The day before the site went down Marjorie Taylor Green openly named it as the reason for her swatting, and went on primetime news to demand its shutdown. One of the last big posts beforehand was Null saying that if the government truly wanted him down, he would be shutdown and blamed it on her.
While I have no doubt Keffals is the prime cause of the problem, this isn't a Left only campaign. Retarded Righties also hate it for cataloguing idiocy regardless of side.
MTG got a call of someone claiming to be responsible for her swatting and said he was from the website kiwifarms. And they swatted her because of her anti trans statements.
You can bet the tranny movement has its hooks into the GOP. Never forget that it is top-down and billionaire backed. That's their donor class, not just the Dems. MTG herself is probably fucking clueless as usual, though.
The GOP has always been compromised. At best they are outdated retards clinging to a world that ceased to exist forever ago, otherwise they are just controlled opposition for the Dems to pretend they aren't the only party.
MTG is the only politician I know of that has called for doing what it takes to solve the tranny problem. She's a lot of things but she's not a stooge of the tranny agenda.
I think she opposes them as far as her world view goes, but she can be pulled into helping them, like she did here, because she doesn't really know WTF is going on and has handlers pulling her around.
MTG was unbelievably gullible at first, but since then she has evidently gotten the word that the Farms was framed, probably due to Nick Rekieta's video, and in subsequent interviews she has not named it nor called for it to be shut down.
I don't let the "8th page apology/retraction" thing slide from the rest of the media/Left, I won't here either.
Unless she outright comes out to say she was wrong, acted rashly, and should have done more research before going on fucking TV, then she gets no credit.
I'll admit I'm only familiar with small parts of the site but I like what I see when it comes to their reporting on some of the creatures that show up here.
Depends on the section. Most of the lolcow forums are nothing but SomethingAwful refugees who are as far left as it gets but refused to suck the girldick and got exiled and now want someone to bully because they're permanently stuck in their Mean Girls phase. But the rest of the site is about as basado as you can get. Especially A&N. They might actually qualify as too based.
as far left as it gets but refused to suck the girldick and got exiled and now want someone to bully
If they're going after trannies they're useful, even if they're doing it for the wrong reasons. Especially if they're going after the pedo site's tranny jannies.
There are very few Farmers who are pro-tranny, and most of them are relentlessly mocked. There have been admins that got chased off the site for being degenerate troons during the early years.
Any community that allows freedom of expression will ultimate trend toward hating trannies. Only carefully curated NPC safe spaces abide by them.
There's no such thing as being stalked on the internet unless you do something real dumb like uploading your life on social media and trying to make content out of it.
Don't know the lore on this one. Quick Google image look leads me to believe he was just a teenager who simply grew up. Am I missing something crucial here?
There's no such thing as being stalked on the internet unless you do something real dumb like uploading your life on social media and trying to make content out of it.
It's pretty easy to accidentally post something with identifying information that you didn't notice.
Easier said than done when online is all most people have for a social life, and it's nut just picture of yourself that you have to avoid posting but everything that might have information able to narrow down your location.
Regardless of what happens, I will decentralize our setup across multiple datacenters. In the near future, there will be no single point of failure. Since I acquired my own network, I have been stubborn and complacent in thinking that such a solution would be permanent. I've been aware of this single point of failure, but decided to ignore it, mostly because decentralization would be expensive. I have received extremely generous offers of support in the last few days. Long-term plans are being developed to keep the site up. However, it's unlikely anything can happen before Monday.
It's not hard to make a web site that can't be taken down. Just host it in places (not the US, EU, or commonwealth) where nobody gives a fuck.
The guys who ran The Pirate Bay had some interesting ideas on how to "safely" run things on hosted computers.
IIRC they only hardware under their direct control was a front-facing routing/load-balancing system that routed all traffic through VPN connections. Then they'd host different aspects of the website's software stack (database, web server, etc...) using different providers, also routing all that traffic through VPN and the router/load balancer.
