nicmccool

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   by nicmccool 5y ago

   I'd gone down the rabbithole the last few days of whether to use kivy or beeware for a personal powerlifting app I'm building as side project / learning experience. I'd gone as far as settling on Kivy and installing the
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   by nicmccool 6y ago

   Youtube has paid staff whose sole duty is to remove videos that violate their TOS. Parler does not. That is the distinction AWS used in there reasonings to terminate service.
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   by nicmccool 6y ago

   That is the point though. The reasons cited by AWS for their actions were due to violent posts and content moderation. When addressed with the issue Parler said they'd use volunteers to proactively moderate violent posts, but AWS sai
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   by nicmccool 6y ago

   I'm sure they could differentiate the hug of death due to sudden popularity vs the continued onslaught of scripted bots just by frequency of requests, right? As in, single IP frequency of pings measured out across a batch of addresses.
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   by nicmccool 6y ago

   In a way this is a relief to hear. I keep reading up on the excess productivity of others, while I'm pulling my hair out trying to manage normal work and my kids when on paper nothing much has changed given that I was WFH before this.