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https://twitter.com/andrewzigler/status/1591105575542468608 Lol if Twitter still even exists long enough for this to be a problem.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The 11 to 15 yo crypto children The crypto manchildren as dumb as 11-15 yo's.
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Nov 12, 2022 14:52
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unknown posted:https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1591425047079813123 I'm surprised nobody's decided to just try and push the whole boat over with a good old-fashioned DDOS attempt yet.
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Nov 13, 2022 14:23
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SilvergunSuperman posted:He cares a lot about adulation though, it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility especially if someone powerful or popular shamed him. He's got so much "I'm so cool, totally rolling with the punches" energy in all his twitter posts that you know Twitter mercilessly dunking on him as the platform burns has to be getting to him privately as he fires another another couple thousand Twitter employees out of spite.
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Nov 15, 2022 09:44
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I feel like Elon's gotta be firing these people thinking smugly about how they'll never work again because Elon Musk, Cool Billionaire Guy, fired them so clearly nobody else will want to hire them, and that'll make the other employees behave and stop complaining.
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Nov 15, 2022 16:29
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thin blue whine posted:you really have to be extremely fragile, pathetic, and ego driven to be a billionaire don't you? i always knew rich and powerful people were but i assumed it was a consequence of having a shitton of money not a necessarily a requirement to make it but i am completely dispelled of that now. on top of that you definitely have to be completely and utterly unaware of your own stupidity or limitations you may have. you basically hire people or con people into thinking you have some kind of value to rally around, then yell at them until they do poo poo you can take all the profit and credit for. More likely the people they hire con them into thinking anything they do is the right move so the free money ride doesn't end by upsetting the Billionaire.
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Nov 16, 2022 10:28
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TulliusCicero posted:Lol a drone bomb is going to off the wealthiest man in the world, and everyone is going to shrug Let's be honest, a guy in a nodescript business suit could walk in, pop him twice with a silenced pistol, and nobody would bat an eyelid at this point. We'd just all agree it was an absolutely tragic suicide.
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Nov 16, 2022 15:07
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Tricky Ed posted:And even though twitter dot com probably won't get squatted when it comes up for renewal soon, everyone who relies on Twitter is having to consider other options. No one can ever trust the service again. Not advertisers, not news organizations, not media companies, not businesses, not users. Not in the way they did a month ago. Someone will absolutely be waiting for the exact moment that domain's up for renewal, if only because it'll be really funny. At worst you could make Elon pay you a shitload of money to get it back.
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Nov 18, 2022 11:25
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frumpykvetchbot posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63672307 They're not opening on Monday, you know it and I know it. Hell, the building could be sold or demolished by Monday at this rate.
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Nov 18, 2022 12:58
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Endorph posted:hes right that its not like twitter is going to immediately die forever within the next week tbh. When Twitter falls, it's gone and potentially never coming back. Anyone who knows what's broken and why left or was fired, and the people that crunch for Musk probably aren't gonna stick around for long either. Last one out won't need to switch off the lights, the power will short out on its own.
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Nov 19, 2022 05:56
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:these here forums chugged along for years with only the combined might of Lowtax and Radium code DELETE CASCADE posted:yes. twitter is a global distributed system of insane complexity More importantly, Lowtax and Radium were the ones that built this mess and, vaguely, knew what did what. Musk fired the people who knew what does what in Twitter's bespoke global distributed system, and when it goes, anybody left can't do anything except scratch their heads and hope real hard someone actually wrote documentation or it's just hosed because it's all Twitter-custom.
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Nov 19, 2022 07:52
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learnincurve posted:lol in order to see musk's tweets you have to go to his feed, he's not blocked or anything the site is just hosed. That's step 1, Elon. Now what about 2 through 99 to complete the initial scope and review before even touching code?
