Yeah, a bunch of us here on Slashdot moved much of the conversation to Twitter. Unfortunately, Trump seems to get a bunch of the bandwidth there too.

I'm not stupid, I'm just poor.

The data is what has value. If people create services that access their data for profit they will need to pay fees.

That's just a generic response from the CMS when it's set to down for maintenance.

In late 2018 Jason Scott from textfiles.com made a total backup (nearly 800 gigs) of the site and the site owner responded back with "So can I delete it not".

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Ftextfiles%2Fstatus%2F1029021450978643968

It has been expected for years now so it's no surprise it finally happened.

Exactly. Even if you don't like Hogan or Thiel, the funding of legitimate lawsuits is hardly unethical.
If he was bombing them with nuisance suits for death by a thousand cuts it would be different.
But Gawker was in the wrong. Allowing those who have grievances with them to proceed freely does absolutely nothing to limit "freedom of the press".

And you read the Slashdot comments with no moderation?

The same people that will get up in arms about their "freedom of speech" to show up and call someone faggot/nigger/etc will also get up in arms about other people's freedom to ignore them.

If you show up at someone's house and shit on their rug, they're not infringing on your freedom if they start locking the door.

I had a Beaglebone Black before, but the Pi3 is my first Pi and I love it. Makes a great server for Octoprint, and will likely monitor my terrarium environment shortly :)

I have nothing on my computer that I'd need to hide. Well, I'm sure that there's probably some way that they would find to prosecute me or anyone else given enough personal data and the breadth of the criminal code.
And that's why warrants with scope should always be used for such searches.

But, with or without a warrant, I'm not handing over my password.

I prefer "a fraternity of douchebags" for use as a descriptor :)

A year or two ago there was a fellow that made the news for doing the same thing to phone scammers. He set up a premium number and would redirect them to that.

You can build a "budget" gaming rig these days for $550, which will play most games except the very latest at high/ultra quality settings.
And shops like NCIX will send one already built and tested to your door and save you the headache of picking it out yourself.
So for the price of a console you get a rig with the potential to upgrade a couple of parts before you get around to replacing it.

Totally understood. The trick is: you can tune your own signal/noise. Its very handy and I get essentially all my news via Twitter these days.

Its all on Twitter man...

Or, you know, sensible gun legislation could be in place like in Canada, the UK, Japan, Scandanavian countries, France, etc. and mass shootings would be aberrations instead of weekly occurrences.

But hey, don't let reality get in the way of the Die Hard fantasy.