Posts by jake

Re: Goodbye Parler

As a Great One once said, correlation does not imply causation.

Re: What about places that hinders me to enter if I don't abide to their rules?

Apparently it's hard to separate reality from fiction when you are in an echo chamber and everyone's talking at once. This was inevitable when they removed critical thinking from the list of important things children should know before graduating grade-school.

Re: What about places that hinders me to enter if I don't abide to their rules?

Yes, the US has a specific law about conspiracy. In a nutshell, conspiracy is defined as two or more people agreeing to break a law or laws.

::sighs::

You're looking at it from a very myopic point of view.

The client in this case has upwards of 45,000 seats. Care to calculate how much time (money) would be wasted cumulatively by all those people over the space of a year without blacklists? The numbers are far higher than you might think.

Thin skin? Far from it. Pragmatic would be a better word.

Re: Small difference

What does twitter's market cap have to do with kicking all career politicians off so-called "social" media, world wide? The GreatUnwashed will forget the liars were ever online at all within a week or s ... OHHH! Look! A new cute kitty video!

"you have essentially killed any hosts based in Poland"

I have already had one call from a client asking me to preemptively add all of Poland to their custom black hole list over this. They think the country will quickly become a spam/troll haven. I advised that they take a "wait and see" position for now, but if they insist I'll happily do as they ask.

Re: Small difference

Name checks out.

Hint: Trump was not banned for any one specific post.

He was banned for his cumulative asshattery.

Before you ask, yes I think the asshats in Tehran should also be banned from so-called "social" media. As should all other career politicians, world-wide. They are all, every fucking one of them, a bunch of self-serving liars anyway, so no great loss.

Re: Modern Fakes

Nah. Magic is one of the ways that James Randi attempted to teach critical thinking.

Re: multipage .tiff files

Not in this screen font.

Re: Modern Fakes

The modern Sharpie brand indelible marker was introduced in 1964.

Permanent markers in general were invented in 1953 by Sidney Rosenthal. He called his version the Magic Marker. You may have heard of it.

Re: "Hello world!" ?

Yes. It says "Destruction sequence activated".

Re: What could possibly go wrong? A. Just look around you.

Horizontal Gene Transfer doesn't just happen at the bacteriological level. I have Zinfandel (Primitivo) grapes with what appears to be genes from eucalyptus weeds embedded in their DNA. So does what used to be the Ravenswood Winery here in Sonoma ... I didn't do it, not on purpose anyway, because I don't like the flavo(u)r of VapoRub in my grapes, nor in my plonk. I continue to grow, press, and ferment a couple rows of them, as a favo(u)r for UC Davis

I have no idea what Constellation Brands is planning to do with Ravenswood's acreage now that they've kicked Joel out. Probably squander it, just like they did the world-class tasting room. Fucking corporate assholes.

Richard P. Feynman outlined pretty much the same thing in the late '50s, in his "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom".

Skinner et al, at the University of Arizona, managed retrievable data storage on DNA in 2017.

But apparently this is the first time someone's managed read/write capability within living cells.

Re: hello world ?

I was expecting numerous variations on I LOVE YOU ...

Re: AWS now liable?

Except I think you'll find that in the fine print that you agreed to when you joined the service, they CAN change the rules willy nilly. And often do.

Define "fair". Keep in mind I'm providing a service that you are not paying for.

Re: A shameful time for big tech and supporters

Navarro report? You mean Peter Navarro's take on the situation?

Well, he WOULD say that, wouldn't he? Massaging Trump's ... uhh ... ego is a very good way to Get Rich Quick without needing the help of Prince Ngambo of Lagos and his HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS (US) that needs your bank account number to access.

As for Guiliani, it would seem that he failed to bring all those "affidavits" to the Judge's attention while he had the chance. Or perhaps he did bring them up, but the Judge poo-pooed them. I wonder why that might be? Could it be he is a bad lawyer? Or did he have no evidence that stood up to actual scrutiny?

Re: Twitter is acting entirely properly, the problem is in relying on twitter

"I guess you don't remember public access cable, now a historical curiosity after the right stomped on it."

See Northern California Public Media ... Seems to be working, although the internal politics leave a lot to be desired. Same story the world over: too many queens, not enough pawns.

Re: AWS now liable?

Here at the Ranch, we reserve the right to ask people to leave if the dawgs or horses get upset in their presence. It has happened.

Re: Cost?

MAGA hats are still considered de rigueur? Who wants to advertise that they are one of the Muppets Annoying Genuine Americans?

Re: And so Conquests Second Law is proved true yet again..

"it looks like about 80%/90% of el Regs readers are in all in favor of political censorship and suppressing anyone whose opinion they dont like."

Not true. At all. What we are is aware of the very real costs involved in running the equipment ... including the costs of dealing with feedback from the proletariat when a user is unhinged.

One of my rules is "no abuse of the equipment". My brain is part of the equipment. If I am being abused due to your behavior, you will lose your account(s).

My box, my rules. Don't like it? Sue me.

Re: And so Conquests Second Law is proved true yet again..

"And if you dont understand that Free Speech one of those all or nothing questions then you dont understand what Free Speech actually is."

