Elon Musk: Elon is city

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Should I step down as head of twitter This poll is closed.
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Blind Rasputin: Nov 25, 2002; Farewell, good Hunter. May you find your worth in the waking world.

People in this thread talking about when Twitter dies and/or when it has its first big outage but I have to think that right now, Twitter has THE biggest target in its back for LOLz hackers and even probably state level hackers. There can�t be a riper target with its pants down right now. And getting hacked right now would just absolutely devastate Twitter, and probably Tesla stock as well as Twitter crashes into a mountain because of it.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:19

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# ? May 28, 2024 01:05

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

im hacking the twitter mainframe now

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:21

Sweaty IT Nerd: Jul 13, 2007

Trust fund dipshit finds a way to step on his own dick

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:21

rafikki: Mar 8, 2008; I see what you did there. (It's pretty easy, since ducks have a field of vision spanning 340 degrees.)

~SMcD

I only use Twitter for following various infosec people to keep up with the industry. Looks like some of them are trying out mastodon and mentioned https://infosec.exchange so I registered there this morning without any issue. I have no idea what the pros and cons are of registering on particular servers are but I have a feed of a few people to scroll through now /shrug

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:23

bobjr: Oct 16, 2012; Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

I wonder who the first celebrity to get mad when someone verifies a fake account of them shilling crypto or something will be

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:33

istewart: Apr 13, 2005; Still contemplating why I didn't register here under a clever pseudonym

Entropic posted:

I think the interesting question is, what is the next shiny jangling thing that will distract Elon and become his new obsession distracing him from Twitter?

He's gonna buy out Pocket Pussy, in a desperate attempt to get cash flow going from that robot project that's otherwise been a dud

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:33

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

someone startup an SA mastodon node so that we can have offsite drama and a schism in a few years, a little work now as an investment toward the promise of big comedy later

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:35

The Hello Machine: Jul 19, 2021; I'm not a real machine, but I am a real Hello-sayer.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1588660685227315200

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:35

Stoatbringer: Sep 15, 2004; naw, you love it you little ho-bot

Robo Reagan posted:

im hacking the twitter mainframe now

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:37

axolotl farmer: May 17, 2007; Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

American hero KenM :patriot:

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:40

PITY BONER: Oct 18, 2021

worm girl posted:

Because people like that often don't climb. They're born on third and eased into executive positions while everybody else breaks their back to make up for their incompetence.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:42

Edwardly: Jun 28, 2011

Stoatbringer posted:

Years ago, back in the early days of computing, idiot bosses decided it would be a good idea to pay developers based on the number of lines of code they wrote.

All of a sudden everything would be written in the most long-winded, bloated manner possible with endless descriptive comments padding everything out.

code:

/**
 * Utility method to sum two numbers and return the result.
 * 
 * For other operations, please see subtractNumbers, multiplyNumbers and divideNumbers.
 *
 * @param A The first number to add
 * @param B The second number to add
 * @returns sum of A and B
 **/

public int addNumbers(int A,
                                          int B) {

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Enter addNumbers with" + A + ", " + B);
  }

  // Super optimisation, don't bother adding if A is 0
  if (A == 0 && B != 0)
  {
     return B;
  }

  // More super optimisation, don't bother adding if B is 0
  if (A != 0 && B == 0)
  {
    return A;
  }

  // Redundant, but just in case
  if (A == 0 && B == 0)
  {
    return 0;
  }

  int sum;

  sum = A;

  sum = sum
                +
                 B;

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Result of adding " + A + " " + B + " is " + sum);
  }

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Exit addNumbers");
  }

}

This doesn't actually return sum. I love it.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:42

Revins: Nov 2, 2007; tune the FM in to static and pretend that its the sea

Lol at elon going around tweeting "$8" at people critical of him like its some kind of sick burn

He's more corncob than man at this point

# ? Nov 5, 2022 18:57

GABA ghoul: Oct 29, 2011

Stoatbringer posted:

code:

