DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I'm sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn't get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?
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Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.
It happened so often on Reddit, it wasn't even news.
In unrelated news, hate is reduced across the world.
If we’re lucky it’s forever.
They're busy, collapse the data center support columns.
Says it was only 30 minutes in the description. Kinds weird they're telling us about it and not including thst bit in the title.
Who the fuck is still on that nazi shithole
Even the porn creators and erotic artists have left.
When you've lost the porn it's game over man.
Since you seem to know what platform have they moved to generally?
Nazis, I imagine.
Remember kids, only nazis support nazis.
I was just talking to a friend who's very anti-nazi (at least, that's what he says), told him that by staying there, he's feeding the nazis. He says that he's the resistance working from within lol. People would tell themselves all kinds of stories for convenience.
Ask him if he'd go to a nazi bar, and start a fist fight.
I mean, there's no comparison. Punching Nazis is always cool, Twitter is just talking to them, which never is. You and fifty friends go on Twitter and dunk on Nazis all day and you're still just at a table talking with the enemy. Take fifty friends to a Nazi bar and throw punches, you've just improved the neighbourhood.
And bots
My government emergency alerts :(
I actually emailed my local National Weather Service station awhile back asking if they’d post on Mastodon and even offered them a BlueSky invite and they wrote back saying only Twitter and Facebook were allowed and they’d be everywhere if it was approved by higher ups.
Someone made a BlueSky bot a few months ago for NWS notices and I’m pretty sure they covered every local one. I remember the person who made it asking people to request any missing stations. Not sure if there’s a Mastodon equivalent but you could use a bridge. It won’t help with transit delays or other local government announcements but the weather service stuff is available (via an AtProto <-> ActivityPub bridge if nothing else; it’s not like you interact with the posts so it’d be ideal for a bridge).
Make a bot that listens to those and posts them here.
It’s behind a paywall and I’m not paying that Nazi.
Or on Blue Sky or Mastadon
Hell reach put to your reps and tell them that they should have a Blue Sky and Mastodon for if something like this happens in the future.
Ain't no better time than now due to the Twitter outage.
Nazis, people who aren't bothered enough that a Nazi owns it to leave it for Bluesky, and bots, lots of bots.
Everyone strives for 5 9s, but musk aims for two 8s.
I don't get it
I don't know the 5 9s reference, but the two 8s is 88, a Nazi dog whistle for Heil Hitler, as H is the 8th letter of the alphabet.
I see what you did there....
We don't have 5 9s, but we do have 9 5s.
God I hope there's some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.
Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot
I love that for them
"Something went wrong. Try Mastodon."
What can we do to keep it like this forever?
The world had peace for 30 minutes.
No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.
Arkham Asylum grid failure
I'll celebrate when no one considers this to be news.
I assume we're in a similar boat so let me assure you: no, you won't - because we wouldn't even realize it happened.
Only after s few months one of us will recall this thread and be like "oh, yeah. Twitter. Seems really dead finally. Good."
And to be clear I expect they person to be you because my memory is awful.
I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.
He is really really dumb person, so it is not surprising he does stupid stuff. Look at cybershit, tesla robot (driven by people remotely), anything he did last year... He is fucking dumb idiot.
You are really surprised by a guy who wanted to name his car series S-E-X-Y and had a temper tantrum when model E was taken and he could not "buy" it.
It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"
Systemd now wants to do homedirs. Is that the same thing?
What do you mean “do” homedirs? Like be some kind of file system broker?
I'm glad he did, now there is a clear line from when it was acceptable to when it wasn't.
The USA probably won't rebrand when its a fully fascist state.
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Make it permanent next time.
Oh no.
Anyway…
Is tempting to check if it's still down. But wom't touch this ugly domain.
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