No, the creator of cURL didn't morph into Elon Musk and give away Bitcoins. But his hijacked Twitter page tried to The creator of cURL reassured The Reg on Tuesday that he's not a billionaire rocket man giving away Bitcoins, no matter what his Twitter account claimed. Daniel Stenberg, who maintains the widely used Swiss army-knife of network data transfer tools, had his verified Twitter account hijacked by person or persons unknown, its …
It exists so people can create fictional anecdotes to trigger outrage and then wallow in an echo chamber of similarly outraged people. And also so people can pointlessly whinge eternally about anything, usually governments.
It also exists so people can get into “discussions “ and then cowardly block people when it doesn’t go their way. They can then return to their echo chamber and have their false beliefs reinforced.
It’s a cess pit, but a less noxious cess pit than faecebook.
> I forgot the billion times recycled memes and gifs of actors pulling faces that have no relevance to the conversation.
This. A million fucking times this.
It's as though Demon Crowley has decided that HTML isn't bloat enough on a web page so introduced these 'reactions'. Aaaarggh! *
[*] Writes the person including a gratuitous, bandwidth-wasting icon, but that's because what I have to say is much cleverer and much more important than the average tweet.
If you live in a country where there is censored, approved official mainstream media outlets, you haven't access to twitter.
>the morons that voted for them...
>Both will be gone soon
Wow.
You're talking about the elimination of over 70 million people.
The last time a member* of a self-anointed, self-appointed elite expunged democracy and created a _proper_ country, the best he could manage was about 6 million.
How far we've come! O brave new world!
* He established his elitism via various virtue-display/virtue-parading techniques, notably being vegan and a militant animal rights activist, as well as just being, you know, innately _superior_. But utterly inclusive : you too could become superior just by joining in.
And he created, magnificently, what is to date still the only example of a successful socialist country. Granted, it relied on a growing number of growingly adjacent countries donating large amounts of various resources, ranging from minerals to factories/mfgplant to farmland to many millions of involuntary/slave labour.
But it worked _brilliantly_ for the elite!
It's not hard to figure out that Daniel lives in Stockholm.
If I wanted to do this, I'd get a free trial account with any provider of VPNs that has endpoints in the area where the mark lives. Or even just an AWS EC2 instance hosted in Stockholm would probably work. Or a previously compromised random PC that is in the right area.
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Its even better to have a zombie machine of a home computer/scan for proxies on home isp netwoprks to bounce through so you get an ISP AS for when certain services block VPN/Data centre ip's. A home ISP looks much more legit and the IP address gets a better risk rating and less likely to throw up extra checks.
No surprise they tried a local IP address. Its common sense.
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