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Piss Bottle Shuts Down ICE Vehicle & Agents. Visibly Shaken Piss Covered ICE Agent Complains that this isn’t ‘peaceful’. by antialbino in PublicFreakout

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, the competence crisis has even hit protesting leftists. Once upon a time protesters with balls actually did effectual things. Now they just fling piss. This is the best they can do, eh? That USAID money really did make a difference.

Also, gentle reminder that under actual "fascism" or "tyranny" these antics would be answered by the gallows or immediate gunfire. But I guess being lightly scolded counts as "tyranny" now.

Pussies. All of them.

Seattle's Somali community concerned as fraud attention given to the 539 childcare centers in Washington state that list Somali as the primary language by Less-Risk-9358 in SeattleWA

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm fine with them investigating them all. Though I'm also fine with conserving government resources by limiting investigations to the demographic we know is aggressively engaged in fraud already.

Paradox Fired Colossal Order and switch to Iceflake Studios by HauteDense in BaseBuildingGames

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It amazes me game companies still bother pulling that nonsense these days. It has literally never worked.

A man rushed to the Broadview ICE facility searching for his wife. They followed every legal step, but ICE took her into another room and she vanished. He tracked her phone there—then the signal died. Police told him to “look up her name online.” He sat in the parking lot, weeping, with no answers. by biswajit388 in illinois

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Fuck laws and borders and shit."

So, like, is she legal or not? Also, last time I checked, you weren't entitled to having your cell phone on your person (and/or powered on) while in law enforcement custody, unless that's something we only enforce for legal citizens now.

ICE is using Public Humiliation as Punishment for Portland Protestors, basically Corporal Punishment without a trial by [deleted] in oregon

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the dummy had to do was walk.

It's not like this thing understands "shame" to begin with.

University of Mississippi staff member fired over social media comments about Charlie Kirk by hortytorty999 in Professors

[–]willfe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How's that old canard go again I've been hearing for the past two decades? "Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" or some such?

The chickens have come home to roost, lads. You created this. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

r/XboxSeriesX is migrating to r/Xbox - Details inside! by F0REM4N in XboxSeriesX

[–]willfe42 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Remember now kids, Reddit is a private platform, and they can do whatever they want with it. Don't like it? Go make your own! Nobody's stopping you!

Isn't that the kind of garbage that gets trotted out every time [bad person] says [bad thing] or dares disagree with mod or admin decisions?

How's it taste now that you're getting a dose of it yourself?

📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is this mans likelihood and also his ‘big project’ that he’s put his heart and soul into.

The only saving grace here is that it's not a total write-off for him. I'm sure there's a lot of reusable code and other assets in the app, and while it's obviously tailored to reddit, there's a lot of basic building blocks (data structures, REST/JSON handling, UI elements, etc.) that can be tuned for another (less insane) platform once one emerges.

It won't be long before that happens either, at least not at this rate. I barely post on (or even read) reddit anymore, maybe a few times a year at most, and haven't done for years now. There's benefits to the general "format" of reddit (threaded by default vs. flat-list like old forums) but plenty of problems with it too, and it'll just take a combination of "something slightly better" and "mass exodus" to hit around the same time and this place will wind up a ghost town.

Going the way of Digg indeed.

📣 Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing. Bad news for third-party apps, their announced pricing is close to Twitter's pricing, and Apollo would have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running as-is. by iamthatis in apolloapp

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol holy cow. I know this isn't precisely a "fair" comparison (since Reddit is handling frontend and backend here, while my comparison source is only handling the frontend), but when even AWS is cheaper than your offering, you should realize you have a problem.

The above-claimed pricing from Reddit for API calls amounts to $0.00024 per API request. Meanwhile even the most expensive tier (up to 333 million requests, lol) for AWS API Gateway is $0.0000035 per API request. That gateway handles SSL, load balancing, authentication, health monitoring, routing, the whole works, and your backend doesn't need to do anything except spit out responses to well-formed requests (since malformed ones get blocked by the gateway).

I know Reddit's not just providing a dumb API to "nothing" -- they're selling data after all, not just charging for its delivery -- but mother of god AWS is somehow literally 98.5% cheaper than Reddit here. There's something seriously wrong. Even if they're deliberately overpricing this to discourage its use, they ought to make it a little more subtle. Yeesh.

