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Re:Area 51 FBI Raid (2023) on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:59PM (#37057085)

I don't think anyone cares about what candaians who think they are Americans believe simply because they live nearby.

As subjects of the King, canadians have no understanding of liberty, nor the founding principles of the American nation. They fled as soon as people suggested defiance. Subjugation is in the veins of canadians.

Re:The Lose-Lose-Lose-Lose Bill C-18 Outcome: Meta Blocking News Links... on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:54PM (#37057046)

Have you tried crying about the fact that you are getting traffic to your website that nobody would see otherwise?

I hope daddy government treats you well.

Count on Big Brother to save you, and they will beat you down when it's time as well.

Re:EFF denounces Google's WEI proposal on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @07:48PM (#37056992)

You accused me of engaging in conspiracy theories for not believing in your lies about a "capitol insurrection" even though nobody has been charged with insurrection (and you won't quote a court to that effect because you can't).

You helped toxify and destroy the curious and creative nature of this site.

Congrats.

Re:Twitter bug causes self-DDoS, related to Musk’s emergency blocks, r... on Sunday July 02, 2023 @10:09AM (#36561629)

As you can see from Mussolini's own writing on the Doctrine of Fascism, they hate individualism, and love the State.

>7. Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State;

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/duce.html

Prior to Twitter's acquisition by Musk, they worked quite closely with the State and even hired the former top FBI lawyer as their chief legal counsel.

Re:Twitter bug causes self-DDoS, related to Musk’s emergency blocks, r... on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:53AM (#36561031)

It's a big holiday weekend in America, and having an outage seems like a minimal inconvenience, especially for those of us without an account.

There are entire communities of people who relied on the ability to simply read Twitter without an account, took the time to write code of their own, and now are reacting with much more maturity than HN seems to be. The petty personal attacks are simply astonishing.

"RIP Nitter" https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919

Re:Shifting views about psychedelic drugs require a new category for them on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:28AM (#36559812)

Someone claiming to have a grasp on reality while also saying the Biden laptop is fake is living in denial:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-data-analys...

I have no idea what happened to this website, but discussing emacs vs. vi is no longer the most controversial topic.

Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:34PM (#36556888)

Thanks for weighing in with some actual first-hand knowledge. It is appreciated.

The latest on cloud hosting is from a week ago, and I'm guessing you don't have any more recent info than this:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

Re:“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself” on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:30PM (#36556868)

HN doesn't seem to care about facts anymore, just "SpaceMan Bad!"

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:12PM (#36556741)

Your comment sounds like a conspiracy (let's all lob insults! No substantiation required).

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:09PM (#36556720)

His claim is that there are a few hundred scrapers causing issues, which makes sense given the recent changes to the paid API.

An assumptions of good faith was once a well-held principle on this website, and it's too bad legacy media has led so many astray.

Hatred for Musk has truly captured many otherwise very logical minds.

Re:Twitter Is DDOSing Itself on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:04PM (#36556673)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

That's from a week ago.

Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:49PM (#36556566)

I think you might benefit from reading HN comments about Twitter from ~2010. You will find many you agree with, yet Musk had zero to do with the service.

Re:“This is absolutely related to Twitter not paying their Google Clou... on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:43PM (#36556519)

Twitter could've simply announced they were going into maintenance mode for the weekend, and most people would've taken the hint about reduced availability.

Many of us privacy freaks were content accessing via Nitter, and had no use for directly connecting our personal machines to the site, nor registering. I am curious if we were considered bots.

Time will tell, but I doubt anyone has the actual explanation for what is going on exactly.

Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:37PM (#36556070)

That's why none of the explanations given can possibly be thorough, and I'm finding very few plausible explanations on HN either.

Most seem to be happy to blame whoever they view as their opposing team, which rarely leads to wisdom.

Re:Welcome to Hell, Elon on Friday October 28, 2022 @10:14PM (#33380317)

This is quite a ridiculous blog post. Hyperbole is way too common these days, and this is the type of submission that drove away many of the smartest HN users.

I will always remember when I first learned about bitcoin here in 2010 when the white paper was linked.

