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Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by NegativeK »

unconed wrote: post #422
martincmartin wrote: post #373

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The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…

Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…

> The subtext is that Twitter changing hands also involved trimming a lot of the dead weight, particularly hitting the ... diversity ... side.

Your statement is gross.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by ineedasername »

unconed wrote: post #422
martincmartin wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…

Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…

>has made way for free-speech

Here’s just a few of the people (in these cases journalists) that Elon has banned. It’s not hard to find other examples of censorship either. That’s his right, he owns all of it, but he lied about ideals of free speech. If it’s speech he doesn’t like, he kills it:

Ryan Mac

Drew Harwell

Micah Lee

Matt Binder

Aaron Rupar

Donie O’Sullivan

Tony Webster

EDIT: these bans were related to reporting on the elonjet tracking account that was banned. He didn’t just ban the account he didn’t like, he banned the accounts of journalists who talked about that.

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by Scalene2 »

rs999gti wrote: post #449
nicolas_17 wrote: post #404

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

It's still not forced to work, unless going back to your home country is worse than working at Twitter?

Would anyone get a visa to work in another country if it would not be better than being in their home country?

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by howinteresting »

WalterBright wrote: post #475
7e wrote: post #469

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If they’re on an H1-B, they practically are.

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Honestly your attitude here and in other comments over the years has turned me off using D forever. No one in power in the Rust community would be able to get away with the sorts of comments you're making.

(The Rust community has its own very serious issues but no one would even try to say "boo hoo if they don't like it they can just uproot their lives and go back to a place they specifically got away from, nbd")

Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

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Post by mensetmanusman »

walrus01 wrote: post #437
martincmartin wrote: post #373

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The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…

> The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. This is like a case study in what happens when you fire everyone except the sycophants and yes-men. I only feel sorry for remaining non-yes-men twitter employees who might still be there because for whatever personal reasons they're in a precarious economic situation where they can't quit (H1B?) or are tied to…

Yeah I wish Obama care had simply been: 'employer provided healthcare is illegal in 2024'
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