yeah I totally understand that. that was something that got me to scale Facebook way back too. someone you know would hit like on a story about vaccinations and you'd view the comments and like 85% of them would be about how Fauci needs to be waterboarded. you have to remind yourself that anyone who isn't brain damaged by the internet just isn't commenting on this stuff.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
as always, never read the comments
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Never read the bottom half of the internet, as they say. Unfortunately Twitter doesn't seem to have a top half to start with.
― no jaki liebezeit required (Matt #2), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
yeah i mean i read the comments lol theyre not good
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
this is not evidence that twitter has no idea how to do engineering and is reckless, which is presumably the implication. it's evidence the person making it is either not an engineer, or has never worked at a big company before (both true of the author).
Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems. pic.twitter.com/rEBJtaOm9Q— Avid Halaby (@AvidHalaby) December 12, 2022
that's the mudge report.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
(from the whistleblower thread)
mudge mad
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388261391i/920785.jpg
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
lol caek, I read that and was like “wait, isn’t this extremely common in microservice architectures, like want there a massive push in the industry to do this because it was more accurate and easier to manage than trying to wrangle five different never-in-sync environments”
I kept wanting to post “feature flag much” in response
― castanuts (DJP), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
yup. also running a "test instance" (lol) of twitter.com with any fidelity would cost hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
wasn't there an employee-internal one tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
employees see some features that are behind feature flags when they visit twitter.com.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
In a bid to make the site even more shit, in the sidebar they've replaced LISTS (useful feature, often used it) with TWITTER BLUE (which I will never click unless brain damaged).
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/8qBrTUg.png
prompt: blue retro throwback bumper 80s twitter logo
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
(useful feature, often used it)
I navigate twitter primarily via lists
― more crankable (sic), Thursday, 15 December 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
For now it's still there, apparently, buried under the three dots
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
yeah it moved under the dots a couple of months ago, pre-Blue
― more crankable (sic), Thursday, 15 December 2022 04:47 (one year ago) link
For me it was still in the side menu until yesterday.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 December 2022 11:17 (one year ago) link
I’ll give Mudge the benefit of the doubt and assume he’s talking about data rather than services. It’s bizarre Twitter supposedly gives all employees access to production data.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 15 December 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
there are permissions, LDAP groups, etc. it's all very normal principle of least access stuff.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 15 December 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
Twitter down right now. Must be the rush to buy the Trump NFTs.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
It's back. But hope springs eternal.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 15 December 2022 23:55 (one year ago) link
All my mentions are gone again, also they banned It's Going Down.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 16 December 2022 00:17 (one year ago) link
They = Elon and Andy Ngo, presumably
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 16 December 2022 00:18 (one year ago) link
It appears that a number of mainstream journalism are suddenly getting their accounts suspended this evening.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 16 December 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
more and more people are tagging #sendelontomars
― mh, Friday, 16 December 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
Something of a Thursday night massacre going on
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:11 (one year ago) link
Starting to think dismantling twitter as we know it was part of the plan all along (or at least after he was forced to buy it).
― The Bankruptcy of the Planet of the Apes (PBKR), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:13 (one year ago) link
night of the gone wives— PEZ 🍬 (@Senpezeco) December 16, 2022
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
I logged in earlier to see what was up and I couldn’t scroll my timeline past 8 hours ago it just didn’t load
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
i've been pretty checked out of twitter for a few years and i don't have a mastodon account at the moment, but now i'm at least trying to go through people i follow and grab mastodon handles for anyone that might be hard to find if twitter goes down/their accounts get banned.
― circles, Friday, 16 December 2022 06:38 (one year ago) link
lol, also, if i follow a link to someone's mastodon twitter has been throwing up a "Warning: this link may be unsafe"
― circles, Friday, 16 December 2022 06:46 (one year ago) link
15 of the top 20 by follower count are porn. The top non-porn personal accounts are the UKIP Gamergate guy and a Bolsonaro supporter who recently got Elon Musk’s attention with claims of election fraud. https://t.co/LQ5XJfPQ7c— Travis Brown (20-30% parody) (@travisbrown) December 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 December 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
this site seems so dead right now. I follow a number of bot accounts like "Good Faces" or "hourly Nancy comics" or "random King of the Hill frames" and I swear it's like half my TL right now because so many people have just stopped posting. the site itself is buggy, all the ads I'm getting are strange, I'm getting a ton of crypto scams in my DMs and replies, and the only thing people are really talking about is Elon ruining Twitter. can't see it ever getting back to the point where it was merely dying slowly
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
yeah i dont think its going to survive
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
lmao only 2000 people signed up for Blue since it relaunched? god that's just amazingly pathetic
― frogbs, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
2000 out of 18 million accounts, so like a 0.01% signup rate?
so before elon takeover, twitter claimed it had 238 million MDAU, which means maybe 26,000 people have signed up? so, that's like $2.5 million a year in total revenue at $8 a month? lol
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Guess who's not getting any more Twitter Files.
The old regime at Twitter governed by its own whims and biases and it sure looks like the new regime has the same problem. I oppose it in both cases. And I think those journalists who were reporting on a story of public importance should be reinstated.— Bari Weiss (@bariweiss) December 16, 2022
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:29 (one year ago) link
Weiss so woke.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
smh the virus
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:30 (one year ago) link
Ugh, so ungrateful.
So nice of @elonmusk to give you exclusive access to the Twitter files for you to take just a few days to throw shade his way. The journos that were suspended was because they were participating in doxxing. Not that you will, but I’d give posting this a second thought.— Joshua Price (@SpeakToYourMgr) December 16, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:34 (one year ago) link
how is that guy not a twitter blue subscriber?
― mh, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
that may also be the worst use of “throw shade” I have seen
there have been some really bad ones
― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
its very "cringe" how every lil novel turn of phrase gets immediately beaten into the ground by bad internet posters
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Most novel turns of phrase are AAVE and from drag/ballroom culture so I try to avoid most of them bc by the time I hear them they’ve already been busted
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
yeah just talk normal is how i break it down to an extent
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
best to stick to vernacular of your own community even if it means saying you want hen fap
― 龜, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
the craziest one for me is how "based" a term popularized by the very weird and super not right wing rapper lil b has been adopted by nazi shitposters, just awful stuff