Dropsafe

Previously… So this is an ongoing story, but this is apparently happening to Parler: There is lots of this stuff on Twitter – too much to include, but I will add a few links – and the dust is still settling, but the first version of the story is that: as a consequence of bad…

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3g-7yAf3S/?igshid=1ddb17vt1f0yc

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All of that security theatre regarding social-security numbers and other personal information, and yet they would not spring any money for Okta…

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Oops. Stripe asks users to agree that they won’t accept payments for “high risk” activities, including for any business or organization that “engages in, encourages, promotes or celebrates unlawful violence or physical harm to persons or property,” according to its website. https://www.wsj.com/articles/stripe-stops-processing-payments-for-trump-campaign-website-11610319116 Mike Masnick on point:

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So: I am thinking of upgrading this blog- and DMZ-attached server to something a little more powerful, viz: perhaps an 8Gb Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu; but – since I am a former Enterprise Computing wonk – I would like to upgrade it to something that would help me worry a little less. What I…

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Quoth Banks: This is the Ballast-Mound, the World-Hill, Prentice,” she said, and I could just make out her small thin smile by the light of the gibbous moon. “When the ships came here, from all over the world, for whatever it was they were shipping from here at the time, they would sometimes arrive unladen,…

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This was a brief ride; via random Instagram, I stumbled onto this tweextaposition: …and I thought, vaguely, “is Pam’s quote really a Nietzsche quote? It doesn’t quite sound portentous enough…” So I googled around, found an indefinite number of “Nietzsche” motivational graphics bearing the quote, and found this whipsaw blogpost which goes to great lengths…

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Unrolled:

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