The idea was to "blend in" as much as possible so the hosting providers don't know they're hosing part of TPB. Which is made easier by all the traffic being encrypted by and routed through the VPN. And if they did get caught/shut down by one provider, all they had to do was update a file on the router/load balancer to point it to a replacement host using a different provider.
Then for that routing/load balancing bit they had multiple hot backups in various parts of the world that were set up to auto-switchover if the primary went down.
Problem being, the only people who know how to do that... were running websites in 2004. You don't see distributed systems on owned hardware even being proposed these days, unless your email address has DOD or MIL in it somewhere. And colleges are teaching the CLOUUUUUUUD, not Big Iron.
A bit of a tangent and not related to hosting but I find it interesting how they all preach the cloud, yet anyone working in IT who has to keep privacy as their highest good does not go with the cloud. I noticed this at work.
No one likes the cloud, no one wants to go with a cloud solution to the point where esoteric software is preferred to the cloud software which might be better but is harder to justify. Kind of happy people are this based at work.
There is no "sysadmin" side of Computer Science. You'll want a MIS degree or something similar that is more of a vocational education than a scientific discipline.
If by "really high" you mean ~500 simultaneous commenters, yes. Of all the dumbest things I've ever done, volunteering to run a gaming forum was the dumbest.
The day before the site went down Marjorie Taylor Green openly named it as the reason for her swatting, and went on primetime news to demand its shutdown. One of the last big posts beforehand was Null saying that if the government truly wanted him down, he would be shutdown and blamed it on her.
While I have no doubt Keffals is the prime cause of the problem, this isn't a Left only campaign. Retarded Righties also hate it for cataloguing idiocy regardless of side.
MTG got a call of someone claiming to be responsible for her swatting and said he was from the website kiwifarms. And they swatted her because of her anti trans statements.
MTG just went completely retard and believed it.
That's because she is retarded. She might be our retard, but she's still retarded.
You can bet the tranny movement has its hooks into the GOP. Never forget that it is top-down and billionaire backed. That's their donor class, not just the Dems. MTG herself is probably fucking clueless as usual, though.
The GOP has always been compromised. At best they are outdated retards clinging to a world that ceased to exist forever ago, otherwise they are just controlled opposition for the Dems to pretend they aren't the only party.
MTG is the only politician I know of that has called for doing what it takes to solve the tranny problem. She's a lot of things but she's not a stooge of the tranny agenda.
I think she opposes them as far as her world view goes, but she can be pulled into helping them, like she did here, because she doesn't really know WTF is going on and has handlers pulling her around.
MTG was unbelievably gullible at first, but since then she has evidently gotten the word that the Farms was framed, probably due to Nick Rekieta's video, and in subsequent interviews she has not named it nor called for it to be shut down.
I don't let the "8th page apology/retraction" thing slide from the rest of the media/Left, I won't here either.
Unless she outright comes out to say she was wrong, acted rashly, and should have done more research before going on fucking TV, then she gets no credit.
what do you think the kiwifarm is? Israel? she's not going to apologize.
Kiwifarms is not a free speech site. It's a shithole of lefty retarded schizos and trannies (same thing I know).
Fuck them. I hope they burn and I hope Null ends up sucking dicks at Wafflehouse.
I'll admit I'm only familiar with small parts of the site but I like what I see when it comes to their reporting on some of the creatures that show up here.
Depends on the section. Most of the lolcow forums are nothing but SomethingAwful refugees who are as far left as it gets but refused to suck the girldick and got exiled and now want someone to bully because they're permanently stuck in their Mean Girls phase. But the rest of the site is about as basado as you can get. Especially A&N. They might actually qualify as too based.
If they're going after trannies they're useful, even if they're doing it for the wrong reasons. Especially if they're going after the pedo site's tranny jannies.
There are very few Farmers who are pro-tranny, and most of them are relentlessly mocked. There have been admins that got chased off the site for being degenerate troons during the early years.
Any community that allows freedom of expression will ultimate trend toward hating trannies. Only carefully curated NPC safe spaces abide by them.
"cAnCeL CuLturE iSnT ReAL!"
Every time.
these trannies used to have the common decency to neck, now they're inflicting themselves on humanity.
