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/