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  • On the post: Parler’s New Owner Shuts Down Site: ‘No Reasonable Person Believes Twitter For Conservatives Is A Viable Business Model’

    discussitlive ( profile ), 17 Apr, 2023 @ 04:07pm

    those looking for targets for their bile will only work if you also attract their targets
    Which is why some of the liberal news outlet comment boards are active. That's where the soul vampires you correctly identified flock to. It's a target them, and not all of the targets have learned the best response to an asshole is silence and shunning. Asshole in stewed bile. No one likes it on their plate, but no one minds watching it be made.

  • On the post: National Guardsman Arrested For Leaking Top Secret Ukraine War Documents On Discord

    discussitlive ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2023 @ 03:21pm

    I'm not guessing about this though:

    national guard probably doesn’t have the same secure e-mail infrastructure that the US armed forces are supposed to use.
    Run more than a "tiny" email farm, learn: Same song, chorus, this time with feeling Email is: 1. Not time Critical (Default is 24 hours to error notice, 5 days to final error - most folks fix that) 2. Not Guaranteed delivery (Nothing can fix that) 3. Piss poor at file transfers (Wasn't originally designed to do it in any way, shape or form - SCP or rsync - hell UUCP is better!) 4. Not Secure absent the entire message is encrypted with a nothing subject line 5. Non-reputable Anyone that depends on RFC email is destined for disappointment at some point unless the email only circulates on your own server and no where else. I can't speculate if there is another set of software somewhere that does something similar to email but is all of the things above that standard email isn't.

  • On the post: Fox Hit With Sanctions For Withholding Information In Dominion Libel Lawsuit

    discussitlive ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2023 @ 01:02am

    why did they fire Lou Dobbs?
    Same reason a Fox (pun unintended) will gnaw it's own leg off.

  • On the post: NPR Says Enough Is Enough: Quits Twitter

    discussitlive ( profile ), 12 Apr, 2023 @ 09:56pm

    Conservatives suffered from social media “fact check”ing and “context” labels for quite some time.
    If they don't like it, all they have to do is stop lying. Simple solution really. Might even save 'em a few billion here and there. Those awards for actual malice can really add up.

  • On the post: ‘Free Speech’ Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical Of The Modi Government

    discussitlive ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 03:26pm

    not goading the trolls on?
    To date, I hadn't noticed they were any bastions of sanity or restraint. They don't need a reason; they are simply looking for an excuse.

  • On the post: Whoops: Congress Failed To Actually Fund Efforts To “Rip And Replace” Chinese Telecom Gear From U.S. Networks

    discussitlive ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 10:01am

    Anyhow: point is: if you are transmitting actual customer info (not just meta data, which goes toward impossible to fully secure from hostile infra) there that should (but I know it is not) be criminal negligence.
    The most cogent objection here can be summed up in two words. Kill switch.

  • On the post: Teslas Are A Privacy Nightmare: Staff Regularly Shared Camera Recordings, Made Memes & Jokes At Customers’ Expense

    discussitlive ( profile ), 11 Apr, 2023 @ 09:52am

    Asking for Info

    Just because I don’t find privacy to be important doesn’t mean that I supply information to arbitrary people who ask for it.
    I'm assuming you use a browser, and further, Javascript enabled since you are here and the site functions enough for you to post. "I could have fun wid dat."

  • On the post: After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files

    discussitlive ( profile ), 10 Apr, 2023 @ 12:52pm

    Court dates

    There are several Virtual Private Server providers you can turn to that will be very happy to rent you time on an internet connected system. I believe AWS will allow you a single, small VPS for free. All you have to do is to put in the hundreds of thousands of paid man hours into writing code to duplicate some one else's private property. Just for reference, as somewhat capable programmer will cost you around $100,000.00 a year with benefits. I'd have to think for a bit, but even a limited twitter clone would likely take about 15 programmers most of a year for a very, very feature limited copy, and with that one free AWS instance, would struggle to serve more than somewhere around 3,000 simultaneous users, or call it about 1.5 million dollars for a poor 3,000 user Twitter clone exclusive of your bandwidth costs. May we expect that check from you this week so we can assemble a team and get started?

  • On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them

    discussitlive ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2023 @ 08:57pm

    FSCKing around

    But filesystem checking is so much more amusing. To some of us, anyway. YMMV.
    "It's all fun and games until the file system editor gets involved..."

