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Open-source shilling software would be interesting (and hilarious in a dark way). But most every day people don't have the resources to pay for marketing & ser
by hellbanner 10y ago
Open-source shilling software would be interesting (and hilarious in a dark way).
But most every day people don't have the resources to pay for marketing & servers to run massive operations.
- samstave 10y agoAre you familiar with this: https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=289655 https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?viewemailid=289655
- hellbanner 10y agoNo, what exactly am I looking at ?
- samstave 10y agoReddit founder trying to sell social manipulation services to the government
- hellbanner 10y agoOh, that's amazing.
- xyzzy123 10y agoI agree; but the value in these tools is very transient based on cat-and-mouse. For precisely this reason they become useless when open-sourced. And on the other hand it's not like they're great works of art. They're weekend hacks driving a rest API or phantomjs. Most of the "art" is threading or concurrency and getting it all to go over a 4K line "free proxy" list without falling over too badly. Want 10k Twitter accounts? It's not magic. It's just some dumb scripts and a bit of patience. You don't need massive server power (a $5 droplet will do fine) but you do have to have a bunch of time to waste.
- chatmasta 10y agoyoutube-dl faces the same cat-and-mouse problem, but has sufficiently frequent commits to keep up with any changes.