/**
 * Utility method to sum two numbers and return the result.
 * 
 * For other operations, please see subtractNumbers, multiplyNumbers and divideNumbers.
 *
 * @param A The first number to add
 * @param B The second number to add
 * @returns sum of A and B
 **/

public int addNumbers(int A,
                                          int B) {

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Enter addNumbers with" + A + ", " + B);
  }

  // Super optimisation, don't bother adding if A is 0
  if (A == 0 && B != 0)
  {
     return B;
  }

  // More super optimisation, don't bother adding if B is 0
  if (A != 0 && B == 0)
  {
    return A;
  }

  // Redundant, but just in case
  if (A == 0 && B == 0)
  {
    return 0;
  }

  int sum;

  sum = A;

  sum = sum
                +
                 B;

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Result of adding " + A + " " + B + " is " + sum);
  }

  if (logger.isDebugEnabled())
  {
    logger.debug("Exit addNumbers");
  }

}

That's actually some decent code. Fast to understand for an unfamiliar person, easy to debug and easy to maintain. Certainly beats obtuse undocumented poo poo like

code:


public IValue Adv(IProvider vp1, IProvider vp2)
{
   return _atp.Execute(vp1.Get(), vp2.Get());
}

What does it do? Nobody knows! The guy who wrote this died in a kickboxing tournament 6 years ago. To find out you gonna have to go on a long and very boring quest through 1000 lines of code

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:03

davecrazy: Nov 25, 2004; I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.

Mastadon reminded me of IRC, where you could join any server and see and talk to anyone on the network.

But they don't really explain that very well, and most people now-a-days have no frame of reference for IRC or how it works so good luck that being a viable explanation.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:07

Azhais: Feb 5, 2007; Switchblade Switcharoo

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/DianeSevenay/status/1588544517157765121

lol that this tweet got a warning, whatever happened to "comedy is now legal"?

Edit: guess warnings don't show up on embeds; click through to see the warning

beer_war posted:

I keep seeing this, but, uh, who reported it?

best I can figure it's based on a Bloomberg article where musk talked about people with fewer than 100 lines of code per month or something

Azhais fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Nov 5, 2022

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:09

CharlestheHammer: Jun 26, 2011; YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

He keeps saying you need to pay 8 dollars to speak, but that�s not how his own system works? You can post without being verified so what is he even trying to say

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:15

Xakura: Jan 10, 2019; A safety-conscious little mouse!

davecrazy posted:

people now-a-days have no frame of reference for IRC or how it works

Slack and Discord are very popular

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:15

RDM: Apr 6, 2009; I LOVE FINLAND AND ESPECIALLY FINLAND'S MILITARY ALLIANCES, GOOGLE FINLAND WORLD WAR 2 FOR MORE INFORMATION SLAVA UKRANI

davecrazy posted:

Mastadon reminded me of IRC, where you could join any server and see and talk to anyone on the network.

But they don't really explain that very well, and most people now-a-days have no frame of reference for IRC or how it works so good luck that being a viable explanation.

I'm so glad I can use irc knowledge again.

No see instead of a company that has a department and procedures your social network is controlled by an admin.

Oh, the admin? It's someone who has three key characteristics - a small amount of money, a huge amount of free time, and a need to have any kind of power. Yes, the best case scenario is this person turns out to be a sex pest. Yes they can spy on you or kick you out.

Every few months the admins, ops, and moderators will have a massive schism and now you have to be in two servers to talk to everyone. Yes, this is inevitable.

Why is this better? It's libertarian, it's not supposed to be better.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:16

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

Sophy Wackles posted:

I�m not sure this is right. He did have an offer to be on the Board after he bought 9% of the company and turned it down. I think bc if he took the seat it would have limited how much of the company he could buy and limited his powers over the company.

Also it�s hard to find info on the actual structure of the deal. Several sources say musk paid for 2/3 of the company and the other 1/3 is debt backed by twitters own assets. However other articles have mentioned some of Musks advisors as equity partners so

Hmmm, yeah, I guess it was Musk that rejected the board seat not the other way around. I am not exactly certain about the sequence of events then, or the possible reason behind it. Maybe acquisition was always the goal.