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Nov 19, 2022 14:10
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I wonder if Elon's idea for Twitter 2.0 is simply to nuke and pave? Twitter is "clearly" overdone and inefficient says Elon, better to just move fast and start over from scratch to make it cooler, hipper, and Elon's without having to worry about what was built by those stupid smelly people who said no in increasingly louder and exasperated voices to Elon and hurt his ego. The trick is getting it done before Old Twitter falls over, and who cares about that?  Completely ignoring the FTC, SEC, various laws, and everyone who'd advertise bailing in the interim because they'll all come to Elon's Twitter 2.0 because he is the cool billionaire innovator.  Woolie Wool posted:Lowtax (or Jeffrey of YOSPOS, for that matter) couldn't run Twitter either, admining a webforum for a self-selecting group of nerds based on '90s technology is a much easier job than doing the same for a gigantic public utility to which the largest corporations in the world entrust their brands, that is also a political battleground of a scale and intensity that makes the Great Ukraine Thread War look like a polite dinner party. Twitter's much worse off; SA's built in a way you can probably park any random web dev in front of the source code and they'll muddle through okay (if perhaps get very angry at it). Twitter is apparently entirely bespoke and has to train in their staff. The people who do that training are gone. The knowledge involved in that training could be anywhere, and possibly exclusively in the heads of the people who conducted that training (and are now gone). Twitter's internal systems potentially might as well be a black box to whoever's left, or brought in. Commands, documents, backups. All there, all unknown to a layman brought in by Elon. All the speculation of "they can get it up again" also relies on people knowing what they're doing in a sane company. Twitter under Elon when it falls over is probably gonna him yelling at foreign contractors on visas to Make Twitter Work Again, and firing 10% of them as a warning to the rest for not typing at a high enough WPM. And telling the rest they're next if Twitter's not back online in an hour (when it could probably take like a well-coordinated day for people who know what they're doing to stage Twitter's full setup cold).
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Nov 19, 2022 18:06
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Endorph posted:frankly there are thousands of people on twitter both worse than trump and more actively malicious than him that werent banned even before musk took over so i dont really care that hes unbanned. i pray that trump has it in him to do the funniest possible thing of refusing to go back. The problem was Trump was/is ground-zero. Anything Trump screams from his decaying brain gets echoed out by those other thousands of people as a coordinate single effort because (Ex-)President Trump Said It and it looks legitimate to Boomers. Being excised from Twitter like the cancerous polyp he is killed his reach so those other thousands of people have to throw random assorted poo poo and hope something sticks.
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Nov 20, 2022 03:29
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ronya posted:the thesis is that twitter is solving the scaling problems too well (and at too high a cost) - that its business would not really suffer proportionately if it went down a little more often but saved a lot more on really costly talent and infra Given Twitter's bespoke engineering, I'd bet money that a lot of that "standing around doing nothing" is on-call and redundant staff. The ones where it might look like they're on the payroll doing nothing most of the week, but are there so if someone goes on holidays/hospital/dies that role is covered and users never notice. So what was a team of, let's say, a dozen full-time and/or casual staff rostered throughout the week for on-call and shifts could now be just 3 full-time guys constantly rotating first/second/third shift EVERY DAY and collectively drinking their way to burnout and trying to quit at the same time so they don't screw over the other two.
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Nov 20, 2022 08:02
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Unperson_47 posted:I didn't even think of this. Does a twitter account being suspended hide all its tweets? It does, yes. All you see is a message stating it belongs to a suspended account that did something naughty and was moderated.
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Nov 21, 2022 01:05
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priznat posted:It’s amazing that musk can actually make trump look good in comparison. I mean Musk hasn’t instigated any insurrections or anything but probably would if he had the chance. Trump genuinely thinks he's cool, amazing, and liked by everyone because he's rich and a shrewd Dealmaker. (  )Elon can't even manage even that. He's an insecure twit openly trying to suck up to everyone and hoping it'll make them like his fundamentally-unlikeable personality. Everything he does is rooted in the idea of "Maybe THIS will be the thing that makes the other children in my brain stop pointing at me and teasing me and say I'm cool", rather than any real intent of innovation.
