Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support

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[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (17 children)

I didn't think they'd sue, but they did; I hope they win! Big tech is literally a cartel crushing any and all competition, and it has to stop.

I pessimistically assume it'll go nowhere, however, because Amazon is rich, and money is all you need to win a court battle these days.

[–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (16 children)

parler does not need an app, an html page is just as effective. fk amazon. forget suing amazon.

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Amazon is what hosted the HTML page, and the app probably just displays an HTML page.

[–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

i stand corrected, i was listening to them on a news channel where parler says that they cant even find a hosting company that will host them.. so i dont get it why they dont just use their own server or servers and host their own stuff? i understand that saidit uses some hosting service also, but i cant imagine running any kind of serious website and not just putting it on my own linux box and paying for my own static ip..

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    [–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

    amazon does not have a monopoly on ddos, do they? large companies like to convince their customers that only they can solve your problems.

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      [–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

      i am an old school programmer.. i have been coding for almost forty years.. i think that i could effectively stop ANY ddos attack.. i wouldnt need that cloudflare scam crap either.. just give me a super thin linux box and a gcc compiler and a nice router to weed out the ddos attack attempts.. and poof, they would be evaporated and disabled in just a few requests..

      then, after you have been authorized as a legitimate request attempt, attach a special cookie to your browser and redirect you to the second router which only accepts requests from callers that have a proper cookie in their possession.

      people that resort to bullshit like that cloudflare crap havent got a chance in hell.

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        [–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

        off the top of my head, i would create a custom captcha system on the primary router, but i would definitely not used that crap captcha stuff that is all over the web where you have to click on all bicycles or boats or airplanes, etc, omg.

        a basic yet effective captcha could be something as simple as this:

        it is now six hours before midnight, what time will it be in fifteen minutes? [] 6:10pm [] 8:30am [] 6:15pm

        mary has four dogs. does mary have more than five dogs? []yes []no

        i dont know, that is just off the top of my head.. but it shouldnt be that difficult to come up with a captcha system that would be simple for a user to pass thru, but would be very difficult to automate and impossible for a bot to break.

        the captcha system should be something that you implement in-house that is a part of your website system, and not something that you have to pay for from an external company.

        cookies can come in a few different forms, for all practical purposes..

        1) industry standard cookies that are held by a browser and passed back and forth between the browser and the server.

        2) as a variable that can be passed from browser to server for the duration of the browsing session.. these can be passed as either a POST or GET variable.

        btw, i learned to write sockets code in C language by reading beej's guide to network programming.. it is much more pleasant to write such things on a linux box, btw..

        https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/html/

        [–]mrwizardd 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

        why does parler need an app? as an experienced web developer/programmer, i know that you can do just as much using an html webpage..

        i personally find parler to be difficult to use.. why when i load parler.com does it go thru that weird loadup initialization stage where it shows that animated "P" logo? load the page and do it quick, omg.

        i find it difficult to use parler, period.

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

        A different app for every website is annoying, especially when they're often worse.

        [–]mrwizardd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

        i think that you can do just about any thing using html5.

        also, it has always been my opinion as an experienced web developer that developers tend to go overboard with css and javascript and other kinds of bloat when they could just write their pages using a more basic forms of html that are valid on pretty much ALL browsers.. which would mean that their pages would load faster..

        it does take time to download html, which means that javascript and other css and fluff takes time to download and it takes time to process and render it which makes your webpage load slower.

        btw, now that i bring up javascript, there was a reference page that i used to enjoy looking up javascript stuff, https://irt.org/script/script.htm

        http://irt.org

        i used to write my webpages on linux in c language which would get executed as a cgi, tho this is almost never done any more...

        i once wrote a custom webserver in C language that also produced the html of my website, you cant get any faster than that.. a tight custom web server that is also the executable that produces your webpage.

        i am considering writing a new style social media app.

        [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

        i am considering writing a new style social media app

        I don't know if you've seen the idea I had about that, since decentralization is a hot topic these days I was thinking a throwback to using a BBS/FIDONET like system but with mobile devices and an interface not from the 90s would be pretty awesome.

        [–]mrwizardd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        if you really think that you have a workable idea for a new social media portal, i would strongly suggest that you not discuss the details of it with anyone, period... the nature of man, especially men in the digital world, are thieves and liars, they will steal your idea and bring it to market before you can blink twice.

        i actually have an idea that would bring swarms of good people from all of the major platforms, but i dont know if i have the energy or the time to put it together.

        web development doesnt happen in two weeks.

        [–]mrwizardd 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        i have been thinking a bit about your idea... about it being a "throwback", meaning that you would bring back some variation of the past... nah.. not likely gonna work.. things that are new and big are fresh and new and spontaneous..

        just fyi, the idea that i have is precisely that, it is new... it is spontaneous.. but again, i dont think that i have the energy or the time to develop it..

        i could do it if i had a half dozen competent developers to do my grunt work.. but i dont..

        oh well..

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          [–]mrwizardd 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

          ok, this crap spam link should be deleted.. it redirects to: https://www.signup-for-online-work.com/?id=572

          reported as spam