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18pfsmton Area 51 FBI Raid (2023)

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.

18pfsmton Meta blocking news links in Canada

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.

18pfsmton Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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.

18pfsmton Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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

18pfsmton Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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...

18pfsmton Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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.

18pfsmton Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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

That's from a week ago.

18pfsmton Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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.

18pfsmton “This is absolutely related to Twitter not paying their Google Cloud bills”

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.

18pfsmton Tell HN: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode

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.

18pfsmton Welcome to Hell, Elon

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.

18pfsmton People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

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.

18pfsmton People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

Chief Twit*

18pfsmton People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

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...

18pfsmton People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

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.

18pfsmton People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

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?

18pfsmton The Babylon Bee's Twitter account is no longer suspended

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.

18pfsmton Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk

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

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

18pfsmton Tesla Engineers Visit Twitter Office to Review Code for Musk

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.

18pfsmton Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation

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.

18pfsmton “We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”

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.

18pfsmton Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

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.

18pfsmton Covid lesson: trust the public with hard truths

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).

18pfsmton Ask HN: Any Decent Firefox Alternatives?

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

18pfsmton The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

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.

18pfsmton Delta does not appear to make children sicker

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."

18pfsmton Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

I think HN is more likely to have overlap with Mastodon and other federated networks. Most of us that seem to be arguing in support of Parler are really just worried about arbitrary and authoritarian approaches to content moderation and infrastructure.

HN is for discussing ideas even when they do not affect us directly.

18pfsmton Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Elections cannot be over turned by occupying a building in the USA for a couple hours, This is unnecessarily hyperbolic and very partisan.

Congress completed their duties later in the evening.

18pfsmton Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

As a big proponent of the free market, I think the problem stems from "sometimes free market."

Also, it seems that these moves by tech companies are acting in unison (Apple, Google, Amazon) to the satisfaction of one political party (that just happens to have won 2 branches of the federal government).

18pfsmton Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

As a free market fundamentalist that usually gets massive pushback, I'm having trouble believing that most people making this argument normally promote free markets.

It certainly seems politically slanted in a single direction. Either way, I hope more people join the Fediverse and get away from these walled-gardens.