgmt, throw together bunch of lambdas and voila, we are in business.

And I am not being judgemental, because this approach is working 95 times of 100, and most of startups are dying anyway before they hit the wall of vendor lock.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

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?

I'm not a huge data fiend but I've got maybe ~3-4 2TB drives in my house: a Synology NAS + a spare drive.

Including old desktops and a couple of random external HDDs, I could probably hit 8-10TB easily.

And it's not like it's hard to get more. If I hit a montherlode and I need keep it, it's a 20 minute drive to Target / Best Buy / Walmart for a drive or three. Not as cheap as bulk orders off of Newegg but cost-effective enough to store these dumps.

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Post by BrandonMarc »

userbinator wrote: post #78
formalsystems wrote: post #37

I got the sense while crawling data from their API that the engineering quality is poor at Parler. Dates were represented as strings in "YYYYMMDD" format (so today would be "20210113053923") instead of UNIX timestamps, certain fields were duplicated for no reason (e.g. every object would have an identical "id" and "_id" key), counts of impressions/comments/etc would be the display strings rather than raw numbers (so…

Dates were represented as strings in "YYYYMMDD" format (so today would be "20210113053923") instead of UNIX timestamps Such a representation naturally avoids the Y2K38 problem, and could go beyond Y10K. It's traditional in Windows and DOS (neither of which have the Y2K38 problem) to store timestamps as a structure of fields. The other things you noted I agree with, however.

This.

Plus, it's unambiguously human readable, for users, bystanders, platform developers, everyone. There's a useful usability principle in there.

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Post by blaser-waffle »

feralimal wrote: post #403
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_...

That graphic is interesting to me, as it illustrates what the view is like at the 3-letter-agencies control centers, who have been slurping up our data for years.

Debatable; this is low hanging fruit.

Turn off or strip EXIF data -- most sites do anyway -- and this wouldn't happen.

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