The great Twitter cleaning has begun

[Ivanhoe]

17 minutes ago, glenn239 said:

What would be the effect of Apple deplatforming Twitter?  Would it end Twitter or would this break Apple's monopoly has half the country pitched their I-phones?

Or, Musk peels off a cool $1B from his roll of walking-around money and has a mobile-friendly website built that works just as smoothly as a native mobile app on iOS.

 

[Murph]

8 hours ago, rmgill said:

Umm. Yeah there is. Monitoring of server class sytems tells you the health of multiple CPUs, memory, drives, PSUs, fans.  Not a bar so much as a set of lights, but green/amber/red status is certainly a facet of HP iLO and Dell OME monitoring. 

I doubt the pink haired interns who were pressing the shadow ban buttons were the ones ALSO keeping the lights on. Tater and Not Fredo didn't know the first thing about the server infrastructure in my data centers let alone the TGR spaces that made their news programs possible. 

I think musk knows how to run an IT stack. Twitter isn't flying to orbit then landing back where it launched with a suicide burn. 

No the Left wing Nazi's at Twitter were not the ones keeping the servers running, I suspect most of those folks are still employed there.  The ones who have been canned, needed to go.  Now what is going to be interesting is the Federal lawsuit in Missouri, now that Musk has shown both Social media companies AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT are committing perjury.  

I am one of two investigators who ever got a perjury charge actually prosecuted.  Prosecutors hate that charge since it apparently is hard to "prove" beyond a reasonable doubt.  I got it done, with 5 counts of Aggravated Perjury, and 3 perjury.  So with what Musk has released, it looks like they have "beyond a reasonable doubt", but since the (in)Justice Department is the one doing it, who will prosecute them?

[glenn239]

5 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Or, Musk peels off a cool $1B from his roll of walking-around money and has a mobile-friendly website built that works just as smoothly as a native mobile app on iOS.

 

I like it - so Apple's threats are hollow then?

[rmgill]

On 12/10/2022 at 4:15 AM, Ssnake said:

Yeah, for the hardware. But you don't know if the code that the server executes may have a problem, until there is a problem. And I agree, firing 50% of the staff in a social media platform type of company isn't a big problem if you fire the right 50%. Whether their target discrimination was so good, we'll see. Obviously, every day passing with the lights still on increases their chances of making it.

You can have health statuses of loads on servers, site load times, system wide status indicators and metrics. It all depends on if the monitoring team is good or not. 
 

The apparent metric of show your last 6 months of code is probably a good metric for developers. 

[Ivanhoe]

[DKTanker]

 

[rmgill]

I gotta get a job with him. 

[Ivanhoe]

[Murph]

I actually thought about sending in a resume since I investigated child sex crimes for 13 years.  The more that comes out, it looks like the Yoel Roth guy has some...issues around child sex acts.  

[Murph]

Looks like the former Twitter higher ups liked child sexual abuse.  Hmmmm

 

[NickM]

3 hours ago, Murph said:

I actually thought about sending in a resume since I investigated child sex crimes for 13 years.  The more that comes out, it looks like the Yoel Roth guy has some...issues around child sex acts.  

Why does a line from a crappy spaghetti western with Telly Savalas come to mind: there won't be a courts martial! Executions on the spot!

[Skywalkre]

Have a buddy in my online gaming circle that works at SpaceX and has always been an adamant defender of Musk.  Finally caught up with him in discord earlier this morning.  A few other folks joined the channel and another guy hadn't talked to him in ages.

"Hey bro, what's everyone at SpaceX think of Musk and how he's handling Twitter."

"Oh my God what a shitshow... it's a running joke with everyone here at work.  It's gotten so bad we try not to talk about it."

Everyone else in the room were CS/engineer types who then proceeded to rip into the twitter situation.  I was just more surprised to hear this guy finally say something negative about Musk.  He did bring up one interesting point - he was more sympathetic for Tesla employees as every time Musk causes a stir there's potential for their stock to drop (which it's been doing for about a year... but I think it's also fair to highlight many think that stock is WAY overvalued).

[rmgill]

Considering I worked for the Mouth from the South...all I can say is "eh" grow some skin. 

[NickM]

My office's newsfeed (msn) now calls the company "Elon Musk's Twitter", usually followed by some negative news 

[Murph]

18 hours ago, rmgill said:

Considering I worked for the Mouth from the South...all I can say is "eh" grow some skin. 

I agree.  Gen-Z and Millenials are whiny babies.  None of them could put up with a real working environment where your bosses are @ssholes and demand actual performance, and never, ever, say thanks for the hard work.

[Murph]

I am also laughing very loudly at the entitled cretins at the Bezos Post who are now whining that they are facing layoffs from the fishrap of record.  BOO-HOO!  Learn to code.