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Nov 21, 2022 03:22
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Bad Purchase posted:the more elon taunts him to come back, the weaker it will make trump look if he does, so i'm not at all convinced he'll do it Nah, he's let Andrew Tate and Kanye back on as well, Elon's firmly in the headspace of thinking free speech drives engagement, and having three of the horsemen of fuckwittery ride in together will make everyone flock to Twitter to witness the spectacle. And Elon'll be cool because he made it happen!!  ...why are you all sighing and cupping your faces? 
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Nov 21, 2022 07:55
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Outrail posted:So basically the opposite of this, but also kinda this? Quick analogy, but basically think of it like an office and Aurora is bossing the servers around as employees. If something needs doing, it'll find a server that's free and dump that task on them. If a server's failing metrics, or just plain stops responding, it'll give it a talking to and a nice warm restart to get it going again. If something breaks, Aurora passes the task(s) the dud server had to another one to keep things smooth for the customers and logs a ticket to get someone to clean up and replace the dead server. And the person dealing with the dead server is IT for people needing to set foot in the data center, by the sounds of it.
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Nov 22, 2022 08:49
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boofhead posted:elon musk will never stop posting his Loss.jpgs Elon's unbans are making Twitter too loving crowded.
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Nov 22, 2022 09:06
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TulliusCicero posted:Elon Musk is South Park Mel Gibson in real life It's even sadder than that; It's 44 billion to basically say "Look how cool I am insulated twitter boomers; I am friends with cool popular guy Donald Trump!", except Trump didn't bite because he didn't want to be associated with a loser like Elon Musk .
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Nov 22, 2022 13:24
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Tea Party Crasher posted:"Tired of all the whining" the CEOs whine as their companies are at their highest productivity and making record profits. Always have. Got to constantly watch for competition any form from the peons under them, and if you're not working, you're not making/earning money. And that's weakness and laziness. Numbers must Go Up.
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Nov 23, 2022 00:49
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PITY BONER posted:If it's like what Apple does to kowtown to the CCP/China, the apps would be removed from the app store but still usable for whoever has them currently on their phone. However, if they delete the app, the phone gets wiped, or they get a new phone, then they're poo poo out of luck and that app is gone forever unless their new phone (and I think the account) is from another region. Twitter could kill the app themselves by accident just by making API changes in the backend afterwards if Apple pull the app.
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Nov 23, 2022 08:26
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The_Franz posted:Don’t worry, geohot is currently fixing twitter… One line of javascript. To search a backend api, no values or explanation of the architecture. Sure thing, easy as pie... 
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Nov 23, 2022 09:09
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Beartaco posted:Him being stumped on the front end such that he needs to bring in outside help does not bode well for his ability to perform on the rest of this project. It's not even how you'd solve this problem, because THE FIRST question here is "Are you working from a local clientside cache, or expecting this mythical line of Javascript to query the backend and pull tailored results". If he can't discern that much on his own,
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Nov 23, 2022 09:58
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kazil posted:I don't think he really had much of a choice in either of those examples No, he had the choice of not firing those people or barrelling through with the paid check even though he probably had a dozen people telling him not to do either. This is a personal hell of his own making, and it's delightful to watch from a distance. I hope the EU or one of the alphabet agencies in the US find something to nail his head to a wall with as a warning to others.
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Nov 24, 2022 02:58
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mind the walrus posted:After over half a decade of nonstop miscarriages of justice from a stacked Supreme Court and ineffectual prosecution agencies against Trump, I'm not counting any chickens until they're in handcuffs and the sentence is getting read out. He could get away clean in the US, but the EU will gut him like a fish for the employees there.
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Nov 24, 2022 04:09
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Rigel posted:Related to this, I'm really curious about what kind of complete imbecile decided that it would be a good idea to completely shun LIDAR and just assume they can program their way into making cameras work. Since this is an Elon company and its clear now that he's a loving idiot with no empathy, I'm wondering if maybe his engineers and lawyers wanted to use LIDAR as a backup but maybe this was one of the few times Elon broke free of containment by his Elon-wranglers and insisted they go without. Allegedly Elon was big on insisting "if other people do it we should be different just to be different". A bunch of Tesla's problem are supposedly rooted in that, because even down to common-sense machining/assembly practices were not allowed. Gotta be different and break the mould!!
