@CraigChamberlin@krassenstein Unfortunately, the profit lies in "engagement". Like the tabloid media before them social media giants have learned that contempt, anger, and sensationalisation breeds publicity, and publicity translates into revenue. There's no profit in being nice. q.v. Twitter.
@Todd_Spence That is a heavily edited extract. The original segment from a documentary film about Ellison - approximately 3m30 - can be found found on Youtube ("Harlan Ellison pay the writer"). He was always bluntly outspoken.
I'm seeing increasing numbers of servers and services apparently taking the very lazy tactical choice of blocking TOR, due to malicious traffic. Much to the detriment of the sort of people who have not just curiosity but a very legitimate NEED to use TOR.
I wish international service organisations would stick to quoting times in UTC, particularly for incidents or outages affecting multiple timezones. Everyone should know where they are relative to UTC.
Perfect demonstration of my (admittedly not original) attitude toward "cloud": https://t.co/17okIBTa7J
"Cloud is just a name for hardware you don't own, don't control, and rely on someone else to protect."
Yup. I'm a "keep it on-prem" cloud Luddite. I admit it.
Things to make you go "hmmmm": when a howto from an infosec services company tells you to copy the ssh private key from the server to the client, and not generate the keys on the client and copy the public key to the server...
So - is the answer to unauthorised web scraping for AI training data just to poison the well with deep (and slow) honey pots of pseudo randomly generated images and captions?
Doug @Rushkoff says that the ethic of today's "entrepreneur" is to #GoMeta - don't provide a product or a service, simply find a way to be a predatory squatter on a chokepoint between people who do useful things and people who use those things.
Today marks the first full moon of the new Lunar year 🐰
We are asking that you do not use sky lanterns , they can start wildfires & property fires, kill or injure livestock, and pollute our environment.