But the loans thing:
1.$13 billion is in debt financing. This is loans that are owed by twitter, and secured by twitter's assets. If Musk flushes twitter down the toilet and it becomes completely worthless the banks have to say "well poo poo" and eat a loss. But if Elon doesn't want to flush twitter, those loans & interest have to be paid. Thus his freak-out about advertisers and firing everyone.
2. $27 billion was from Musk, in cash. He had to sell tesla shares to afford it, and I think some of the rest is also loans to Elon himself secured by his shares of tesla. Regardless of what happens to twitter, Elon still has to pay back that money.
3. The rest is from other people and is buying minority ownership.

Sophy Wackles posted:

Either way, paying that much for twitter seems like a huge mistake. Especially when your first week is spent making it even less valuable.

Yuuuup.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:17

Kumo: Jul 31, 2004

CharlestheHammer posted:

He keeps saying you need to pay 8 dollars to speak, but that�s not how his own system works? You can post without being verified so what is he even trying to say

I think he�s trying to recoup some money fast by imagining, and not incorrectly, that bluechecks have an investment in the site & like the attention so much they would pay for a subscription- which is just a fancy toll road on a previously free product or service and a usual way these types try to make a quick buck.

His problem was he almost immediately started bargaining against himself in that Stephen King tweet, so everyone saw through the bullshit.

There might have been a way to get bluechecks to pay, with a mind to charge everyone in the future but that opportunity is lost now, maybe forever.

What a stupid time to be alive.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:26

ishikabibble: Jan 21, 2012

beer_war posted:

I keep seeing this, but, uh, who reported it?

https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1586127052767318016

Then you also have

https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:27

Buce: Dec 23, 2005

ishikabibble posted:

https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056

lol

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:29

Dacap: Jul 8, 2008; I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower.

You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.

Did this get posted?

Elon's new plan is to shadowban everyone who doesn't pay the $8

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?s=46&t=nH8SObgHb8DB2SaCCcz5mQ

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:29

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

July 7th, 2023 is the date the sparrow falls out of its nest.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:33

C-Euro: Mar 20, 2010; Soiled Meat

Nelson Mandingo posted:

100% dead. If there was hunger for a right wing social media website Truth Social would have been it. But there isn't.

This was the "concerning" thing to me as the Twitter purchase rumors were swirling (which now seems like a silly thing to have worried about in hindsight). Conservatives couldn't figure out how to build their own social media site, so why not just buy one that's already up and running? As it turns out, the problem is actually that conservatives don't know how to run a social media site. At least, not one that appeals to a wider audience.

Entropic posted:

It�s not possible for a right wing social media site to ever really succeed at a large scale because the right wing social media audience, whatever they might say, doesn�t actually want an all-right-wing space, they want and need the libs to be there to yell at and dunk on. Whenever they try to build a no-libs-allowed clubhouse it quickly falls apart because they have no one there to trigger and triggering the libs is the one thing they actually live for.

This too.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:37

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

Dacap posted:

Did this get posted?

Elon's new plan is to shadowban everyone who doesn't pay the $8

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?s=46&t=nH8SObgHb8DB2SaCCcz5mQ

Thus all 200 million users will be forced to pay $8 a month, thus making Elon a healthy 19 Billion per year. :colbert:

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:42

Deptfordx: Dec 23, 2013

Entropic posted:

It�s not possible for a right wing social media site to ever really succeed at a large scale because the right wing social media audience, whatever they might say, doesn�t actually want an all-right-wing space, they want and need the libs to be there to yell at and dunk on. Whenever they try to build a no-libs-allowed clubhouse it quickly falls apart because they have no one there to trigger and triggering the libs is the one thing they actually live for.

Also, no one but the Mike Lindell's of this world are ever going to hand over a dime in advertising in such a site.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:43

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009; by Fluffdaddy

So it's clear only complete idiots will pay Musk $8 for a checkmark.

This raises the question though, how many chuds will throw money at this to own the libs? Enough to sustain twitter with half employees and no ad revenue?

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:44

hemale in pain: Jun 5, 2010

mobby_6kl posted:

So it's clear only complete idiots will pay Musk $8 for a checkmark.

