Can anyone verify the legitimacy of this? It appears to indicate multiple Gab accounts were compromised to post the message in the video, including the official account and that of the CEO:
So that’s looking like a “yes, that really happened”. Quite amazing if this is a week and a half after first learning of the breach. This is why taking any incident like this seriously and applying urgency is so important, it’s not a time for playing politics.
After about a decade and a half of faithful use, my Logitech Z-5500 has finally quit on me. So, what next? I don’t need 5 channels, it’s just for use at the PC, but I want something top-notch as it’s gonna get used a heap. Suggestions?
A really common response here is “studio monitors with an audio interface”. Loads of options here, anyone got recommendations for the audio interface? Seen a few suggestions for Schiit, anything in particular from them?
Getting sucked further and further down this rabbit hole; if I went with something like a @Genelec 8010A paired with a 740A sub, I'd need an XLR amp, right? And which one could take a line out or USB from the PC and provide volume control and headphone jack? Confused 🤷♂️
This came a couple of days after their post about an "alleged data breach" which is full of pretty bizarre statements: news.gab.com/2021/02/26/all…
For example, because they couldn't find any public discussion about the breach they assumed that @WIRED reporters were "essentially assisting the hacker in his efforts to smear our business". There are *always* discussions held in private about a breach before it's made public.
Next prediction whilst I’m on a bit of a roll: if Gab becomes the platform the existing violent content on Parler migrates to (and arguably there’s a lot of that there already), the odds of it remaining easily accessible to the masses will be short
Just signed up to Gab to take a look around, took several minutes for each page to load during registration so looks like they're getting absolutely hammered right now
And they're down. Also just realised they're behind Cloudflare who've previously terminated services such as Daily Stormer and 8chan. Life gets real hard when that protection is removed regardless of how much of the origin services you have complete control over.
I give it 50:50 odds that by the time I wake up tomorrow, Amazon has either pulled the pin on Parler “Google-style” or given them a similar ultimatum to Apple. Given what we’ve seen today (and what I saw spending some time on the platform), it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Ok, so it was about 6 hours *after* I woke up, but I was pretty close 🙂
Politics aside, this creates a really interesting engineering challenge; Parler has had sudden and rapid growth and one would assume have huge infrastructure needs and volumes of data. How do you move that over in less than 30 hours? And to where that would accept them?