John Pepall

Writer on politics, law and history of Canada and beyond. Author of Against Reform

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@DougSaunders @DSProudfoot It’s the Dominion of Canada or the 51st state I’m for the Dominion

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@toxicapitalist @MitziPepall @HistoryArcs Educate yourself!!!! Hitler forced the French to surrender in the Compiègne Wagon where the Germans signed the Armistice in 1918 Did a little jig to celebrate his victory And it was 1871 when Wilhelm I was proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles

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This is not the statement of a leader.
This is a statement from a feckless bureaucrat.
Carney needs to do better.
Canada deserves better.

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@BillboardChris You’ve got way out over your skis and are imperiling the good work you have done

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@BillboardChris A sickening pseudo-Trumpian stunt No fancy ‘hereby’ document is needed start the process leading to an Order in Council 100% conceited Carney is trying to show he’s in charge, Commander in Chief He may not even know, or care, how our government is run The PM has no legal power

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Your tax dollars at work spreading Liberal Party propaganda https://t.co/AbGoedGsEl

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https://t.co/aLRPiFcMAY responsible for all telecommunications in Canada cannot be reached on the Web Typical of government 'service' in Canada

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The first quarerly Dorchester Review will be out later this month. In the meantime my take on the Hoity Tories from the December issues is availabe online https://t.co/4e3gov0njD

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@thephilippics Philip, it is complicated and being resolved. Dont jump to criticize until you know what is going on. It is a grand adventure. From Mitzi Pepall

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Some people asked me to share what I just shared in a space about the rate limits. I don't work for Twitter but, I do architect IT cloud solutions as my day job.

It is temporary. Twitter's rate limiting is not what everyone is thinking it is. It is not to punish non-paying users.

"Data scraping" is a big deal. This is where automated systems load the website or app and pull your tweets/data. It's a huge security issue. Automated systems are pulling every tweet/word/user account information to store in an unknown database somewhere else.

This could be state actors like China, the US Government, Australia, or other bad political actors like PAC's that are trying to gain access to everyone's information to analyze and use for nefarious things. Manipulating what is said on the site can be done at scale with data scrapping.

It could also be used to figure out the identity of Anons or to punish people in their country for what they tweet. Looking at you #Australia and #Canada and #UnitedKingdom

The temporary measures of limiting tweets is to protect users just as much as it is to protect the entire Twitter network from going down. They are currently scrambling to get ahead of this and tune their network security to block it from happening again.

It's also important to note that twitter has 500,000+ servers. That's not free. In cloud data centers, the companies that use them have to pay for what is called "ingress and egress" of data going "in and out" of the servers. A data scrapping event that is large enough for them to start limiting means that it was a MASSIVE event that could be considered an attack on the site. It would also put massive load on their servers and cost them so much money it could threaten the site's financial ability to keep running. It could be on purpose to put twitter out of business from cost alone.

Many people are misunderstanding why @elonmusk wants people to pay for twitter or for the twitter API (a programming interface that can pull data for other sites and apps).

The reason he wants people to pay is because if China or porn companies want to create massive bot farms of fake accounts, it is currently free. These bad actors are highly skilled and operate like a business. They have professional staff that continuously change their tactics and Twitter engineers have to fight 24/7 to stay ahead of them. If they have to pay for every account or pay to use the API, it would cost them A LOT of money. This limits the amount of people who could create bots, put automated porn on here, and the hacking/scrapping/DDOS attacks on the site. It protects you.

It also guarantees twitter will continue to exist without bloating it with tons of ads. This is all a part of the plan to create a free-speech place we can enjoy without being controlled by outside actors or advertising companies. I know $8 is a lot to some people but, it is for many reasons. None of the reasons are to hurt or punish people.

#TwitterDown #TwitterLimits #SolutionsArchitect #CloudSecurity #FreeSpeech

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@turbarius Tehe Sovereign Military Order of Malta

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Why is https://t.co/TK4OujDMK3 not included in major polls for the Toronto Mayor election? @IpsosCanada, @AngusReidForum, @AbacusData

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I didn’t vote in the municipal election on Monday First election I haven’t voted in There were people I wanted defeated I had no way of knowing who could defeat them or whether any who could weren’t worse My only consolation is that some bad ones were defeated by others as bad

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@ScottMcHale @sfchronicle How many tribes are there, some of their languages are as close as Russian and Chinese. A chief is the head of something. That is all it means. It confers the meaning that the person referred to is in charge. Get a grip.

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@ot_ford @sfchronicle Note from my Irish wife:
The head of the Irish state is called the Taoiseach, which means Chief. Irish leaders in the ancient days were Chieftains. It is a word and it has a meaning.

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@LeeLee2k @sfchronicle Note from my Irish wife who calls BS on this.
The head of the Irish state is called the Taoiseach, which means Chief. Irish leaders in the ancient days were Chieftains. It is a word and it has a meaning. And banning it for imaginary reasons is a bad idea.

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@neontaster Note from my Irish wife:
The head of the Irish state is called the Taoiseach, which means Chief. Irish leaders in the ancient days were Chieftains. It is a word and it has a meaning. And banning it for imaginary reasons is a bad idea.

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Deutsche Welle publishes its defence of the new Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact https://t.co/ajpy4o2pNi

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I return to blogging at https://t.co/4xSyXGcBbo with allusive and intertextual reflections on the truckers convoy and emergency measures before they are quite forgotten @acoyne @davidfrum @jonkay @calxandr @RickAnderson

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De mortui and all that but as

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was particularly proud of his hounding of the late Rob Ford one might be permitted to speculate whether Honderich's hounding of Ford hastened the latter's death

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@SparkesWanda @acoyne You mean the disgrace of lives crushed for 2 years by Official Doctors egged on by extremists on the CBC like Andrew 1