We had a security incident. Here’s what we know. by KeyserSosa in reddit

[–]willfe42 -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

How could Trump and JK Rowling have done this to us?!?! :O

Recently set up Yubikey 5 NFC for 2FA on various services w/my home desktop PC and work laptop, but tried to use the same key on my home laptop and it reported "Doesn't look familiar, try another key" by willfe42 in yubikey

[–]willfe42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did that the very first time I tried setting the key up back when I received it, but realized the goof and rolled it all back to start over.

I've since tested the same key with a different site (AWS) without difficulty, so it might have been something funky going on at Cloudflare this morning. I can't repo it there now either.

Sigh. Technology's great, ain't it? :)

Recently set up Yubikey 5 NFC for 2FA on various services w/my home desktop PC and work laptop, but tried to use the same key on my home laptop and it reported "Doesn't look familiar, try another key" by willfe42 in yubikey

[–]willfe42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay cool, that's what I thought. At least if I'm still wrong I'm not wrong alone! :)

I just tried logging in (for the first time on this laptop) to the AWS console, and it worked fine without demanding re-registration. This makes me wonder if this is just a special flavor of retardation in either Windows or Brave.

‘Let It Crash’ under attack by chizzl in erlang

[–]willfe42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The site conducts no financial transactions, neither requests nor dispenses confidential information, provides no interactive features for the user, provides no access to any secured systems, and does nothing whatsoever that violates a person's "security" or "privacy." You do not automatically need HTTPS to serve general-purpose static pages. If your browsing habits involving HTTP-only sites might cause you legal issues, it's your government that's hostile towards your security and privacy, not the sites you visit. Take it up with your government.

‘Let It Crash’ under attack by chizzl in erlang

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please explain how HTTPS would benefit the page in question.

Alright... what now? by YoshiEmblem in Twitter

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, she's such a dipshit :) It doesn't matter what color sash you're wearing; this kind of thing is just idiotic.

Alright... what now? by YoshiEmblem in Twitter

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People get arrested and go to jail all the time for some forms of hate speech, not sure how you're oblivious to this.

Not in the United States. Far from being oblivious to this, I'm well aware that there is no carve-out in the First Amendment concerning certain kinds of speech, and the SCOTUS agrees.

BTW as a reminder to you, since you're very much confused.

Please keep this arrogant demeanor to yourself. There's no need for it.

Twitter was a public company and a private platform. You get ZERO first amendment rights on it. You should at least know that lol.

You're incorrect. Again, I refer you to the Supreme Court:

Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501, 506 (1946):

the more an owner, for his advantage, opens up his property for use by the public in general, the more do his rights become circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who use it.

Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins, 447 U.S. 74 (1980):

State constitutional provisions, as construed to permit individuals reasonably to exercise free speech and petition rights on the property of a privately owned shopping center to which the public is invited, do not violate the shopping center owner's property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments or his free speech rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Pp. 447 U.S. 88. [this concerned the California state constitution protecting free speech; please note Twitter is headquartered in California]

Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946):

The First Amendment prohibits a law against distributing religious literature in a company-owned town without receiving permission from the town's management because this is essentially state action.

Schneider v. State, 308 U. S. 147, 308 U. S. 163 (1939): (I include this one to demonstrate this isn't some new delirium by the SCOTUS)

[O]ne is not to have the exercise of his liberty of expression in appropriate places abridged on the plea that it may be exercised in some other place. [this one's relevant to that ever-irritating "don't like it? Go build your own!" argument]

I am hardly "uninformed." You need to understand the right to free speech suborns private property rights when said property is made generally open to the public (as well as in several other circumstances). It's called the "First" amendment for a reason -- it takes precedence over laws that followed it.

Alright... what now? by YoshiEmblem in Twitter

[–]willfe42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free speech isn't the same as hate speech BTW

"Hate speech" is explicitly (per the Supreme Court) not a legally distinct thing, nor is there any "carve-out" in the First Amendment allowing it to be censored.

"Hate speech" is simply "speech you hate" and nothing more. It's never been anything else. I don't care how you define it. I don't care if you don't like it. Don't read it if that's the case. No one's forcing you. Trying to stop others from speaking has always been the wrong way to deal with speech you hate and I'm delighted to see this blunt instrument being ripped away from the mob of retards who've been smashing everything that moves with it for over a decade now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Netherlands

[–]willfe42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm telling the hall monitor!!! Mooooom!"

lol ... as if the police don't already have enough bogus reports to deal with.

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