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Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





CancerCakes posted:

Are there even any realistic alternatives to aws? I thought it pretty much is the internet by now

azure (microsoft)
google cloud compute (google)
ibm has one, pretty sure oracle does too but those are probably to give people already stuck in their walled garden a choice

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rbk
Nov 2, 2005

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Castor Poe posted:



Imagine this being the last thing you see as you slowly die of a heart attack and the smell of your burnt balls, which you accidentally tazered yourself cause you're a loving moron, fills your nostrils lol

Tip O’Neill once said all politics is local, but the taser is clearly more localized.

SweetWillyRollbar posted:

"THIS IS SACRED GROUND!" I scream while dropping my tactical pants and popping a squat to poo poo all over the floor.

Chuds keep talking about “the people’s house!” and then treating it worse than my cats’ litterbox

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

A Sometimes Food posted:

I think China's got an equivalent in case the US cut off access or something lol.

I think China is all Alibaba and Tencent. The Chinese Internet is very much its own thing, with very few crossovers with the rest of the net. Would not surprise me if they have laws restricting the use of foreign cloud services.

EA Sports
Feb 10, 2007

by Azathoth

Fistboy posted:

Why is the left so hateful against other people? Trump's followers are hateful as well. People wake up......seriously.

people who care about politics tend to be fueled by spite. the algorithm reinforces it among them and eventually people are just having a laugh over scenes of newborns on the other side being torn apart by wolves.

Zeinin
May 7, 2003


So how isolated is J. Reginald "donald" trungus today?

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Zeinin posted:

So how isolated is J. Reginald "donald" trungus today?

As isolated as my balls, which are at opposite ends of the oort cloud.

TheKingslayer
Sep 3, 2008

Zeinin posted:

So how isolated is J. Reginald "donald" trungus today?

Hard to say. Increasingly isolated by the minute I'm afraid.

Neco
Mar 13, 2005

listen

Shanghaied posted:

I think China is all Alibaba and Tencent. The Chinese Internet is very much its own thing, with very few crossovers with the rest of the net. Would not surprise me if they have laws restricting the use of foreign cloud services.

They do. Services that operate in China must use servers in China so they can be controlled.

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

A Sometimes Food posted:

Yahoo bought it for $1.1 billion, banned porn, then sold it for $3 million to wordpress who promptly unbanned porn.
Pretty sure porn is still very much banned on Tumblr to avoid their app getting kicked off of the App Store again.

!Klams
Dec 25, 2005

Squid Squad

Pot Smoke Phoenix posted:

"Violence works make them afraid"

Yeah, it works to shoot yourself in the foot, "

You mean "taze yourself in the balls"

Neco
Mar 13, 2005

listen

Nick Jr. Face posted:

hooooo boy that is some incriminating poo poo

A deep analysis of a speech, Twitter is the perfect platform! *breaks up text into literally 200 tweets*

I get why he posted it on twitter but still what the gently caress

A Sometimes Food
Dec 8, 2010

The Kins posted:

Pretty sure porn is still very much banned on Tumblr to avoid their app getting kicked off of the App Store again.

Fair nuff. The important part is Yahoo lost $1097 million dollars buying a service people used almost entirely for porn or artists (who also did porn) then banned porn. Which is very very funny.

curlys gold
Jan 17, 2018

rbk posted:

Chuds keep talking about “the people’s house!” and then treating it worse than my cats’ litterbox

well did you see that dork wearing combat boots on his carpet?

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Xenocides posted:

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1348116976019771392

Click through for a nerd explaining why Parler is probably doomed.

As funny as this is it's a bit of a poo poo situation when a website or app can be essentially wiped out on the whim of a handful of billionaires.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

CancerCakes posted:

Are there even any realistic alternatives to aws? I thought it pretty much is the internet by now

There's probably a bunch of sketchy Russian ones if you don't mind massive security breaches and users data getting stolen.

gay picnic defence
Oct 5, 2009


I'M CONCERNED ABOUT A NUMBER OF THINGS

Xenocides posted:

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1347909214203760644

This is a very long thread if you click through but it is a good and creepy analysis of Trump’s incitement speech.

gently caress me, why wouldn't the guy just tweet a link to an actual article instead of an unreadable 150 post twitter thread?

