@FinnHop I plopped a Christmas present book down on my coffee table next to your photo book, and they have sort of / kind of a similar feel to the cover 😄. Blue on top, sloping green on the bottom.
English
Brian Horblit
2.6K posts
@zemotion given your recent tweets on AI in art, I thought you might like this article “The Overlords Finally Showed Up”:
danielbmarkham.com/the-overlords-…
English
Brian Horblit retweetledi
@internetofshit Right on, Sir. Your tweet about certs for example is so true. It’s like when your kid is a baby and not like when (s)he is 30. Needs constant attention and care.
English
i was a network engineer in a previous life working on some pretty big websites and people would be shocked at the sheer banality and stupidity of how most outages happen
English
idk how this guy thinks the internet works but let me tell you: i have seen many giant websites shit the bed because some hard drive got full and nobody noticed lol
Austen Allred@Austen
People are saying twitter is going to go down as if the way servers stay up is a bunch of infra engineers sitting in the back room pedaling stationary bikes to power the racks
English
After quite a few years of management and strategy and EA and stuff, it’s amazing how some basic tech things remain at the tip of your brain. Like using vi and knowing to type env into the shell to check environment variables. Like riding a bike.
English
@NGrossman81 @pwnallthethings Isn’t there an old saying along the lines of never ascribe to malice what can be explained more simply as stupidity?
English
I’m going Hanlon’s Razor on this one. Unless some evidence emerges that proves otherwise—and there currently isn’t any—Elon is really trying to make Twitter succeed, both as a business and as a communication platform, and this is the best he can do.
nilay patel@reckless
It is incredible how many smart people are quietly whispering that Elon has to be destroying Twitter on purpose
English
@CaseyNewton @pwnallthethings At this point I’d not be stunned if they canned the remaining employees and replaced them with jars of peanut butter.
English
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
English
Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others
English
Brian Horblit retweetledi
Jubilation in Kherson where Ukrainians have poured into the newly liberated streets after almost nine months of Russian occupation.
English
@rickasaurus LOL after being a manager/SNR director or such a few times I’d say having time to manage and write write code means working 60+ hours a week.
English
@pwnallthethings My small sample size of friends DO hate musk. A couple left when he announced he was buying Twitter.
English
@rickasaurus School-aged kids are disease vectors on steroids. After my kids grew up and moved out … TA DA never get sick!
Well, until COVID.
English
@IanColdwater @rickasaurus Yeah there has to be something other than Mastodon.
English
Brian Horblit retweetledi
English
@LivingDreamBrew I thought I would mention that you emails fail domain authentication. You might want to chat with your email provider. Some email programs show a scary warning.
Pic attached.
English
I hope to keep using this ‘65 band-aid box until I kick the bucket.
English