* Posts by professore

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John McAfee dead: Antivirus tycoon killed himself in prison after court OK'd extradition, says lawyer

professore

Which is more likely?

"Now, thanks to that, people are convinced McAfee was killed by Uncle Sam. It's claimed he had dirt on the Clintons, which is music to the ears of QAnon supporters. But what's more likely? The US government, having exactly what it wanted – the chance to drag McAfee back home to make a literal prime-time example of him – decided instead to end him in a Barcelona cooler.

Or that a 75-year-old McAfee was done running. Which is more likely?"

In the crazy upside down world we currently live in, who the hell knows?

How do we combat mass global misinformation? How about making the internet a little harder to use

professore

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

The problem with a "curated" search engine is who will monitor the curators?

For example, Facebook removed the official page of the Great Barrington Declaration, who, regardless of what you might think of them or their theories, are led by a group of very distinguished scientists. Another example is it is now forbidden to suggest that COVID 19 might have been lab engineered and accidentally escaped. That is a perfectly valid hypothesis with a lot of circumstantial evidence. It may turn out that it isn't the case, but it certainly isn't outside the realm of possibility at all.

Amazon web services back up and running

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EBS Outage

Yes, I agree with James 100. I think there is more to this than meets the eye, some ass covering involved. I have a client who I have spent considerable time and effort setting up EBS images for. Now they are all screwed up. This is not good enough.