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mircea_popescu: in other sads,
fetlife profile now getting >100 pieces of mail a day. da fuck am i gonna do, assign slave to manage it ?
mircea_popescu: but... it's been around for years. it broke the cables story. it broke the
fetlife lists. it...
mircea_popescu still chuckles at the "indignant community" back when
fetlife turned out to be a shithole.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ok, but the devil is in the details! my
fetlife/okcupid/collarspace/etc lulz don't read like "six years ago, disgusted witgh the process" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, looking forward to more "{Security researchers|IT specialists|Computer experts} with {University of Derp in Derpistan|USG.RedHat.Whatever|The HTTPS Internet} published {Literotica|
Fetlife|OkCupid|Ask.fm|Phuctor|whatever} {database|userlist|secret excel codebase} publicly! We don't have a copy because we don't believe in things, we prefer names."
mircea_popescu: which is ~50k different phonemes, the vast majority of which are bona fide words but filtering any further exceeds my patience (and if you're curious why it stops there - once the
fetlife lists hit, there's a pile of crapolade in the form of usernames that are difficult to distinguish etc). i'm happy with the estimation that "50k or maybe a little more". which would mean that... whoa!
mircea_popescu: kinda reminds me of
fetlife going on a rampage deleting profiles of random chicks that had friended me.
mircea_popescu: but did you even get banned from
fetlife irl or something ?
mircea_popescu: oh right right, i guess im ruined in
fetlife (bdsm ?) because they banned some random people just in case we were connected. lolk.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im half-amused that the "mainstream media" fails to connect the
fetlife story to the ashley madison story.
mircea_popescu: then they spend weeks penning diatribes on
fetlife/wherever derping about who "violated" whose trust
mircea_popescu: got practically some indonesians or somesuch. not even counting the significant costs to the helpers - the british empire ended up dismantled as a result, in a manner very much reminiscent of the "
fetlife dmca's mp, and as a result some random dc in the us pays for mp's yacht".
mircea_popescu: but the
fetlife thing, for instance, is certainly intended as a standard.
mircea_popescu: mp does
fetlife, weev does aff. i guess i lose out huh.
mircea_popescu: "We were a small company," he said. "It's not like we had millions of dollars to fight this and tons of employees." << yeah, the
fetlife style. "we suck, but that's ok because we are small". herpy-derp, stick to twitter.
mircea_popescu:
fetlife is hiring, vice is hiring, erryone's hiring. we might even make the gdp go up
mircea_popescu:
fetlife bitterly discovered same recently. was kinda fun to watch.
mircea_popescu: (btw...
fetlife scraping still ongoing. they "fixed" so many things meanwhile...)
mircea_popescu: damn this entire
fetlife fraudulent dmca business has been one of the best things. i really love these new servers i got.
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture of these asinine imbeciles, from altman to
fetlife to automattic to you name it.
mircea_popescu: soooo... since i was looking at the
fetlife stuff, i discovered the scrapper had stopped working
mircea_popescu: "a total of 15,495 accounts were identified as having premium
FetLife memberships” and that “Male doms make up far and away the largest proportion of
FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28%) of the total customer accounts identified."
mircea_popescu: kinda how the
fetlife derps got all twisted about "rape". omagawd our consent was violated by other people using words without asking for permission!!1
mircea_popescu: ascii_field hopefully i get the
fetlife femmes pissy enough to combust.
mircea_popescu inspects list.
fetlife check, alf check, mike check, who am i going to bother and disturb next ?
mircea_popescu: there's a very substantial "hay fire" effect. look at the
fetlife derps : they got REALLYVERYANGRY!!11 for five minutes. once they couldn't do anything in that interval... well ok, it's no longer a thing now.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski i used to think so myself, but then i read on
fetlife i'm really spurned by teh ladies, and so...
mircea_popescu: anyway, the differences between me and justusranvier dude are amusing.
fetlife vs okcupid, the locus of butthurt, etc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's a wider point here btw : the internet has been slowly evolving towards immutability. this trend is visible high and low - curtis yarvin's attempt to "remake bitcoin in his own yard" did not miss this point, the general response of the
fetlife cattle to the meatlist is a very sound "internet is immutable", the wind is there.
mircea_popescu: not bad, not bad. conference last week,
fetlife this week...
mircea_popescu: basically...
fetlife is the size of my 3rd degree social circle.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "This guy is a rich bored misogynistic scumbag looking to stir shit up. This is CEO-level Trolling. What he's doing is technically legal, and even if it weren't, he has the money to keep it tied up in courts forever if not win outright. Unfortunately the worldwide legal system is run on money rather than justice, and
Fetlife HAS tried to take appropriate legal action against him to no avail. This is yet anoth
mircea_popescu: dude this shit is epic.
fetlife essentially exists as a sort of liverjournal, it comes out.
mircea_popescu: "I read your update ... I understand how it makes you feel and I understand your concerns ... I am not saying he didn't do anything wrong and I think he is the ultimate douchebag mixed with disrespectful on so many levels ... but
fetlife has been filled with writings about that list. And having someone's screenname is not exactly going to make it easy to find them in most cities ... so he is actually getting exactly th
mircea_popescu: ahahaha turns out
fetlife has a group dedicated to me nao.
mircea_popescu: "I’m not going to make this about the so-called hacker who is responsible for the list, claiming he did it to prove a point about the safety of
Fetlife’s members. Attention is what the douchebag wants and I refuse to give it to him. Now, did he breach
Fetlife as he’s claimed? Of course not. That takes a skill he lacks."
mircea_popescu: some dude claiming to be "from
fetlife" made a proper dmca notification, which i counter-notified
mircea_popescu: aite. so basically, i saw something, said something.
fetlife misjudged itself, and sent a spurious "trademark infringement" claim to the dc.
mircea_popescu: and i guess ima hammer the shit out of
fetlife now, anyway.
mircea_popescu: notice the recent lulzy failure of
fetlife to "throw its weight around".
mircea_popescu: what,
fetlife will order my content off my blog ? what's your scenario here ?
mircea_popescu: they claimed that it's not properly drawn up. meanwhile i discovered that the dc in question (worth ~1.7mn) is actually owned by the same holding company that owns ccbill, which is a "high risk" cc payment processor, which has a business relationship with
fetlife.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unrelatedly, can you imagine that
fetlife rebelled, and banned my... acount. but not the ip. i'm still in shock over the fact.
mircea_popescu: god damned it they have decided
fetlife is not to be searched. how dares anyone change this, and how dare they be someone specific!
mircea_popescu: by the way, if ne1 here has a
fetlife account, i finally moved over, drop me a line.