[17thfabn]

2 hours ago, Murph said:

I agree.  Gen-Z and Millenials are whiny babies.  None of them could put up with a real working environment where your bosses are @ssholes and demand actual performance, and never, ever, say thanks for the hard work.

Your painting with a very broad brush!

I know plenty of baby boomers, my generation, that are as lazy as any of the prototypical  Gen-Z you are slamming. On the other hand I know plenty of younger people who work hard and are great people.

It isn't fair to slam every one in  two whole generations, Gen-Z & the Millennials. They, like any generation have their lazy and hard workers and everything in between.

[Murph]

50 minutes ago, 17thfabn said:

Your painting with a very broad brush!

I know plenty of baby boomers, my generation, that are as lazy as any of the prototypical  Gen-Z you are slamming. On the other hand I know plenty of younger people who work hard and are great people.

It isn't fair to slam every one in  two whole generations, Gen-Z & the Millennials. They, like any generation have their lazy and hard workers and everything in between.

Ok, fair point.  And yes I know lots of lazy boomers.  However my interactions at work with the younger folks has shown they tend to turn an interesting shade of pale when the word "overtime" gets handed out.   Also I doubt any of them could handle my very first company First Sergeant.  Heck he scared me!  This guy was tough as nails, hard as rocks, and had the combat bling to prove it.  I have seen him reduce troops to tears, and make Lieutenants weak in the knees.  We did not have "stress cards" back in those days.  

[nitflegal]

8 minutes ago, Murph said:

Ok, fair point.  And yes I know lots of lazy boomers.  However my interactions at work with the younger folks has shown they tend to turn an interesting shade of pale when the word "overtime" gets handed out.   Also I doubt any of them could handle my very first company First Sergeant.  Heck he scared me!  This guy was tough as nails, hard as rocks, and had the combat bling to prove it.  I have seen him reduce troops to tears, and make Lieutenants weak in the knees.  We did not have "stress cards" back in those days.  

Everyone has their different experiences but the 82 who work for me run the overtime and workload  with no more bitching than I did at their age.  The one real fundamental difference I see (and I don't know if it's good or bad) is that back in the day my supervisors and managers would clock out at 5 while we stayed and we didn't do more than grumble and make sarcastic jokes.  I'd have a mass exodus of staff if I tried to pull that sh*t with my team or my supervisors or managers did.  I think us older folks didn't expect our management tree to lead be example in the same way.  At least in the civilian world.

[Murph]

8 minutes ago, nitflegal said:

Everyone has their different experiences but the 82 who work for me run the overtime and workload  with no more bitching than I did at their age.  The one real fundamental difference I see (and I don't know if it's good or bad) is that back in the day my supervisors and managers would clock out at 5 while we stayed and we didn't do more than grumble and make sarcastic jokes.  I'd have a mass exodus of staff if I tried to pull that sh*t with my team or my supervisors or managers did.  I think us older folks didn't expect our management tree to lead be example in the same way.  At least in the civilian world.

Good point, I saw the same thing at the Sheriff's Office, I would be there will whenever, and all the Lieutenants, Captains, and upper were gone by 1700.  Most before then.  I always had the attitude of "if my guys are out, so am I" as a general rule.  

[nitflegal]

2 hours ago, Murph said:

Good point, I saw the same thing at the Sheriff's Office, I would be there will whenever, and all the Lieutenants, Captains, and upper were gone by 1700.  Most before then.  I always had the attitude of "if my guys are out, so am I" as a general rule.  

I sometimes wonder if there is a weird chicken and the egg aspect here where the current generation learned from their supervisors what not to do and we taught the millenials to expect it?  All I know is many of my formative years gave me plenty of examples of "when I'm a manager I'm going to do everything the opposite of that jerk XXXX"

[DB]

I think it's a similar thing to the claim that alternate generations swing from outrageous behaviours to conservative ones as they reject their parents' approach to things.

Gives the opportunity to make a different set of mistakes. 

For the US, the greater spread of information about how other (European, specifically) cultures manage the work/life balance will also affect attitudes.

[Rick]

14 hours ago, 17thfabn said:

Your painting with a very broad brush!

I know plenty of baby boomers, my generation, that are as lazy as any of the prototypical  Gen-Z you are slamming. On the other hand I know plenty of younger people who work hard and are great people.

It isn't fair to slam every one in  two whole generations, Gen-Z & the Millennials. They, like any generation have their lazy and hard workers and everything in between.

Overall, I find the lack of moral discretion in younger generations as alarming. The sin of homosexuality is not even thought of and the sin of transgenderism is an acceptable lifestyle. Not to mention the economic acceptance of socialism, an obvious economic failure in real life.

[sunday]

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Edited December 16, 2022 by sunday

[Murph]

Musk kicked off some "alleged journalists" who were doxxing him.  I say good on Elon.  This doxxing crap has got to stop.  Now the libtard journalists are getting a taste of their own medicine, too f'ing bad.