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Christine's Pickles said:
The letter was sent to someone else and Chris asked the recipient to relay the contents to Null. Whoever received this was in the US, but they (or someone they know) would have digitized it and sent it to Null after the fact.

Also, the sender info on the letter... "Chris Chan Sonichu, c/o CVRJ"... :autistic:
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I thought Null may have come back to the States but I wasn't going to bank on it. Sorry if I come across as a sperg. I am not as familiar with the inner politics of KF as others.
 
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Christine's Pickles said:
He will probably never go for this. Anything that compromises the "free speech" ideal of KF (well, "free speech" as long as you don't @ him in chat on the wrong day, laugh at his chimpouts, be British, give him a "mad on the internet" rating, ...) is likely off the table.


This I actually could see. If Null could find someone who he trusts, who he isn't going to get pissed at/isn't going to piss off in a matter of weeks, and has enough likability/trustworthiness that both Null and the disputing party can expect this person to carry out mediation/arbitration without problematic behavior (i.e. sperging out at them, leaking discussions/proceedings on KF or splinter sites, etc.), it just might work. This, of course, will require a healthy dose of :optimistic:.

It would most likely go sideways the first time, and then the whole idea would wither on the vine like so many before it, though.
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Null is going to have to compromise and it's better that he does so sooner than later. Yes he has won legally but that's because the persons that he won against represented themselves (which even Nick Rekieta or any lawyer will tell you thus is the worst option you could choose) while the other person probably had an attorney who was a generalist and just wasn't familiar in this area of law. In other words, it's not his legal skills that got him off, it was the fact that he lucked out. And that's the problem. Null has gotten a false sense of security from this. If Melinda has filed six suits against KF, I wouldn't put it past her to consider initiating a class action suit against KF with a good attorney.
 
who cares

Christine's Pickles said:
He claimed somewhere that he spends $5,000 every time he has to file anything in response to this bullshit, but there are a lot of T&H users on that site, so maybe it doesn't hurt as much. Good point.
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Remove one or perhaps two zeros from that

Sailfish said:
Null is going to have to compromise and it's better that he does so sooner than later. Yes he has won legally but that's because the persons that he won against represented themselves (which even Nick Rekieta or any lawyer will tell you thus is the worst option you could choose) while the other person probably had an attorney who was a generalist and just wasn't familiar in this area of law. In other words, it's not his legal skills that got him off, it was the fact that he lucked out. And that's the problem. Null has gotten a false sense of security from this. If Melinda has filed six suits against KF, I wouldn't put it past her to consider initiating a class action suit against KF with a good attorney.
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When narcissistic criminals choose to represent themselves the trial end up being hilarious, I'd pay so much money to see some of those.
 
Sailfish said:
I thought Null may have come back to the States but I wasn't going to bank on it. Sorry if I come across as a sperg. I am not as familiar with the inner politics of KF as others.
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You are not wrong @Sailfish a lot of people suspect Josh spends time in the States or is in New York. He changed his legal name in New York to James Gabriel Potter and he has said he likes to be near his hosting (and 1776 was at one stage in New York). Also he said he was retraining using free college in New York.

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Dagit said:
You are not wrong @Sailfish a lot of people suspect Josh spends time in the States or is in New York. He changed his legal name in New York to James Gabriel Potter and he has said he likes to be near his hosting (and 1776 was at one stage in New York). Also he said he was retraining using free college in New York.

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Vex, is that you man?
 
Josh acts like getting an autonomous system number (ASN) is the key to him getting to "sit at the table" as he said in his KF post "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (archive), which itself is a reference to a blog post on his MATI page (archive). However, that doesn't mean that his hosting is really good (it's not - look at www.sonichu.com and how shitty that site runs, especially when KF is getting "DDoSed"), or even that it's immune from being removed from the Internet.

In technical terms, all autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet are linked using border gateway protocol (BGP). Hurricane Electric maintains a website that you can use to determine an ASN for an AS based on its name or any of its IP addresses, as well as other systems that link to that AS. 1776 Solutions, LLC (parent company of 1776 Hosting) has the ASN "AS397702". Here (archive) is the BGP routing rundown for AS397702. Look at IPv4 peers. There is one listed: VegasNAP, LLC (AS53340). If you go under the "Peers v4" tab, that will be the only AS listed there as well. That means that 1776 Hosting has one single point of failure. If VegasNAP is somehow forced to depeer from 1776, then it's gone from the Internet until Josh finds a new peer, as no traffic will be able to go to or from that AS. On the other hand, VegasNAP peers with a lot of different networks as well as some big Internet backbones, as can be seen here (archive).

If Josh really wanted a more robust solution, he would strike up agreements with other networks with their own ASes, but it's Josh and he has terrible people skills, plus many of those are expensive and/or probably won't do business with a network with KF on it. This is before we even broach the topic of Josh's incompetence as a system/network administrator.
 
From Josh's article: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-28/where-sidewalk-ends-death-internet
To recap: I own my own servers (roughly $20,000 in equipment). I also own my own IPs and ASN ($2,000/yr). I have my upstream ($500/mo). I could become my own .NET domain registrar ($3,500 + $4,000/yr). I have, to the best of my ability, within the limits of a 28-year-old's budget, "built my own Internet".
Despite all that, the Internet has one more weak point: Denial of Service Attacks. These attacks use compromised computers to send massive amounts of junk data to a single point, blotting out legitimate traffic and potentially overwhelming target devices.
DoS attacks are cheap. Botnet resellers are easy to find. They're easy to use. However, they are not cheap to mitigate. A 10Gbps attack costs less than $100 for a month, but a 10Gbps line costs $750/mo. 10Gbps-capable routers costs thousands. That is already excessive, but attacks frequently top 100Gbps or even 1000Gbps. Few companies can handle this job. Those companies come under intense political scrutiny. Cloudflare is the biggest, and I use them.
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Recent image of Josh.: That face. There is a look of hopelessness staring outward.
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As long as Jawsh can keep reposting old MATI articles on ZeroHedge to get a dozen pages of asspats, he'll keep KF going. As long as he can act like a total pants-on-head retard with his random chimpouts at longtime members and get attention, he'll keep KF going. As long as he can use the Melinda Scotts and Russell Greers of the world with their constant and frivolous legal bullshit to generate enough anger and/or sympathy so that the T&H people keep opening their wallets for him and KF month after month, he'll keep KF going.

Yes, KF is replaceable, but I don't see it going away anytime soon. JCM can't let that happen, because if he did, then everything he's done in the last 10 years would mean exactly shit. He needs the validation so he can keep seeing himself as the savior of the "free speech" internet, and not as a kissless virgin-with-rage lolcow who burns bridges with everyone who ever crosses his path.

Meanwhile, he's giving us one hell of a show to keep watching!
 
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