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Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#541
post #92

I need everyone to think very carefully about the attack surface, and how long it has been left unprotected, and how long it will be unprotected. Now, I need you to consider the following proposition: that eyeballs are to codebases, dashboards and telemetry as floss is to tooth and gum. Then, I need you to go to your phone and uninstall Twitter. Also, when you do visit it, visit it in Firefox. Use a Firefox Container…

This is why I have been saying even if you don't log off from twitter completely at least do houseclean your old tweets with tweetdelete.net (or something IDK).

I do not trust Elon to use my posting history responsibly, period.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#542
post #77

This will be an interesting experiment in large scale code rot. How long do you think twitter.com will work with the code base frozen?

Here's a crazy idea: 1) get rid of most of the existing code base and simply re-implement and migrate existing content and remaining users to the new thing. 2) get some small team together that does this. 3) stop bleeding cash while that plan is being set into motion. 4) keep the existing code base limping along while that is being put into motion. I'm pretty sure that that's the plan Elon Musk is executing. It's sim…

> Simply

Lol

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#543

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's been more than twenty years since the dot-com bust and people still think that just because a company is on a website that makes it a tech company. Sure, Twitter's product is twitter.com the website, but most criticism of it and ideas for improvement don't revolve around the engineering aspects of keeping a website running: t…

> the great distributed system that runs behind the scenes As someone is reported to have been asked in a Twitter job interview, when a celebrity with 10,000,000 followers sends out a tweet, how do you deliver them all within 3 seconds?

Maybe a better question would be: why should we ever care? This isn't insulin delivery.

It's kind of tragic the amount of engineering talent wasted on non-problems at social media websites.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#544
post #214

I was really thinking about this sabbotage thing yesterday. In these large companies, to make changes to a lot of systems, you have to have someone else also sign on to the changes (eg. code review). If your aim is sabotage, you would have to find a like minded saboteur to work with you. In normal times, at most places, this is risky, because most others would not want to assist you, and would likely report you. The…

Risky or not, engaging in criminal activity should and will be treated as such.

Sabotaging by resigning is just perfect and enough.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#546

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea w…

At the end of the day, most software eats the same stuff and the levers are often rudimentary and grokable, especially if you focus on a specific area. I don't think someone could meaningfully implement a new feature in a night, but could they tackle a problem in a given service and identity a rough remediation to save the next 72h? Yes, this stuff happens all the time. I've jumped on outages like this and figured it…

That’s very naive. We’re talking about a distributed system with thousands of servers, with code from people who might not even work there anymore. Yeah, maybe if a server gets a high disk usage alert because of runaway logs you might fix it… but maybe that fix causes another problem, or maybe the alert is in a system that you don’t even know its purpose. Maybe 72h is just what it takes to you understand the internal tooling and how to do any action there.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#547
post #472
post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good word, it gets better from there: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872 > And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol > Let that sink in … He literally cannot distinguish between good and bad attention. He still thinks he's winning this.

Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.

That just tells me that (a) they were/are over provisioned so an increase in DAU was a rather simple thing, (b) computers are deterministic and if everybody quit then the system is at the same state as it was when it already had less DAU and was able to handle more. There is no engineering feat here brought by him.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#548
post #92

I need everyone to think very carefully about the attack surface, and how long it has been left unprotected, and how long it will be unprotected. Now, I need you to consider the following proposition: that eyeballs are to codebases, dashboards and telemetry as floss is to tooth and gum. Then, I need you to go to your phone and uninstall Twitter. Also, when you do visit it, visit it in Firefox. Use a Firefox Container…

This is why I have been saying even if you don't log off from twitter completely at least do houseclean your old tweets with tweetdelete.net (or something IDK). I do not trust Elon to use my posting history responsibly, period.

But you do trust them to delete the data you gave them when you ask nicely?

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#549

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea w…

I think Twitter is becoming a place for high risk reward employment. Maybe it crashes and burns, maybe you quickly ascend the ranks in the turmoil and reach a point in your career that would have taken substantially longer in a more traditional route. If Twitter does something like what Tesla did, you might even get filthy rich. Or, hey, maybe it doesn't work out and you get nothing but an interesting story, Twitter…

Twitter is becoming a place for high risk employment.

The reward is deathmarch with Elon holding the whip.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

#550
lets remember that tesla was a mess at its inception and that musk also kind of had this bossy behavior that made many people reluctant to join its vision. those who joined him became millionaires if not more and contributed to create the greatest automobile company in recent history. and that was after building paypal.

the press and many people in those comments are making a mistake thinking he is a fool and behaved in a stupid way. that is not donald trump. he doesn’t care about people that don’t buy into its vision and he doesnt care if twitter sinks to lower lows in the following years.

for musk, the last years of twitter are a disgusting and corrupt way to deal with democracy and the way business was handled at twitter was totally corrupt. Wether you agree with the democrat agenda or no is a thing. that you want to push your cult into the minds of everyone on twitter while censoring alternative ideas is the problem and does not align with the vision of what a medium of communication should be in a free world. YOU ARE NOT in the side of good because you repeat the woke things that pelosi and its cult are repeating. and your oponents are not NAZIS. mankind is much bigger than your small conflicts and politics and the vision musk has for twitter is bigger than the beliefs of a few corrupt politicians and your voice should not be more important than the one of another human being.

In five years I am pretty sure many of the people that are commenting here will put a lot of money into twitter stock when musk will make it public agaibn.

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