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Agent641@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Bro flew too close to the server rack

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Bro flew too close to the server rack

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Agent641@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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  • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
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    Actually don’t stay away from that IT Cabinet, the Jury was very likely to find you innocent.

    Fuck you MIT for supporting the prosecution!

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    I am unfamiliar with this historical event, care to explain?

    • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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      Tl; Dr:

      • Savant-genius in our time works on/with and drives a large amount of the early “Web 2.0” era that champions decentralization, openness, and freedom of information
      • This ethos is carried throughout his work in tech, leading him to mass copy databases that are paywalled or closed access to students, that he had permission to use, and dump the info online for free
      • JSTOR and MIT get salty about this, set up a sting at the school servers where he’s doing said mass copying
      • Prosecutor wayyyy overcharges Aaron and seeks to neuter him from using tech, Aaron gets scared and (due in part to a longstanding mental & physical illness) commits suicide

      There’s more info and context, but that the broad strokes. Fuck MIT for pushing his prosecution, JSTOR was fine once he stopped uploading their database

      • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world
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        There is actually speculation that he never intended to dump the files online for free. He was working on information research at the time.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

      • QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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        Damn this is fucked up

        • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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          Aaron Swartz Didn’t Kill Himself

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            I mean, I think we know he probably did, unfortunately.

            He believed he was facing a lifetime in prison.

            • Ignotum@lemmy.world
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              And the people pushing for that punishment were the ones that caused it, pushing someone into committing suicide is as good murder
              his blood is on their hands

            • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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              Sounds like something the D E E P S T A T E would say.

              • nieceandtows@programming.dev
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                Who is this Deeps Tate guy you’re talking about? I thought there were only two dipshits.

                • Agent641@lemmy.worldOP
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                  Deep State is older brother to Firefly actress Jewel Staite, and belligerent younger brother Islamic State.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.world
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        He was arrested for bulk downloading PDFs?

        • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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          he was arrested to make an example.

          • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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            In the same way that whistleblowing or “leaking” evidence of a crime is punished far more severely than any crime. It’s basically a death sentence.

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        that’s very fucked up

        i’d say to him to install a small computer or something (raspi?), leave it there and leak the pdfs slowly - would take weeks, maybe months

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          Unless you misplaced a decimal point somewhere and we’re pretty sure they’re gonna notice 80,000 PDFs copied! D:

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        I don’t see any relevance to time machines

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          You’d need a time machine in order to go back in time to warn a presently deceased person about certain events before they happen. I don’t see how you needed someone to explain this to you.

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            I thought these two exchanges were references to something, film scenes, maybe

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          You don’t see how someone with a time machine can go back in time (with aforementioned time machine) and warn Aaron Swartz to stay away from the cabinet?

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            I didn’t know this was saying that. I thought they were film references or something. “Here’s what girls do in time travel films, here’s what guys do.”

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      If I remember correctly it relates to the death of the other reddit founder. The not spithead one.

      • ratman150@sh.itjust.works
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        Ah…sad

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      There is a documentary about him. Be ready to get punched right in the feels.

      https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ

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    Girls bad

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      IT nerd boys good

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    Let this garbage shitty template die already.

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