This raises the question though, how many chuds will throw money at this to own the libs? Enough to sustain twitter with half employees and no ad revenue?

im actually gonna go with a surprisingly low amount

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:45

CharlestheHammer: Jun 26, 2011; YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

I mean since Musk seems to be turning a checkmark into exactly what right wingers think it is I can see many of them paying just to feel important

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:47

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

mobby_6kl posted:

So it's clear only complete idiots will pay Musk $8 for a checkmark.

This raises the question though, how many chuds will throw money at this to own the libs? Enough to sustain twitter with half employees and no ad revenue?

I think a lot of people are going to for a week or two on jokes. "Attention all students school is closed today due to a boiler leak"

$8 for a day home is pretty sweet until they figure out who it was but teenagers don't think that far.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:48

PITY BONER: Oct 18, 2021

I am satisfied that about 90% of the web comics I follow on Twitter are also on Instagram and I don't have to adjust anything to continue seeing what I want to see.

Any visual artist that's on Twitter has already been on Instagram for ages, and they will all probably shift over there in the coming collapse since IG is image oriented and the other social media options aren't.

Dacap posted:

Did this get posted?

Elon's new plan is to shadowban everyone who doesn't pay the $8

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?s=46&t=nH8SObgHb8DB2SaCCcz5mQ

Oh man. I can't wait to click on "trending" and see that some truck-nutz company paid for 70k Russian spambot upvotes to advertise for free, or some rightwing nut doing the same for his idiotic talking point / podcast / truck cab speech.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:48

Outrail: Jan 4, 2009; www.sapphicrobotica.com

hemale in pain posted:

im actually gonna go with a surprisingly low amount

I'm gonna go with an unsurprisingly low amount

It's the same amount you're predicting, but it won't be surprising at all.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:48

Steadiman: Jan 31, 2006; Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

_{silly sevens}

Dacap posted:

Did this get posted?

Elon's new plan is to shadowban everyone who doesn't pay the $8

https://twitter.com/somebadideas/status/1588876465915166721?s=46&t=nH8SObgHb8DB2SaCCcz5mQ

The fact that he's not being laughed off the stage by all these rich investors, for this hilariously flawed logic, says a lot about how smart rich people really are.

hemale in pain posted:

im actually gonna go with a surprisingly low amount

Yeah, just like with their boycots, they only talk about doing things but almost none of them actually follow through because that would require, well...doing something. Why do something when you can whine about being cancelled instead

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:50

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

mobby_6kl posted:

So it's clear only complete idiots will pay Musk $8 for a checkmark.

This raises the question though, how many chuds will throw money at this to own the libs? Enough to sustain twitter with half employees and no ad revenue?

he should've just kept the price at $20 because only idiots are going to pay it and they aren't that price sensitive. there is a class of libowner who would gladly pay $20/mo as a public badge of their dedication to libowning and elon, as the site slowly dries up around them. he might as well milk it for all its worth in these first few months.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:51

pixaal: Jan 8, 2004; All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

Steadiman posted:

The fact that he's not being laughed off the stage by all these rich investors, for this hilariously flawed logic, says a lot about how smart rich people really are.

Well they can always short it why tip your hat to the other investors that aren't as tech savy? Wait this is private isn't it. I don't know they should just turn around and leave heard enough.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:51

priznat: Jul 7, 2009; Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

My annoyance with all this is that twitter was actually somewhat useful for extremely breaking news stories and following various journos and commentators. Now that it is devolved into a toxic hellhole (even moreso, that is) there�s no real replacement. It�s an almost impossible thing to replicate twitter at its peak usefulness with a combination of useful information and free cost.

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:55

kliras: Mar 27, 2021

did anyone find a good way to export dm's? the official feature unsurprisingly sucks. but i also don't feel like leaving the dm's up is great either, even though they probably won't technically be deleted

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DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

Steadiman posted:

The fact that he's not being laughed off the stage by all these rich investors, for this hilariously flawed logic, says a lot about how smart rich people really are.

Yeah, just like with their boycots, they only talk about doing things but almost none of them actually follow through because that would require, well...doing something. Why do something when you can whine about being cancelled instead

worse than doing something... spending money unnecessarily

# ? Nov 5, 2022 19:56

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