Now we have shrieking missives warning about mean people writing stuff on the internet.

Re:People are pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying box... on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:24PM (#33379682)

People say Twitter is not real life, then you proffer 4chan as real life.

Touch grass, my friend.

I went from pharma research (my degree) to tech to the restaurant world. We use lots of hand gestures because the environment is loud. The hispanic guys I work with give me the bird all the time (kitchen crew), and nobody takes offense.

You want to believe, and that is clear.

Re:CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fire... on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:08PM (#33379598)

Chief Twit*

Re:CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fire... on Friday October 28, 2022 @08:07PM (#33379596)

Without digging, I'm guessing you thought Musk was just doing a 'pump and dump' when the news broke in April, and that he would never acquire the company.

This assumption of bad faith is just terrible for HN, and the fact that you can't substantiate your argument doesn't breed much confidence in your assertions.

Musk's reputation is on the line without a doubt, and we can all point and say, "ha ha" if he fails. Otherwise...

Re:CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fire... on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:48PM (#33379465)

Twitter acquired and shutdown Vine, Periscope, and Posterous (what could've been substack) among many others. They seemed rather complacent and uninterested in innovation, or even profits. I have no sane explanations for the management of the business side of their operation.

Re:CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fire... on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:36PM (#33379371)

Your entire first comment was an assumption of bad faith on the part of Musk. Given that Twitter is now a private entity, there's no motivation to act fraudulently. I think Musk's track record merits at least a few quarters of actions before everyone jumps to conclusions?

Re:The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:18PM (#33379220)

I've got no problem with your characterization of Carlson, but do you honestly believe Blitzer is an objective arbiter of truth?

I don't, and I think this myth among so many in "news" media has done more to misinform people than any of the pundits who are honest about their biases. See also, Dan Rather and Brian Williams.

Re:Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:57AM (#33373131)

Indeed, the public did/does want war...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Re:Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk on Friday October 28, 2022 @11:52AM (#33373032)

TSLA is currently trading at less than half of its all time high. He could've made the same comment to a reporter from the NYTimes or Wall St. Journal with the same effect.

Re:Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @10:36AM (#29552675)

The question, as always, is who watches the watchmen? We saw what happened with broadcast and telecom regulation for phone and radio/tv in the USA. ABC, CBS, and NBC held a virtual monopoly until cable news 60 years later. AT&T/Ma Bell did likewise. It was horrible and arguably retarded innovation and diversity of viewpoints for many years.

Re:“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete” on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:06PM (#29546441)

I use a desptop RSS reader to this day to keep of numerous podcasts. I wonder if people realize that podcast feeds are RSS. Even Spotify, and some other proprietary networks. Google still maintains Feedburner too, if a bit lazily.

Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @08:04PM (#28846636)

One only need look at Sweden and their results. They took minimal action, allowed the youngest to remain in school w/o masks, and only canceled large events. We are now starting to see the all-cause mortality stats and they are proving Sweden's approach minimized the most harm.

Re:Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:33PM (#28843311)

Given that one of Fauci's emails shows the same opinion on mask inefficacy, I believe the lie came in the 180 about face claiming they do work (and there wasn't any cost to imposing them).

Re:Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives? on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:51PM (#28830957)

It works for me (esp. with ublock origin), but I also use Safari, Brave, and Firefox depending on the situation.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Re:The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:32AM (#28810734)

Water rights have long been an issue in the mountain west, and are highly coveted. They go back to the settling of areas, and directly influence property values. Even well-depth is regulated for newer properties so as to prevent them from usurping water in use by existing residents.

Re:Delta does not appear to make children sicker on Saturday October 09, 2021 @11:02AM (#28810454)

Here are the referenced studies this article is based on:

"Anti-SARS-CoV-2 receptor binding domain antibody evolution after mRNA vaccination"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04060-7

"Illness characteristics of COVID-19 in children infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.06.21264467v...

>"Few children presented to hospital, and long illness duration was uncommon, with either variant. Interpretation COVID-19 in UK school-aged children due to SARSCoV2 Delta strain B.1.617.2 resembles illness due to the Alpha variant B.1.1.7., with short duration and similar symptom burden."