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

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Post by egberts1 »

1attice wrote: 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…

All one has to confirm is look into the privacy/system privilege that a Twitter app consumes to say "oh, yeah; website-version of Twitter is a safer thing to use".

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Post by greyhair »

andyjda wrote: post #419
nemothekid wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's a lose-lose situation; I don't think Twitter's problems would be solved by engineering harder; and you will spend 80 hrs/wk where you can end up fired because people aren't as deterministic as cars. It's a comp…

> 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…

I will also say, this was a great analogy

> if a pizza delivery company decided to invest in better cars because people criticized their pizzas

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Post by Publius_Enigma »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #810
Publius_Enigma wrote: post #790

I find it curious that Musk has simultaneously demanded that all employees cease working from home and return to the office whilst also locking them out of the office.

Do you really? Even when couched in terms of "this was a panic emergency measure"? It seems blindingly obvious.

Yes, but only because of the way Musk went about changing the WFH Policy. Musk is quoted as saying "If you can physically make it to an office and you don't show up, resignation accepted". He was placing the onus onto employees to make it to an office at all costs, else they would be out of a job. To then lock employees out after such histrionic demands seems ironic.

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Post by nemo44x »

zuminator wrote: post #433
edmundsauto wrote: post #404

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't intend to be mean, but I think your statement is trivially disprovable: $4.8B annual revenue, even if every advertiser spent $1M annually, that's 4,800 advertisers who all require inside reps. If each rep can handle 100 clients (unlikely; that's less than 1 hour / month attention), they would need 480 inside reps alone just to keep ad agencies happy.

4800/100 = 48, what am I missing?

He’s just another guy making up bullshit jobs.

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Post by roflyear »

noobermin wrote: post #220
rednerrus wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm giving Elon the benefit of the doubt, A. he's intelligent B. He has 20+ years of corporate experience running companies, I would assume that there was some method to this madness. If I had to guess, he came in with the assumption that forces in the company would be hostile to him based on their beliefs. In order to weed those forces out, he engineered some of this madness to shake those people out. Unfortunate…

I'm amazed at how naive some of the people are here. Why not just accept what you're seeing with your own two eyes? Why look for an alternate explanation?

They're rich so they are different than us.

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Post by xxs »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #745

Well, we'll have to see how this plays out. "We'll send humans to Mars!" is something that I can feel good about working 80 hours a week on. "We'll help trolls spew hate!" ... maybe, not so much.

>We'll send humans to Mars

Even if(when) we do - what's there? We are progressively failing a perfectly habitable world that even has a magnetic core. Moving to another planet will not solve anything for the humans.

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Post by thrwyoilarticle »

mym1990 wrote: post #60
mongol wrote: post #2

How will Musk's failure at Twitter affect market confidence in his other ventures?

Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned products. Luckily almost every automaker is coming out with their own EVs in the next couple years, so the market should be pretty competitive(in some ways it already is).

Is this in solidarity because you don't like him or because it reduces your faith in his other companies?

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Post by CGamesPlay »

hef19898 wrote: post #635

How does one follow a come-back-to-office police while being simultaniously being locked out from said office? Is this an employer lockout, the employer version of an employee strike? So many questions! Maybe one of those blue checkmarked Elon's on Twitter can answer! But seriously, how can someone burn down something he just bought for 44 billion so fast and consequently?

He's only playing with 22% of his next worth, it's not like this is a "serious problem" for him if the thing drops to 0 value.

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Post by pelorat »

rot13xor wrote: post #551
mongol wrote: post #2

How will Musk's failure at Twitter affect market confidence in his other ventures?

It's counterintuitive but Tesla shareholders might want Twitter to fold quickly so Elon can fully focus on Tesla again.

Well, as someone who hold about $10K in TSLA, I'd like to see Elon fired.

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Post by [deleted] »

westhom wrote: post #717
hintymad wrote: post #175

The management is worried about internal sabotage? My Twitter friends said Twitter has been having large exodus. CSL(core systems lib?) team, blobstore team, graph platform team, and revenue forecasting team seemed have all quit. I'm not sure how robust and autonomous Twitter's infra is. Hopefully Twitter will continue to function.

It makes me wonder how much “infrastructure runway” a company like Twitter has. If every engineer resigns, how long will it take before the infrastructure stops working autonomously… server/DB hard drives fill up or crash, PSUs die, high maintenance processes grind to a haunt, network capacity stops scaling, etc.

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