  • On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them

    discussitlive ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2023 @ 06:36pm

    business violates the warn act.
    I'm wondering if Musk's attorneys will have the arrogance to assert that since many worked from home, they didn't violate the 50 persons per site rule in the WARN act.

  • On the post: Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Reminds People He Laid Off That If They Disparage Him He May Sue Them

    discussitlive ( profile ), 06 Apr, 2023 @ 06:31pm

    You can say “fuck” here.
    Many years ago, someone pointed out to me that Humanity cannot reach maturity until the act of physical love is no longer associated with an insult. Because we don't willingly take someone we detest into sexual congress. More bluntly, we don't fuck fuckheads. Usually. }:->

  • On the post: Appeals Court Reverses Murder Conviction Of Cop Who Killed Suicidal Man 11 Seconds After Entering His House

    discussitlive ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2023 @ 02:38am

    Tools and options

    It seems the chief pursuit of police departments is to train their offers as if they were para-military. Since these training classes are frequently set in desirable vacation spots, with schedules that leave at least a small bit of time for other activities, these all-but-paid-for-vacations are highly sought after if for no other reason than that. And there are other, darker reasons they can be so sought after. The gorilla in the room is that we, frankly, have some pretty blood thirsty people in police departments. They don't like to only hurt people - they actively seek to kill. Problem one. When you train a person to execute a response to rare circumstance, such as actually needing a para-military action, the response is elicited by that self same training. Crudely, if your tool box only has a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail to be slammed flat. Problem two. Maybe if the para-military SWAT tactical training was also paired with psychological or de-escalation responses, problem two would be self correcting. Problem one is addressed the same as almost all other policing issues - Any cop not reporting fellow officers for illegal actions should themselves be considered an accomplice before and after the fact and prosecuted as such.

  • On the post: Media Has No Interest In Paying For Twitter Blue

    discussitlive ( profile ), 01 Apr, 2023 @ 06:21am

    Censorship is the act of the censor, silencing opinions based on viewpoint on platforms the censor controls. The ability of the silenced to dial elsewhere is irrelevant. Reasoning by analogy, then you'd be fine if I came into your living room and dropped a load as my form of expression. Fortunately, there are rights of private property in the United States, at least for the nonce. So, If I see you approaching my front door with a strained look in your eye and a quick step, you will not be invited in.

  • On the post: Media Has No Interest In Paying For Twitter Blue

    discussitlive ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2023 @ 10:19am

    We know you liked the woke ideological censorship the old management of Twitter provided for you, Yes, I do miss the days when people that posted violent and extremists views were told to take their crap elsewhere. Or I would, had I ever bothered with Twitter other than to use the API in alert programming, which is now non-functional due to Twitter policy. Their property, their rules. and you resent Musk for taking that censorship away. I'm not aware of anyone censored by Twitter. Simply those that were told, "No, you are not allowed to graffiti our garage door anymore." Trump even set up his own infrastructure because he was thrown off Twitter. Proof he wasn't censored at all. Just not allowed to use someone else private property anymore. But posting endless numbers of articles disparaging Musk isn’t going to bring the censorship back. 1. Truth is an absolute defense to defamation (or disparagement) 2. Opinion is protected absolutely. From the government. Not from private interests. An example is the restaurant, since closed, that had a sign on the front door that read "Woke Liberals NOT WELCOME HERE". So we didn't eat there. 3. No one of any import really cares about Twitter - it jumped the shark long ago. Musk's purchase merely accelerated it's fall in to utter inconsequence by a few months.

  • On the post: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban

    discussitlive ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2023 @ 11:07pm

    Stay away from social media. He said posting to social media On the internet, always use a good ad blocker. That is about 6 to 8 percent of the average user's threat surface, but it's better than "Use a VPN!" idiots. My throw away advice to people that don't want to pay my fees to give them a real assessment is to buy a laptop and remove the hard disk. Use a live DVD. Reboot before going into any high risk area such as shopping or banking. That takes care of about 80% of the issue. Most folks can't deal with a virtual machine server, or know when their image is compromised.

