eejit_compiler

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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
By my calculations, this is somewhere between 11,680 and 18,560 vCPUs and 83,840 to 122,880 GB of RAM they're asking for. Seems rather excessive for a mid-tier social networking website.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
The AWS name wasn't associated with Parler and the Capitol insurrection, but it likely would have been. This is all about getting ahead of the story and limiting any potential brand damage. It's similar to when Cloudflare booted 8
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
> This is the only actual violence that happened and it was an overreaction by the police. Not true. The mob physically attacked the Capitol police, repeatedly, with a variety of weapons. One of the policemen, who was struck in the hea
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
> It’s like how a bar doesn’t need to have 100% of its customers be bikers to be known as a biker bar. Reminds me of this bartender tale: https://twitter.com/IamRageSparkle/status/128089153745134387...
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
What Parler was, was bad for business. It's not a good look for AWS to be hosting websites with violent content linked to the Capitol insurrection, and apparently doing nothing about it. So they pulled the plug.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
This is about web hosting companies not wanting to be associated with a site linked to the Capitol insurrection. It has nothing to do with any supposed "cancel culture".
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
I think the general guideline is, don't provide your hosting provider with incentives to enforce their terms of service against you, to the point where you're denied any further business from them.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
8chan (8kun) is back online, yes. They just used a different hosting provider.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
It's not, this has happened many times previously. Including against similarly far-right sites, e.g. Stormfront, Gab, 8kun/8chan, etc. All of which are still operational, after changing hosting providers.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
Yes but considering the business Parler are in, i.e. publishing the sort of controversial content that gets its users banned on more mainstream social media sites, they would have been wise to have a disaster recovery plan for hosting that
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying your position, but I still don't quite see how this applies to Parler in terms of their decision to host upon AWS. There are many thousands of other hosting companies worldwide, they didn't have to use one of
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
That is quite the hypothetical. Given that the internet is a worldwide phenomenon, it seems incredibly unlikely that all server companies and internet service providers would refuse their business. In particular, the 'bulletproof hos
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
How is it an antitrust case? Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on hosting internet services. And there is no oligopoly for this line of business, there are many thousands of suitable providers worldwide. It would be different if, say, Cen
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
They pretty much already did. In corporate PR terms, "it contravened our Terms of Service" is essentially synonymous with "we don't want to be associated with it".
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
The threshold is if the management at Amazon etc. feel that it would generate too much bad publicity and/or potential legal liability for them to provide service to an organization mired in such controversy.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
Indeed, and I think it's because Parler is best known for hosting violent, far-right content, that is linked to the recent insurrection at the Capitol Building. Whereas the other services you cite are much more generic in their cliente
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
"Antifa riots" is a somewhat vague descriptor, but may well be yes, depending on which incident or incidents you're referring to. Are you sure you haven't heard anyone describe anti-fascist actions as terrorism? I believ
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
How is it not a counterexample? TPB has user registration, submissions and comments, and a search function. Conceptually, this isn't too different to the function of Parler. Also, the introduction of magnet links (or more generally, th
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
Yes you can, it just means the scalability has to be designed in without using AWS/GCP/Azure services. Just like we all used to do it.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
It'll certainly be interesting to see what happens to the Republican party over the next few years, given that they've ended up tying themselves so strongly to Trump's cult of personality.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
I think the issue is more that Trump, who is a highly divisive character, has become the face of the Republican party. So people end up conflating the ostracism of Trump and those in his periphery with an attack on the Republican party.
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
As a counterexample: The Pirate Bay have successfully dealt with this sort of thing for many years, and they were subject to much harsher and more sustained censorship. Including legal attacks by various nation states. Is it really totalita
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
This does fit the definition of terrorism though: violent action, or threats of violent action, for political purposes. I think it would be very difficult to argue that last week's invasion of the Capitol Building was neither violent n
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by eejit_compiler 6y ago
Amazon aren't the only provider of hosting services, even if they are one of the largest. It's entirely doable to shift providers, even in the face of censorship - The Pirate Bay is one long-running example of this.