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

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Post by herpderperator »

fotta wrote: post #95
hristov wrote: post #77

This will be an interesting experiment in large scale code rot. How long do you think twitter.com will work with the code base frozen?

The TLS cert expires on December 12.

My browser said that too, but that certificate may be cached from a while ago. The terminal gives a different set of dates:

  $ openssl s_client -servername twitter.com -connect twitter.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates
  notBefore=Nov 14 00:00:00 2022 GMT
  notAfter=Nov 14 23:59:59 2023 GMT
Edit: Opening my browser in incognito now shows the new expiry too. The non-incognito version continues to show the old expiry.

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

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Post by schleck8 »

r721 wrote: post #157

>Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned. https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593431420587761664

This reads like a parody haha

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

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Post by typon »

memish wrote: post #307
7e wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

If you think the CEO of Tesla and Founder, CEO, Chief Engineer of SpaceX is a failure, I'm dying to know: What have you accomplished?

Film critics, music critics, food critics all need to be directors, artists and chefs?

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

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Post by jcranmer »

notatoad wrote: post #330
7e wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

The Boring Company didn't fail. The boring company was a scam to delay and distract the california high-speed rail project. and it continues to delay and distract other public transit projects around the country to this day. it's been a resounding success. https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...

Minor note: The Boring Company is a completely separate idea from the hyperloop. They instead proposed what's essentially a Personal Rapid Transit concept ("The Loop"), which has been shopped around a couple of times, but has seen no takers other than the Las Vegas Convention Center. The only public transit project it seriously competed for was one iteration of the O'Hare/Loop express transit system, but that was a zombie project that had already died a decade earlier.

The main arguments being used to militate against urban rapid transit (i.e., metro systems, regional rail; not inter-city HSR) these days tend to be "automated taxis will make all of this imminently obsolete," although that may have died down in the past several years given that a decade has passed since it was first trotted out.

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

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Post by bogomipz »

pschuegr wrote: post #25

I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues…

And it's not even just going "hardcore" his wording was "extremely hardcore."[1]. That sounds devoid of fun to me and possibly a euphemism for exhaustion. The World Cup starts on Sunday, it will be interesting to see if the wheels stay on for that.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twi...

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

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Post by fotta »

herpderperator wrote: post #381
fotta wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The TLS cert expires on December 12.

My browser said that too, but that certificate may be cached from a while ago. The terminal gives a different set of dates: $ openssl s_client -servername twitter.com -connect twitter.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -dates notBefore=Nov 14 00:00:00 2022 GMT notAfter=Nov 14 23:59:59 2023 GMT Edit: Opening my browser in incognito now shows the new expiry too. The non-incognito version continues to show the ol…

I think they rotated it. The new one isn’t in crt.sh yet, but for posterity’s sake this is the old one https://crt.sh/?q=DA26F72EACAC75CCEE794140441020848697AEB0

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

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Post by camjohnson26 »

throw2022110401 wrote: post #223
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…

Not to mention the fucking insulting assumption that people were not already working hard. During my tour (left years ago) there have been many time periods when I worked my ass off. I ended up leaving because of the total burn-out and the effect it started to have on my health. Despite that even years later I played with the idea of going back someday. No chance of that now of course. So sad to see it end this way.

Do you have an opinion on all the people who are saying that Twitter had too many engineers but never delivered anything?

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

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Post by dehrmann »

tjpnz wrote: post #361
minimaxir wrote: post #32

Elon's first non-reply tweet since the news broke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 > How do you make a small fortune in social media? > Start out with a large one.

Must be fun to truly believe you're a Bond villain.

If someone has a secret volcano lair, it's Larry Ellison, but I'm sure Elon has something too.
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