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Nov 25, 2022 13:55
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Gerblyn posted:Lots of people have been talking about why the Code Review poo poo that Elon has been pulling is dumb, but no-one's really explained why. So I've made an attempt to try and explain to a lay person what it actually is that makes this process such a terrible idea. I'm nodding in agreement with this using an invisible bunny mob's player detection.
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Nov 25, 2022 16:47
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priznat posted:I bet the firings from the code review were for using the wrong number of spaces, or tabs for indents. Elon seems like that kind of prick. You wrote three lines of code* this week, I can see it in your commits. This guy on an H-1B Visa wrote two HUNDRED lines of code** this week, so clearly he's the better coder and we're keeping him on instead of your lazy rear end!  .* for a core system to resolve an esoteric show-stopping bug that took two weeks to isolate, reproduce, and develop a fix for that only three people in the company know how it works in the first place. **General functionality for low-level API endpoints returning client queries.
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Nov 25, 2022 17:19
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heavy liquid posted:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-26/musk-says-he-d-back-desantis-for-president-if-he-makes-2024-run "Fine! If Trump won't be my friend, maybe Ron DeSantis will be. I'm not mad, you're mad!"
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Nov 26, 2022 13:52
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Edwardly posted:
He probably thinks it's an artificial limit somewhere that can just Go Up without issue. I'd wager a lot of meetings and judicious back-end testing over a year or two went on before even formerly considering bumping the character count to 280.
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Nov 27, 2022 13:03
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SirPhoebos posted:Still feeling comfortable with my "slapfight-then-blacklisted by CC Payment Processors" prediction. I'm hoping he pisses off SWIFT instead. Because you do not gently caress with SWIFT full-stop if you want to do any form of banking.
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Nov 28, 2022 02:58
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Perestroika posted:Apparently it's from one of the new Deus Ex games. So it's not even from something even halfway interesting or conic. Lol of course he thinks he's David Sarif or something.
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Nov 28, 2022 12:18
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Good Sphere posted:Oh please god please please kick Twitter off the app store There's a bigger to be had in the chart - Tesla's on it too! 
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Nov 29, 2022 06:47
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TelevisedInsanity posted:https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63796832 Lol, he truly thinks all those poll votes are real people and he's some great liberator of The People instead of a narcissist getting suckered by bots.
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Nov 30, 2022 09:47
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spunkshui posted:Hes trying to automate moderation. It's so SIMPLE! Don't you understand what cam be done with coding and automation?? What so you mean "Nuance and context"??
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Nov 30, 2022 10:27
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Midnight Voyager posted:PLEASE let him do this, payment processors loving hate anything that looks like porn, that will cause him so many problems. Supposedly SWIFT was Not Happy with OnlyFans and that was part of the reason to try and drop the porn. I'd love to see idiot failson Elon Musk piss off the people who can decide Twitter, or Elon, don't get to have a bank account anymore period. 
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Dec 1, 2022 01:38
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Who in the pool has "EU kills Twitter by banning it". Because you know he's not gonna un-gently caress his content moderation after all that talk of free speech. keyframe posted:He already has the gun at his bedside now all he needs is the implants and the trenchcoat. Oh please. You just know he's already got a trenchcoat.
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funeral home DJ posted:2045: Elon Musk uploads his consciousness to a chipset to allow him to live eternally; it’s immediately ripped out of the machine and vigorously stomped upon by everyone in the room. I'd want a SOMA-esque fate for him. Thinking he'd escape mortality, just to realize his stupid rear end is still "in" his body and there's a copy on-screen in front of him. THEN ripping out the machine and vigorously stomping on it by everyone in front of him.
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