Twitter Is DDOSing Itself • Hacker News Board

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

oittaa wrote: post #270

polygamous_bat wrote: post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think if we fired every civil engineer tomorrow, the bridges and the highways they built would fall apart right afterwards, or even in a few months? Engineering isn't like service positions where the lack of competent personnel is felt immediately; the debt keeps growing until your whole system collapses under it one day, how far the day is in the future depends on what system you're working on.

Did you forget how people were saying that Twitter would stop working within days?

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by baby » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

lrvick wrote: post #340

Topfi wrote: post #126

Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement. Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof. I can of…

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Employment is not the choice in the USA because health care is tied to it.

The second reason is H1B.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by MrDresden » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

medium_spicy wrote: post #317

skymast wrote: post #306

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Haven’t been to Norway, then?

He should stop over in Iceland as well when he takes his trip.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by summerlight » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

> If you missed the initial news of the impending showdown, Platformer reported on June 10th that Twitter had been refusing to pay Google for its cloud services ahead of their contract’s June 30th renewal date.

> Twitter’s Google Cloud contract dates back to 2018.

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-has-supposedly-started-payi...

Oh... this explains all this fiasco :facepalm:

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:04 PM UTC

Topfi wrote: post #126

Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement. Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof. I can of…

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by justinhj » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:04 PM UTC

hinkley wrote: post #233

Don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.

Why do people oppose Twitter? It's a social network, you can choose not to use it.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by SkyPuncher » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:04 PM UTC

stefan_ wrote: post #356

amluto wrote: post #88

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Twitter operates its own datacenters.

And yet they also host with AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle. Cloud people take note: this is what lock-in looks like, and it's coming to a place near you.

No, this has nothing to do with lock-in. This has done nothing to do with decision making that subverts good engineering.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by fredgrott » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:06 PM UTC

Use A marketing idiot as engineer chief, win stupid prizes

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Xeamek » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

roughly wrote: post #343

lrvick wrote: post #340

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That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.

Nah, that's bs.

Sure, if you are unskilled worker that's struggling from paycheck to paycheck, then you might not be able to easily change work.

But in our line of work, and ESPECIALLY if you are good enough to work at something like twitter, pretending we are force to work where we are is a cope.

Sure, maybe there are some extreme instances when it is the case, there are always exceptions. But on average, it's cringe when people who earn literally twice what the average population does talk about "job insecurity" and pretend they are in the same boat as trully struggling lower class worker.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by ImaCake » Sat, Jul 01, 2023, 11:10 PM UTC

sakopov wrote: post #359

What I find more ironic than this bug is is that all of these Mastodon evangelists still have Twitter accounts after their Elon meltdown. So much so that they even use it after Twitter stopped public access.

Have you considered that a lot of people use both platforms and don’t really care about the politics of it?

Those who do care are very loud (on both platforms) but they might be a minority in practice.