The Elon Twitter movie will be the next Borat, I can’t wait.
It’s already being produced. I heard that the budget was US$44B
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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#432Matters 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 regained access and got rate-limited again (presumably under these new limits) within about 5-6 minutes.
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#433Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> 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. Я, Unless your visa is sponsored by your employer.
Everybody has an opportunity cost against losing their job. And employees do have Rights but the right to have technical initiatives adjudicated against stupidity is not one of them.
The OP is fundamentally wrestling with an issue of justice, but the bottom line is that in business there is no punishment for stupid. There is only reward for profit.
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#435Central Services finally caught Archibald Tuttle, now everything is falling apart.
Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us.
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#436> 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:
As the article says, and as Bloomberg, etc have also reported. Twitter finally agreed to play nice with Google and the issue was resolved. They are probably trying to get off of GCP, but this isn't because they suddenly lost access to GCP from payment refusal.
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#437Speaking 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…
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 the company for healthcare coverage (Thanks, America, for being the greatest country in the world) because they can't afford any other health insurance option.
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#438Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sure the loads are not comparable.
Honestly. what the fuck is this response? I hear always that centralising everything is great because efficiencies of scale: but then we have something that works as good or better and the response is; “ah yeah, but the load is so high!” Why do I care? I don't honestly give a shit about how much load you have, you could be factoring Pi on every page load; it means -nothing- to me. I kindly invite you to give more of…
I couldn't see a few threads on Mastadon a few weeks ago, the post was up for 24 hours, and the perceived outage never dropped through that entire period, and probably longer after I stopped caring about the post. There were numerous people on HN experiencing the same.
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#440What 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.
I’ve been off Twitter since naughty ol’ mr car started his war on the journalists (I did return briefly to make a silly joke when he briefly banned mention of the dread term ‘mastodon’). I’ve kept the account, because, well, I’ve had it for over 15 years (back when they had a visible auto-incrementing numeric ID it was six figures), and maybe at some point he’ll lose interest and Twitter will return to semi-competent (it was never great) management. I suspect a lot of people are in the same boat.
But also, yes, I use it to observe the latest meltdown; why shouldn’t I?