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

gay picnic defence posted:

There's probably a bunch of sketchy Russian ones if you don't mind massive security breaches and users data getting stolen.

Isn't that what most chud sites are like already? They'd probably be right at home!

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
I normally use one of those tweet unroll-y things to read those, because I'm not going to click through 150+ posts

hey mom its 420
May 12, 2007

curlys gold posted:

whoa whoa whoa what does being a bisexual psychopath have to do with eating spiders

i feel attacked

i'd feel attacked too if someone was shaming my appetite for arachnids

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

fappenmeister posted:

Threads is awesome and super depressing. Low budget 80s nuclear apocalypse movies are rad. Not sure if this is regional, but there's a weird Australian one called One Night Stand https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087844/ that's on Prime Video at the moment, at least here in Australia.

Miracle Mile is also awesome, that scared the piss out of me as a kid though.

I remember watching Threads when I was young, and yes it's extraordinarily grim and bleak. The only thing I can really remember is the ending, with the camera slowly backing away from the woman giving birth.

Another good (grim and bleak) nuclear war story is "When The Wind Blows" by Raymond Briggs (comic and also animated).

lol

busalover
Sep 12, 2020

gay picnic defence posted:

As funny as this is it's a bit of a poo poo situation when a website or app can be essentially wiped out on the whim of a handful of billionaires.

yeah we're at the mercy of feudal overlords

Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





gay picnic defence posted:

As funny as this is it's a bit of a poo poo situation when a website or app can be essentially wiped out on the whim of a handful of billionaires.
AWS's thing is it makes it easier at a cost of having to adhere to how AWS does things. you don't have to go with them but they make the process easier

alternatively there's a bajillion other people who will do the same thing pretty much, although probably not as nicely as AWS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cloud_computing_providers

The Kins
Oct 2, 2004

A Sometimes Food posted:

Fair nuff. The important part is Yahoo lost $1097 million dollars buying a service people used almost entirely for porn or artists (who also did porn) then banned porn. Which is very very funny.
Oh, for sure!

CancerCakes posted:

Are there even any realistic alternatives to aws? I thought it pretty much is the internet by now
There are a number of other huge cloud services like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, but they have big "NO GIRLS SEDITION ALLOWED" signs on the door which rules out Parler. Their only realistic options would be either an overseas service like Russia's Yandex Cloud or whatever nebulous entity hosts the various #chan sites.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Wifi Toilet posted:

Someone who is good at art do that zoom out thing so we see it's Trump shooting her.

Not doing animation but here ya go, a few minutes but it's a start:

Strong Sauce
Jul 2, 2003

You know I am not really your father.





Humphreys posted:

Not doing animation but here ya go, a few minutes but it's a start:



lol.

come on man trump is thick as gently caress down there.

Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


Xenocides posted:

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1347909214203760644

This is a very long thread if you click through but it is a good and creepy analysis of Trump’s incitement speech.

gay picnic defence posted:

gently caress me, why wouldn't the guy just tweet a link to an actual article instead of an unreadable 150 post twitter thread?

Yeah, I don't know why a bunch of people these days think Twitter is the best medium to get an essay out. Anyway, it's compiled here in just one link. Do read it, it's pretty insightful.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

It's interesting but a lot of it seems a bit wishy washy

Tinestram
Jan 13, 2006

Excalibur? More like "Needle"

Grimey Drawer

gay picnic defence posted:

As funny as this is it's a bit of a poo poo situation when a website or app can be essentially wiped out on the whim of a handful of billionaires.

