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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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> get a wide swath of information anymore My personal feeling is that a lot of the social troubles of the past decade stem from information overload. I subscribed to News Minimalist and have been feeling much happier lately. https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Thank you for this, this will be exceedingly useful :)

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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I've a scalability problem I'll add a dedicated microservice I've now two scalability problems

That's not a scalability problem, that's a poor engineering problem, let's not start to find excuses

Talents left twitter already, I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that took over are the ones who come from the intelligence industry, as opposed to the tech industry

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Wagner, now located in Belarus, was still Russian when they downed 6 helicopters and a plane last week-end.

I think they're the worst single day losses in the Russian Air Force's history (which only goes back to the 90s, but still).

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Also, taking Elon's word at face value for a second... is Twitter really worth scraping for AI training or whatever? Its a hive of misinformation, disinformation and toxicity. Its succinct I guess, but nothing is eloquent or descriptive because of the character limit. And its full of repetitive "filler" information. Who wants that in a foundational LLM dataset? Maybe its OK for finding labeled images... But that stil…

Maybe someone is trying to make a disinformation bot. (half-serious) I mean as far as uses for LLMs go that seems to me a pretty realistic one. Mass quick propaganda with little effort. Go for immediate impact, doesn't matter if people look deeper, you're just looking to get a swell of emotional reactions.

Yeah, I guess its a way to make an "engagement optimization" bot using follows/likes from posts as criteria.

... That is horrifying.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Around 300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...

That's all employees, not just engineers.

H1-B is for "highly skilled" workers, what skilled workers would Twitter have other than developers?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon, is that you? Reminds me of the joke: Pavlov was sitting at the bar when the last order bell rang. "Oh shit", he thought, "I forgot to feed the dogs".

Conditioning works both ways!
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