  • On the post: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban

    discussitlive ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2023 @ 07:14am

    Mr. Bennett, “spyware” kinda undersells the threat, Not really. Malware alters or removes access, spyware is simply snooping where you don't belong. that’s some dumbshit Masnick and other TD people write blink biink You didn't really just say that. If so, you are even less intelligent than I thought you were, and I'd have put money on it that isn't possible before. I could tell you why, but that is a service I charge for. A lot. Just to catch you up, It will be a sub frozen hydrogen temperature day before you are likely to have anything with regard to IT to "catch me up" on. COngress [SIC] is talking about banning TikTok from the US, all phones. They absolutely should do that. Yet you've been here multiple times complaining about censorship. Are you the type of person that lives with situational ethics, or are you secretly in the employ of Mr. Masnick to increase engagement at TechDirt? If so, Well played Mike. Well played. I will quote you this: “Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.” - R. Heinline When it becomes the job of Government to stop people from being stupid, we enter into the realm of Idiocracy and "Choosing winners and losers" in the genetic meliue. Or more colloquially, some people really are just too stupid to live.

  • On the post: The US Government Has Not Justified A TikTok Ban

    discussitlive ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 10:13pm

    How to tell if something is malware

    In the first place, it's spyware not malware. Just like Facebook, LinkedIn, and many other social media platforms - hell, even Strava (an exercise tracker) has relieved the presence of "secret" military bases simply because people used them during exercises. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42853072 I flat guarantee that 90% of the people reading this have zero idea just how much data and tracking they leave every day, and of those, 50% will under-estimate it by at least half. The reason to ban TikTok per se isn't because it's CCP, but because apps like TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, and others have zero place in secured government property. Where it gets problematic is when it's personal equipment. If I am entering a place with classified materials (government or corporate, and some corporations are more secure than many government locations), I am frequently instructed to divest all personal electronics before entry. That I consider to be prudent and wise. However, when I leave that material or facility behind, the government has no more business telling me what I can load on my personal electronics than it does to tell me I cannot read the New York Times or place comments on TechDirt.

  • On the post: Big Four Networks Push FCC To Further Erode Media Consolidation Limits

    discussitlive ( profile ), 23 Mar, 2023 @ 06:24am

    Funny you should mention this... https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/03/22/2116236/fcc-fines-15-year-old-pirate-radio-station-in-nyc-2-million

  • On the post: Congress Lets The FCC’s Spectrum Auction Authority Lapse For No Good Reason

    discussitlive ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2023 @ 01:16pm

    They have ubiquitous coverage because they are a small country with no mountains or deserts. I don't remember off hand which year, but AT&T got a USD 12,000,000,000.00 (12 billion) multi year grant to install fibre in several areas, including the Rocky Mountain and White Mountain area. Yet not one single inch of fibre was laid with that grant. They have an effective regulator, rather than the political football that the US calls a regulator. Well, that explains that quite effectively. However, I was hoping to bring Mr. Bennett to that particular place setting at that particular table.

  • On the post: Congress Lets The FCC’s Spectrum Auction Authority Lapse For No Good Reason

    discussitlive ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2023 @ 01:50pm

    Ms. Sohn and Mr. Bennett's objections

    Mr. Bennett, Please articulate exactly what, based on verifiably factual evidence in the public domain, exactly what you find objectionable about Ms. Sohn, and why? Why is it fine with you for AT&T, T-Mobile, and others to purchase RF spectrum for no other reason than to keep in place barriers to competition - isn't that a case of government (and thus government approved action) regulated monopolies "picking winners and losers"? In fact, they do not use that spectrum. Not at all. Not for one minute in a year. Why, exactly, can a country like Estonia have ubiquitous cell phone coverage for about 1/10th the price of US coverage, when their costs are largely the same? They buy the same equipment. They pay about the same for their engineers and technicians. And when an Estonian cell plan says "unlimited" - it's actually unlimited talk, text, AND DATA. No caps, no overage fees, no throttling, consistent 5G speeds. So - are you telling me little old Estonia (wonderful place, I enjoy visiting there) can do something that we, in the USA, cannot? Next, let us know why it's fine for AT&T to remove copper infrastructure and force people in small rural towns to go purchase a cell phone because the wired copper network has been ripped out and the copper sold for scrap? In many cases, this copper network was built by the communities, home owners, or general contractors, NOT AT&T or the phone company. At a high cost compared to POTS lines, I will add. Also, 'splain to us why it's fine for Internet companies to collect and sell internet usage data, including what domain names you've visited, for a profit to anyone that is willing to pay for it. Sort of like having a 24/7/365 pen register on your phone - which, if you've set up WiFi calling because your cell doesn't offer unlimited talk, the cable company also can capture. These are things Sohn was going to stop. So, please, let us know what you find objectionable - other than the right wing told ya "She's a bad, bad woman! BOO! SCARY!"

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