People constantly underestimate how smart Trump really is though.

Leave it to Trump to find a way to sue them LOL.

Most people don't like Trump because he doesn't conform to the mold (stereotype).

Curiously enough those that don't tolerate the way he is are the same that preach diversity, tolerance and so on.

That's exactly why I like him though.

Same here

Stereotypes are completely overrated anyway.

You can basically just call them Democrats @WaffleWaffle

or as some say extreme leftists.

We can ask @RobertGrulerEsq if he'd do a piece on how big telephone was split and if the same process might apply to big tech.

Great idea

I don't believe in labelling hahahahaha

Me neither, nor do I pretend to go along with this identity crisis pandemic LOL

@Raven Evermore, you just advanced to level 4!

I know it's a little insulting, but I refer to them as "woke jokes"

Hahahaha cool.

I would argue that it would not be similar at all. There's a massive divide between administration and maintenance over 10s of thousands of copper wires, and the communications that take place among the 10s of millions of copper and fiber wires.

Not to mention the fact that it's a fairly trivial pursuit to retain control over a wide network of individual corporations.

At the end of the day, if you "break up" alphabet, for example, what you'll end up with is an even more difficult litigious landscape.

The day you wake up and decide puberty blockers are a good idea for 9 year old kids is when you're a complete joke :/

@jfindley It's even more trivial to censor 7 million people.

Just change copper wire to fiber optics and is the same ole.

That's not (only) what alphabet does, though...

I'd say that's the day you go to the looney bin but I am inclusive as hell.

Agreed

I guess I am too lol

Agreed. But you can find a parallel for search engine, facebook, etc.

I'm tolerant but not so tolerant that I'd agree to give a kid puberty blockers.

I think if you split those corporations up, you're just going to make it harder to control them. I also maintain that the government should not be trying to control them, but, rather, We The People should let them starve to death as we move on to better things that the government also doesn't control.

We are missing a kids bill of rights. Our founding fathers biggest blunder was to think future parents would love their children as much as their contemporaries did.

Exactly why they should be split, they can't control us and the government can't control them. I don't need to control everything. Just give me a way to report a crime if I see one.

You are telling me that it'd be hard to control 5 little googles but we can coordinate a jazillion contrarian americans into quitting their beloved social media? Good luck my friend.

@WaffleWaffle Yes I fully agree on rights to protect our children and certain rights they have.

What we could do though is tell friends, and donate to other sites such as Parler so they can build up their platform. Word of mouth does wonders my friend.

What about sending email ballots via Amazon instead of the silly US Mail?

A lot of people have already moved to Parler actually.

Now, if you want to talk about breaking up an organization... Amazon has a massive stake in a huge percentage of all the corporations in the US, and a lot of those abroad, as well...

Yeah I will be 70 before word of mouth and donations build the next Twitter. They will just come with some marketing campaign tho scare people away from Parler.

The funny thing is that Politifact had to apologize to Candace Owens for labeling her. She lawyered up. She said "Biden is not my president." So they had to admit they were wrong. They won.

Wednesday, the 25th, they took out about 1/4 of web traffic in the US because of a bug in their thread management in a secondary service they use for analysis, called Kinesis.

@jfindley, you just advanced to level 4!

But amazon sells all kinds of books without any censorship that I know of.

Now that's power...

https://aws.amazon.com/message/11201/

That might not be true @WaffleWaffle , we don't know that much about Parler but we do know their main objective is to allow freedom of speech and let the majority of people on Parler decide i.e, We The People.

That's not entirely accurate. I can tell you that left-wing echo chamber (LFEC) does a very effective job of highlighting all of Trump's shortcomings and rarely acknowledges his accomplishments. The RWEC does just the opposite - highlighting his accomplishments (or helping to show questionable things in the best possible light) and ignores his shortcomings. So, as inexplicable the vitriol on the left towards Trump is to those on the right, the left is just as baffled as to why conservatives are so enthusiastic. The truth is always somewhere in the middle, which is why I refuse to get sucked back into either echo chamber.

Thanks . AWS is amazing.

What do you know about AWS? 🙂

However they are not as dominant as Google or FB

I am working on getting AWS certification.

Which cert?

If you go to their site and make an account the first thing they talk about is freedom of speech. So I'd argue that they might actually be more on the conservative side of the aisle.

Amazon web services

Or that's what they say it is. Just like Google's motto is "Never be evil". 😏

The cloud computing service platform

https://www.parkmycloud.com/blog/aws-vs-azure-vs-google-cloud-market-share/

People have been using that crap for 15 years

Even if it is temporary what will Twitter do with no users, and certainly by the time Parler becomes as good as Twitter or Facebook there will be more platforms.

high speed I loved it when I used it used it extensively

Which AWS cert are you looking at?

Cloud practitioner to start with.

@WaffleWaffle, you just advanced to level 9!

I wouldn't be surprised if this was the kick in the ass that was needed for techs stuck in lockdown to build a platform.

That's a pretty simple one to obtain. I got the DevOps Professional cert at RE:Invent last year in Vegas. Probably the hardest test I've ever taken in my life.

FB oculus. Just where FB wants you: Blind and deaf to everything except their content and with your hands busy. It's right there in their advertising.

It gets much much better than that, friend.

http://cml.harvard.edu/assets/Nanowire-probes-could-drive-high-resolution-brain-machine-interfaces.pdf

Thanks for the encouragement hahahaha

Yeah some day those VR headsets will be installed at birth and shock you if you try to take them off, or fry your brain.

The practitioner exam is pretty much just being able to regurgitate all the descriptions for their various services. If you just click through all the offerings and read the docs, you'll ace it.

I hope so! Thanks for the tip 🙂

I deleted my Facebook account. It was already inactive. After I heard they were censoring people though, I couldn't help myself.... I just went on to delete it.

I then decided to say what parler was all about as I was becoming a little more political lol.

see*

I created an acount on social pressure. Went in, read through the gossip and 15 minutes later I had deleted my account. That was 10 years ago.

Hahaha

@Raven Evermore, you just advanced to level 5!

I create an FB account in order to run for Mayor. So far 2/8 Councilmen have blocked me, and the Mayor has yet to accept my request 🙂

I'm "friends" with his wife, though.

I'm too old to remember the first time I was on Facebook, but I stopped using it years ago.

How long did it take you to get there?

Get the spouses. That's the right path.

@jfindley Republican? What city if you don't mind me asking?

I'd been working with AWS for about 8 years before I took that test.

🤯

Pasadena, Texas. I am a registered Republican and vote in the primaries, and also tried to bail the TX Republican Convention out when the whole "voting system" turned out to be a farce, but these days I'm pretty disappointed in all parties and politicians.

You're old enough to grow cynical

Understandable. That's awesome though.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/radicaldev/

There should be a social network called JADED for the awaken.

I think they call that 4chan...

Agree 💯

any advice for anyone who wants to learn cloud? I've only just started taking an interest in comp sci a few months ago with some introductory Java classes.

Oooooh no! Now the whole "intelligence" community will open an account here.

Probably. What do you want to do?

Not really sure at this point, still exploring different avenues, I've only recently covered things like concurrency, using SQL via Java and some basics of Android Studio.

Get some free courses from opensap.com on cloud computing concepts the European way. Then dive into the tech stuff.

Then they can cry about how oppressed their little woke joke lives are. Psh.

If anyone is oppressed right now... it's Republicans sadly.... 😂

Or not

Do you like the idea of bulk communication for political purposes, in a non-annoying way?

Poor Donald J is not liked in either camp TBH

That's why I like him.

can you elaborate on what you mean by bulk communication?