Why THANK YOU! What a lovely person you are, offering such a fine example of charity to poor little me. Please send the password to your server immediately, so I can use it to spread my message. Ta.

Re: AWS now liable?

And I can drive off a cliff, too. Your point?

Re: AWS now liable?

Well, yes, you can make your own, if you like. I have made several batches of Jane Austen's family ink recipe, and it works quite well with a quill pen (or modern equivalent, if you don't have access to foul). Paper's a trifle harder, but doable. DDG either (or both) for details. These are good projects to do with your tweenager(s). Think completely hand-made greeting cards.

However, in this modern world you can anonymously purchase paper and ink by the ton(ne). Same for all the pre-press and darkroom supplies you will need.

For subversive material & distribution you're on your own.

Re: A shameful time for big tech and supporters

"and hundreds of sworn statements detailing abuses"

Hundreds? Really? Where are they? Post proof or retract.

Hint before you start: Several Trump appointed Judges looked at the Trump's so-called evidence and said there was no case to be made. Not one of them, mind. ALL of them.

Re: Twitter is acting entirely properly, the problem is in relying on twitter

"I *think* Mastodon is in this model..."

Why re-invent the wheel? We've had IRC, Usenet, Fido and UUCP longer than we've had TCP/IP.

Re: 1st amendment

"and more planned"

When three sit down to talk revolution, two are fools and the third is a police spy.

But Trump hasn't been censored, AC

He's free to spout his drivel anywhere he likes. But not on my systems. And apparently not on Twitter's.

Tell me, AC, is he free to use your gear, at your expense, to spew his garbage?

And evaporate it did. The "twitter protest" in San Francisco consisted of one lone person waving a very small American flag.

Seriously. They had a protest in San Francisco, and nobody came.

I guess there is a first time for everything.

Re: AWS now liable?

This isn't a freedom of speech issue. It's a freedom of the press issue. And as we all know, "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one."[0]

I own a printing press (two, actually). I am allowed to take contracts to print anything I like, for anybody I like (obvious exceptions exist: kitty pR0n, national secrets, etc.). But it's my press, so I am allowed to reject any contract if I don't agree with the message I am asked to print.

However, I am ALSO allowed to accept a contract I do not agree with, if I need/want the money. And I am free to reject a reprint of that contract, or further work from that party, if I no longer need the money. Or simply because I don't want to. Completely capriciously.

It's my press. My power over its output is absolute. If I refuse to print xtian or nazi or MyLittlePony propaganda, it is not censorship. The person requesting it can go elsewhere to get it printed. Or they can purchase their own press and print it for themselves.

Anybody who doesn't like this are free to not contract with me to do their printing. They can even ask their friends to not use my services. But they can NOT force me to print for them. The law doesn't work that way.

[0] In 1941, Norman Woelfel published a work called “The Fourth and Fifth Estate” which included the following quote: "It is foolish to assume, because in America we do not have an official propaganda agency dictating what shall be broadcast, that American radio is free. Like the press which is free for those who own and control it, the radio is free for those who can buy equipment, hire technicians and talent, and secure profitable advertising contracts.". Today, I rather suspect he would have included "Internet Servers" in that sentiment.

Re: Distributed options

Isn't going to happen. The systems are already in place, and in use, planet-wide (IRC, Usenet, FidoNet, UUCP et alia). However, the brain-dead idiots the rabble-rousers are trying to recruit are too fucking stupid to figure out anything more complex than point & drool.

Re: Now, alas, it plays host to Bork.

Depends on how up to date your version is.

Re: Damnit!

Depends on how you define "ridiculously slow" ... Will your power source survive long enough to find out? Will you? Will the continent?

Re: what is linux good for?

"it's mostly the asinine case sensitive filesystem that irks me"

Funny you should mention that .... I can't get my head around a case-insensitive operating system. I mean, not only did some "genius" decide that "a" is functionally the same as "A" (and etc.), they actually went out of their way to code a computer to work that way ... and THEN managed to convince a bunch of other people that this brain-dead idea was a good one!

The mind absolutely boggles.

Re: As long as

So compile it on your fastest Linux box, with the GCC target CPU set to PDP-11. Should only take a few minutes. Cross-compiling is fun, educational, and quite lucrative sometimes. Try it, you might like it.

Re: So what?

Can I run this MicroChannel controller on your Pi?

Re: Damnit!

Devious? Nah. I'd call it analyzing the problem, and implementing a least-cost solution.

Or, in the language of my youth, "a nice hack".

Re: As long as

Stick BSD on that VAX. Worked for kremvax and moscvax, comrade.

Re: Damnit!

Don't laugh. 8-bit Linux actually exists.

It's kind of slow, though. A couple hours to get a bash prompt from a cold boot, using init=/bin/bash as the kernel command line.

Re: Dear me

486? Newbie!

I've got a contract for LSI-11s still cranking out machine parts[0] ... Just renewed the support contract for "one more year". Again. It's been over 30 years since I took over when the manufacturer went belly-up ... Easy money never gets old.

[0] Granted, they are not running Linux.

Re: what is linux good for?

Who said anything about Windows? When it comes to embedded, the small stuff is often too small to boot MS-DOS 1.0 ...