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Re:Berkshirehathaway.com on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:01PM (#33685241)
This plus never doing a stock split despite BRK.A trading at $468,000 per share are little details that show what an extraordinary and unique company it is. I don't think there's anyone in finance who cares about appearances less than Warren Buffet. The fact that he chooses to stay in Omaha, Nebraska instead of a penthouse in Manhattan's Financial District also seems to tie in to his modus operandi.
Re:Berkshirehathaway.com on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:54PM (#33685174)
I'd be curious to know how many people access the Berkshire Hathaway website from a phone. If they do get any mobile traffic, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it's from more BlackBerries than iPhones.
Re:Berkshirehathaway.com on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:49PM (#33685134)
The email goes to the same person you must ask before describing an NFL broadcast.
Re:Berkshirehathaway.com on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:46PM (#33685095)
This web design reminds me a lot of when Apple "bravely" removed the 3.5mm AUX jack from the iPhone. Everyone scorned and mocked their simplified design, then copied it a year later. However, I don't know if there's anything equivalent to forcing companies to make better Bluetooth headsets in this case - maybe making people appreciate big fonts more?
Re:Berkshirehathaway.com on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:11PM (#33684133)
Normally I loathe Geico ads with every fiber of my being, but that little guy at the bottom of the page is so cute!
Re:Kiwifarms Dropped by Their ISP on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:31AM (#33312949)
One could argue that there's a huge difference between the two: dangerousness. Making at-home body-altering substances to be consumed is obviously physically dangerous. It's much harder to argue that what KF does is physically dangerous.
Re:Kiwifarms Dropped by Their ISP on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:17AM (#33312883)
This isn't quite accurate. While they do disproportionately make threads about people who are trans, they have plenty of threads about cis people as well. It's not like they target random transgender people. If anything, the "crime" would be being Internet-famous.
Re:Kiwifarms Dropped by Their ISP on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:09AM (#33312851)
For one, KF constantly faces DDoS attacks.
Re:Kiwifarms Dropped by Their ISP on Monday October 24, 2022 @12:06AM (#33312836)
This is correct. The vast majority of KiwiFarm's content (aside from vulgar replies) is the obsessive compilation of public posts, e.g. screenshots of deleted tweets. It's protected because the right to be forgotten isn't recognized in American law.
Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:48PM (#32755745)
The "suicide count" in question was in one user's mini-bio (the bit below someone's profile pic where they can put custom text - not sure what that's called). Keffals' claim that it's a site "feature" is deceitful and that multiple users had it is an outright falsehood.
Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:34PM (#32755526)
> It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF.

How? The site is down and now the archives are too. This strikes me as a bizarre lie.

Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:22PM (#32755332)
I find myself growing more weary and concerned about Wikipedia's bureaucracy and politics. I'm not sure if I'm merely losing my naivete or the Wikimedia Foundation's integrity is in fact decaying.
Re:Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @03:15PM (#32755197)
That's like saying pushing an object implies that it has a right to stand still. Censorship is simply when something is suppressed or prohibited. Whether or not you think the censorship is merited is a matter of opinion, not inherit to the word's definition.
Re:Peter Eckersley has died on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:01PM (#32709361)
Beautiful eulogy. I'm sorry for your loss.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:37PM (#32708263)
Anecdotally, I've noticed an uptick in biased Wikipedia editing platforming questionable claims as facts. It's a bit concerning.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms on Saturday September 03, 2022 @08:01PM (#32707913)
This evoked Godwin's law real quick. For a purportedly "Nazi" site, KiwiFarms sure does lack swastikas.

Moral repugnance is not synonymous with Nazism.

Re:Blocking Kiwifarms on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:44PM (#32707735)
Please don't tell him to stop posting. Some of us appreciate the insight direct from Cloudfare's founder and CEO.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:39PM (#32707676)
Have KF users ever taken credit for SWATing? It's my impression that they were - or at least Moon - always careful about not crossing the legal line.
Re:Blocking Kiwifarms on Saturday September 03, 2022 @07:32PM (#32707605)
Am I missing something? The linked source contradicts that comment. The source only links one post by one user - a horrible attempt at a joke by my reading - and it was removed.

Is there more?

Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:50AM (#32663840)
Cloudfare's stance is pretty clearly amoral.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:40AM (#32663661)
Is this in fact the case? Of course it is being claimed, but I always perceived that KF's nastiness was relatively self-contained, e.g. when someone encourages suicide, it's performative to other Farmers, rather than reaching out to a potential victim or their loved ones. All bark, no bite, and caged.
Re:Cloudflare's abuse policies and approach on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @11:35AM (#32663549)
This is a great point. Regardless of how one may feel about hate speech laws, it is disturbing that a large percentage of citizens believe that Washington D.C. is completely impotent. People have given up on the idea of their government helping, to the point where it's not even brought up as a possibility.
Official announcement on @FTC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FTC/status/1557733026947543042

FTC Chair Lina Khan [further breaks it down](https://twitter.com/linakhanFTC/status/1557738539202531334):

>1. Firms track & collect data on Americans at a stunning scale—on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy.

>@FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security practices.

Senator Markey (MA) has also [responded positively to it](https://twitter.com/SenMarkey/status/1557738870397353984):

>We have reached a crisis point for children and teens’ well-being online. I'm glad to see @linakhanFTC and @FTC working to give users the privacy protection they deserve. Congress must also pass my legislation to further protect young people online. We must act now.

Is your suspension with or without pay?
Re:Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold on Friday May 13, 2022 @11:52AM (#31369172)
Is this legal? It seems like such a devious exploit.

1. Announce buyout (priced at a premium, of course) is "on hold"

2. Stock drops due to bad news

3. Re-negotiate for lower buyout after manipulating the stock to a lower price

Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:25PM (#30973401)
This is ultimately about telling a diverse group of people that the essence of their human experience is wrong, that their sense of identity and thought patterns are invalid, that they must fundamentally change to conform to the linguistic perception of reality of English speakers - the vast majority of whom neither understand nor respect other languages. See the hypocrisy here?

"Latino" is a gender-neutral word. Gendered languages do not involve all of what "gender" per se means in the English sense. English speakers not understanding or accepting these basic facts is not reflective of the Spanish language; it is reflective of the lack of understanding and acceptance of some English speakers.

And misunderstandings are fine, as is the case with Joe Biden and the Democrats who said something which offends 40% of Latino Americans. But preaching from the pulpit of ignorance is not.

Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:50PM (#30972429)
I pray that someday everybody can see how horribly arrogant and culturally imperialist it is for English-speakers to condemn other languages as "problematic" and demand they fundamentally change based on their limited outsider understanding. It's one of those few things which screams woke white supremacy.
Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:12PM (#30971038)
The fad in question doesn't concern how closely people identify with their gender in real, normal life. It concerns their aptitude to announce their gender prior to any online interaction whatsoever.
Re:Twitter accounts dropping “.eth” from usernames on Saturday April 09, 2022 @03:08PM (#30970999)
The USA is not the epicenter of the Spanish language. The world does not revolve around the USA.

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