tifosi77's thread of Musk

[Troy Loney]

Well, considering his stupid brain chip made chimps eat their fingers off, thank god they aren’t letting him torture people as well

[Trip McNeely]

Just more vaporware

[tifosi77]

Self-crashing cars, self-bankrupting businesses, self-eating primates... boundless innovation.

[NTP66]

[faftorial]

A complete rewrite, lol.

[MR25]

Fire all of your programmers and things go down when you mess with the code. Who knew?

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

it’s funny because the APIs he’s trying to push are his own dumb ideas. Maybe the Twitter product does need a re-write but the cost of doing such for the gain of whatever his awful one off ideas are is a hilarious proposition

[Troy Loney]

I don’t get it, is the thing that his updates are messing with the trending page?

[NTP66]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... all-links/

Twitter suffered an embarrassing technology failure today that temporarily broke links to outside websites and even to Twitter's own webpages. The problem lasted for about 45 minutes or so.

In our tests, clicking any link brought up this error message:

{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api for more information","code":467}]}

Clicking that developer link didn't clear anything up while the problem was still happening because it brought up the same API error message. In addition to news articles and other outbound links, the error message appeared when we tried to click Twitter's terms of service, privacy policy, cookie policy, and other similar pages. Some images embedded in tweets were broken, and there were reports of TweetDeck being broken too.

We also got the error message when loading any Twitter page in a browser's incognito mode. It was still possible to view tweets in a browser tab where we were already logged in to Twitter, and the link problem was a trending topic of discussion.

[faftorial]

With all of their layoffs, developers are probably now tasked with doing user experience testing.

[Troy Loney]

Twitter was actually failing before musk did the leveraged buyout and fired 3/4’s of the staff.

Don’t listen to fake news tell you otherwise

[meow]

Just rewrite Twitter. NBD

[faftorial]

Twitter was actually failing before musk did the leveraged buyout and fired 3/4’s of the staff.

Don’t listen to fake news tell you otherwise

Failed in a technical sense? This outage is the result of changes he's made since taking over:

Before Musk’s takeover, the company had a risk evaluation team that vetted product changes for anticipated problems. Twitter’s risk evaluation process was geared at flagging potential problems before they arose. But the team was laid off after Musk’s takeover, The Washington Post reported, leading to product rollouts that were riddled with bugs.

Musk and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technolo ... r-outages/

[faftorial]

Further down in that article Musk yet again shows what a dopey prick he is:

Monday wasn’t the first time Musk suggested Twitter’s code needed to be entirely rewritten. He has maintained that stance for months, since taking over the site last year. On a December Twitter Spaces, the site’s live audio feature, he said the company’s code base needed to be overhauled.

Pressed by a participant to explain what that meant, Musk grew irritated.

“Amazing, wow,” he said, after hesitations and pauses. “You’re a jackass. … What a moron.”

[NTP66]

That’s the expected response from somebody who doesn’t actually know what he’s talking about. Not at all shocking.

[Gaucho]

What he meant can't be easily written down. It's all in his head.

[faftorial]

What he meant can't be easily written down. It's all in his head.

Like Hextall?

[Gaucho]

What he meant can't be easily written down. It's all in his head.

Like Hextall?

[shafnutz05]

What he meant can't be easily written down. It's all in his head.

[shafnutz05]

(when I made the Hextall connection)... I didn't see @Faftorial's reply

[meow]

Further down in that article Musk yet again shows what a dopey prick he is:

Monday wasn’t the first time Musk suggested Twitter’s code needed to be entirely rewritten. He has maintained that stance for months, since taking over the site last year. On a December Twitter Spaces, the site’s live audio feature, he said the company’s code base needed to be overhauled.

Pressed by a participant to explain what that meant, Musk grew irritated.

“Amazing, wow,” he said, after hesitations and pauses. “You’re a jackass. … What a moron.”

The correct response to this is “so are you not going to actually answer the question or are you just going to continue to try to insult me?”

[Shyster]

[Sam's Drunk Dog]

[NTP66]

He's a proud neckbeard member.

[Troy Loney]

Looking forward to the first good musk post