As Corey points out in the thread, AWS still hosts the Enquirer, who threatened to run a pic of Bezos' dick. The bar for getting thrown off is pretty high, and I'm honestly shocked that they didn't immediately get shut off.

curlys gold
Jan 17, 2018

SilvergunSuperman posted:

It's interesting but a lot of it seems a bit wishy washy

its probably enough to make a personal attorney very unhappy

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

gay picnic defence posted:

As funny as this is it's a bit of a poo poo situation when a website or app can be essentially wiped out on the whim of a handful of billionaires.

Strong Sauce posted:

AWS's thing is it makes it easier at a cost of having to adhere to how AWS does things. you don't have to go with them but they make the process easier

As everyone's favourite dead gay French philosopher Michel Foucault reminds us, that's just how we are controlled under neoliberalism. You don't need to outright forbid things, you just make them economically unfeasible. You don't have to use AWS or Azure or Google, but it will make things more expensive for you. And you will eventually be outcompeted in the market, which is never neutral or fair, but always embodies the interest of the powerful. Even if you don't want to make money, at the end of the day, the things that you need to physically survive, i.e. food and shelter, can only be obtained with money. So unless you are independently wealthy, you are going to have to play by the rules of the market, the alternative is destitution and death.

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

SilvergunSuperman posted:

It's interesting but a lot of it seems a bit wishy washy

He explicitly tells law and military"come up with us" and then says "we're marching to the capitol to STOP THE STEAL"

He literally asks the military to accompany him to the capitol to stop elected officials from certifying an election, but yeah let's hold on for a minute...

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

I'm just saying a good lawyer could weasel out of a lot of that.

Ofc it'll be Rudy so...

Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Shanghaied posted:

As everyone's favourite dead gay French philosopher Michel Foucault reminds us, that's just how we are controlled under neoliberalism. You don't need to outright forbid things, you just make them economically unfeasible. You don't have to use AWS or Azure or Google, but it will make things more expensive for you. And you will eventually be outcompeted in the market, which is never neutral or fair, but always embodies the interest of the powerful. Even if you don't want to make money, at the end of the day, the things that you need to physically survive, i.e. food and shelter, can only be obtained with money. So unless you are independently wealthy, you are going to have to play by the rules of the market, the alternative is destitution and death.

AWS is not a bargain for most commercial uses; its convenient at best and poo poo like Parleur is loving garbage tier software that in no universe is going to scale well enough on any service to compete with any actual media platform.

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

Neco posted:

A deep analysis of a speech, Twitter is the perfect platform! *breaks up text into literally 200 tweets*

I get why he posted it on twitter but still what the gently caress

Yeah I got bogged down at around tweet 30 something. wtf

busalover
Sep 12, 2020
lol I just found out about bitchute, wtf is that poo poo. it's like oliver stone had a peyote dream.

Escape From Noise
Jul 27, 2004

busalover posted:

lol I just found out about bitchute, wtf is that poo poo. it's like oliver stone had a peyote dream.

I had to look it up but great wikipedia description. The literal first sentence: BitChute is a video hosting service known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful material. 

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

Blitter posted:

AWS is not a bargain for most commercial uses; its convenient at best and poo poo like Parleur is loving garbage tier software that in no universe is going to scale well enough on any service to compete with any actual media platform.

Well, allowing nazis and terrorists is a pretty unique value proposition I guess? I mean, after Jack and Zuck finally changed their minds this week (lol), that is.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

SweetWillyRollbar posted:

I had to look it up but great wikipedia description. The literal first sentence: BitChute is a video hosting service known for accommodating far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful material. 

lol I just read it as Bitch Ute.

Blitter
Mar 16, 2011

Shanghaied posted:

Well, allowing nazis and terrorists is a pretty unique value proposition I guess? I mean, after Jack and Zuck finally changed their minds this week (lol), that is.

I'm not sure what you mean, do you think twitter and facebook don't use their own datacenters?

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Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde
Is there any estimate on how big the riot actually was? A quick Google and wikipedia aren't providing any answers. And I mean the whole crowd, not just the trespassers.

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