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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by DonHopkins »

choppaface wrote: post #213
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…

Well "forced to execute" is somewhat subjective. If you are convinced leadership is doing the "wrong thing," then best to either leave or accept that you're just collecting your paycheck. In the case of Twitter, the new owner has thoroughly broken the advertising business and is trying to aggressively pursue a new version of the data business Twitter once had-- E.g. Google's Caffeine, which Twitter also eventually lo…

Wouldn't it be more efficient if Twitter just served as a broker for connecting scrapers directly to bots, so they didn't have to pay the bandwidth charges?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Barrin92 »

justinhj wrote: post #366
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.

I've got a rule of thumb, if a communication network is so large that governments who control nuclear arms use it to communicate "just ignore it" doesn't really work

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Scalene2 »

WalterBright wrote: post #453
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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Except those who if they stopped working at Twitter could easily end up deported.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by flangola7 »

WalterBright wrote: post #453
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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Between visa and healthcare matters there are undeniably employees in that exact predicament.

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Post by tbrownaw »

praisewhitey wrote: post #355
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…

>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. In this case the horrible idea is being forced to push changes to production at a moments notice

> push changes to production at a moments notice

Isn't that one of the DORA metrics?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by WalterBright »

LiquidSky wrote: post #423
7thaccount wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You gotta get executives in writing sometimes or they'll throw you under the bus later.

From previous stories about Elon, telling him he’s wrong is a guarantee you’re going under that bus.

Every person in power is told he's wrong every day, all day, by most everyone.

Heck, I've hired people to teach me things, told them they were wrong, and learned the hard way, many times.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by rideontime »

mcint wrote: post #382

Matters little, but the rate limits are opening back up. 6k/600/300 -> 8k/800/400 (~noon) -> 10k/1k/500 (~3pm) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754 and self-reply

I managed to hit the (newly raised?) rate limit simply by tapping that link. What a circus.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by 18pfsmt »

kristianc wrote: post #319
epistasis wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing about having leadership that is known to lie about anything or everything, for any sort of imagined personal gain, is that the very concept of truth is destroyed. I agree that this is probably not the bug at the root of it all. But I also don't believe the story that Musk is selling for why he's in effect shutting down the site. But both could be true and I'm still thinking about other potential reasons, a…

That’s exactly it. Musk a week ago was telling us that there were a record number of user seconds on the site. Now he’s telling us they’re all content-scrapers. The very concept of truth is eroded.

His claim is that there are a few hundred scrapers causing issues, which makes sense given the recent changes to the paid API.

An assumptions of good faith was once a well-held principle on this website, and it's too bad legacy media has led so many astray.

Hatred for Musk has truly captured many otherwise very logical minds.

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Post by 7e »

WalterBright wrote: post #453
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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If they’re on an H1-B, they practically are.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by BryantD »

tasubotadas wrote: post #454
highmastdon wrote: post #424

What a toxic thread... Both here and the post on sfba.social

Lots of FAANG developers here hate Musk because he has shown that 80% of them is a waste of salary.

Twitter has been severely hampered for 12+ hours, and that’s only the latest issue. I don’t think Musk has demonstrated anything conclusively quite yet.
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