Did Bardfag use the really thick dilator again?
it's lucas not the wife-beater steve
I should also note that sonichu.com is down as well because Null is currently hosting it too.
Something's gone badly wrong in the timeline when the Chris-chan stalker forum is unambiguously one of the good guys in a fight.
They always were the good guys.
There's no such thing as being stalked on the internet unless you do something real dumb like uploading your life on social media and trying to make content out of it.
All you have to do to get out of the drama is improve your behavior, which is something regressive leftists cannot do as it requires deradicalization.
Apolitical lolcow SammyClassicSonicFan is a good example of this as his former trolls either left or became fans.
Don't know the lore on this one. Quick Google image look leads me to believe he was just a teenager who simply grew up. Am I missing something crucial here?
That's pretty much it, he smartened up as he got older.
It's pretty easy to accidentally post something with identifying information that you didn't notice.
No It's not.
All it takes is not to talk about your personal life with anyone online and never post pictures of yourself.
That's all it takes to be anonymous on the internet.
Easier said than done when online is all most people have for a social life, and it's nut just picture of yourself that you have to avoid posting but everything that might have information able to narrow down your location.
It's not hard to make a web site that can't be taken down. Just host it in places (not the US, EU, or commonwealth) where nobody gives a fuck.
Hearing him say it, it's actually extremely hard.
he's making it sound harder to juice donations
https://youtu.be/gP92u3ld1-w
What a drag. This is the first I've heard about Kiwi Farms. I am also not surprised that tranny fascists are responsible for their closure.
Gossip forum for women.
audubon catalog for lolcows
Oh, at the Sweet basics, a discussion forum, started on a Summer. Not for a Child.
fine, You want the unvarnished truth then? r/drama is the cleaned up version. Papparazzis without cameras. Gossipping old ladies without coffee.
Good effort, but having "not" be capitalized messes it up.
Damn. Didn't even notice. That's what proper grammar does to you.
Proof that some people should not put their life online for the entire world to see.
Its a New Zealand bird farm.
The guys who ran The Pirate Bay had some interesting ideas on how to "safely" run things on hosted computers.
IIRC they only hardware under their direct control was a front-facing routing/load-balancing system that routed all traffic through VPN connections. Then they'd host different aspects of the website's software stack (database, web server, etc...) using different providers, also routing all that traffic through VPN and the router/load balancer.
The idea was to "blend in" as much as possible so the hosting providers don't know they're hosing part of TPB. Which is made easier by all the traffic being encrypted by and routed through the VPN. And if they did get caught/shut down by one provider, all they had to do was update a file on the router/load balancer to point it to a replacement host using a different provider.
Then for that routing/load balancing bit they had multiple hot backups in various parts of the world that were set up to auto-switchover if the primary went down.
Also a Light-Switch-turned-Data-Kill-Switch they asked the Police to press after TPB got raided and they complied lol
Problem being, the only people who know how to do that... were running websites in 2004. You don't see distributed systems on owned hardware even being proposed these days, unless your email address has DOD or MIL in it somewhere. And colleges are teaching the CLOUUUUUUUD, not Big Iron.
A bit of a tangent and not related to hosting but I find it interesting how they all preach the cloud, yet anyone working in IT who has to keep privacy as their highest good does not go with the cloud. I noticed this at work.
No one likes the cloud, no one wants to go with a cloud solution to the point where esoteric software is preferred to the cloud software which might be better but is harder to justify. Kind of happy people are this based at work.
Why would a CS program teach web hosting? Or does CS mean something else besides Computer Science?
There is no "sysadmin" side of Computer Science. You'll want a MIS degree or something similar that is more of a vocational education than a scientific discipline.
Odd, all of my courses pushed distributed hosting, load balancing, cloud hosting, SaaS, HaaS, all of it. And that was a decade earlier.
For a site like the farms, a bulletin board system would work well and be run stupid cheap.
If by "really high" you mean ~500 simultaneous commenters, yes. Of all the dumbest things I've ever done, volunteering to run a gaming forum was the dumbest.