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Wait, this isn’t dead yet?
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@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
In more "Because Fuck You, That's Why" news, Twitter takes the username @X away from a guy who has had it since 2007.
if you want to own something you do online, social media is doing it wrong
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@boomzilla said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
One of my favorite parts of Vernor Vinge's Deepness in the Sky was that bits that dealt with "code archaeology" or whatever he called it, and how a character got aheady by using his knowledge of code that was hundreds of years old.
I liked that book, but I liked A Fire Upon The Deep more. The galactic-forum posts were fun -- especially with that one alien who completely missed what everyone was talking about, and thought that it was trivial to deal with "hexapods." (When the real issue was a rogue god-AI.) IIRC, one of the forum's problems was that on the more distant messages, everything was a translation-of-a-translation-of-a-translation.
I need to go and see if Vinge has written anything else in the Zones of Thought universe.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I liked that book, but I liked A Fire Upon The Deep more.
My favorite tends to be whichever one I read last.
I need to go and see if Vinge has written anything else in the Zones of Thought universe.
There are several sequels to A Fire Upon the Deep. Not nearly as good as the original. It mostly follows what happened after. There's also a short story where somehow a human has a pet "dog" on a world in the slow zone.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@topspin the difference between him and Bond villains is that Bond Villains have a point to what they're doing while Elon just does seems to do whatever occurs to him today.
I don't think Elon has a white Persian cat either.
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@PotatoEngineer said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
that one alien who completely missed what everyone was talking about, and thought that it was trivial
The "Things that remind you of WTDWTF members" thread is
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I don’t even have a drivers licence, let alone own a car
I'm not sure the latter implies the former, but that was hardly your point.
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@Zecc said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I don’t even have a drivers licence, let alone own a car
I'm not sure the latter implies the former, but that was hardly your point.
Judging by the drivers around here, I’d rather assume the former implies not the latter.
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@Zecc well, it was more that I was trying to convey my complete and total lack of car experience - it's not like I learned to drive and never progressed to car ownership given that I live in an urban area with no parking. I never progressed to having a licence, and a car is so distant a concept it's unreal.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
a car is so distant a concept it's unreal.
Maybe we could explain it to you using a computer analogy?
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@Zerosquare said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
a car is so distant a concept it's unreal.
Maybe we could explain it to you using a computer analogy?
Or "a car is like a bus that's never late to depart, goes exactly where you want it to, and only has wankers you explicitly want in it inside"
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@izzion said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Zerosquare said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
a car is so distant a concept it's unreal.
Maybe we could explain it to you using a computer analogy?
Or "a car is like a bus that's never late to depart, goes exactly where you want it to, and only has wankers you explicitly want in it inside"
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@PleegWat that’s the mute function, and really isn’t an adequate replacement because it doesn’t stop them harassing you if you block them.
wasn't tweeter block bypassed by simply logging out and viewing the user that blocked you?
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@sockpuppet7 previously, yes, but that’s not really the point of the exercise. It becomes more about if you block someone, you don’t see their content, their follows don’t get selected for your discovery etc.
Twitter visibly changed after I blocked Elon because it also meant I didn’t get shown as much nonsense by the algorithm.
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@sockpuppet7 That's an advanced technique only known by hackers.
Normies need to borrow someone else's phone.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Twitter visibly changed after I blocked Elon because it also meant I didn’t get shown as much nonsense by the algorithm.
It didn't make as much difference for me, but that was because I blocked him longer ago.
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@dkf oh, i was in the wave of Elon is unblocking himself from all accounts. So I had to reblock him, it was a noticeable shift.
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“In retrospect, the whole Sacramento shutdown was a mistake,” Musk would admit in March 2023. “I was told we had redundancy across our data centers. What I wasn’t told was that we had
70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento.
And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it.”
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@Gern_Blaanston That's far-fetched even for a
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Somewhere I read that there is no full text search on a twatter competitor product (Threads?). But there, some searches are effectively blocked. E.g. when you want to search for coronavirus, vaccination, etc. But of course (because 'murican prudishness) sex etc., are blocked too.
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@The_Quiet_One said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Gern_Blaanston That's far-fetched even for a
Knowing Elon Musk, it is almost certainly an exaggeration. But, even if the actual number is a small fraction of that, it's still a lot of
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@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@The_Quiet_One said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Gern_Blaanston That's far-fetched even for a
Knowing Elon Musk, it is almost certainly an exaggeration. But, even if the actual number is a small fraction of that, it's still a lot of
I don't know anything about Sacramento, but I know some companies run automatic searches for swearwords in the code, so maybe lots of that are replacement for the f-word? With the sacramento-based hostnames in the middle, of course.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Knowing Elon Musk, it is almost certainly an exaggeration.
Maybe he searched for "Sacramento" in their VCS and that returned 70k hits. Nevermind that all of them are in the same config file, just that that one's gone through 70k commits...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Gern_Blaanston said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@The_Quiet_One said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Gern_Blaanston That's far-fetched even for a
Knowing Elon Musk, it is almost certainly an exaggeration. But, even if the actual number is a small fraction of that, it's still a lot of
I don't know anything about Sacramento, but I know some companies run automatic searches for swearwords in the code, so maybe lots of that are replacement for the f-word? With the sacramento-based hostnames in the middle, of course.
Not Sacramento, but ...
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
maybe lots of that are replacement for the f-word?
: If you want to use a city name instead of a swear word, the appropriate one is Boston.
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@Zerosquare said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
maybe lots of that are replacement for the f-word?
: If you want to use a city name instead of a swear word, the appropriate one is Boston.
That depends on the locale. It can be also Brussel, Birmingham, Brno, Berlin, Bydgoszcz, Bratislava, ....
... hey, I am starting to see a pattern
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Rumour is the Melon Man is going to make Twitter paid-only, though at a lower rate than the infamous $8.
He says it's to combat bots, but I wouldn't in any way put it past him to do it to ensure he has card details on file for people so he can turn it into the dream platform he's always wanted.
Mastodon and Bluesky have both been trending this evening, in no surprises to anyone.
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@Arantor that's wild. Since most users of XxX_Twitter_XxX are free users, that's going to be a mass exodus.
But at least he has an existing userbase. Does anyone remember app.net, the Twitter clone that cost $25? It never made it off the launch pad. I vaguely recall jokes of "it's like Twitter, but it also lets me prove that I have $25" running around.
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@PotatoEngineer yes he has an existing userbase, but I foresee this happening in two waves.
First to go will be the freebie accounts who just won't pay for this. The second wave will be the bluetix folks who suddenly realise their engagement is gone because of the first wave.
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@Zerosquare said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
maybe lots of that are replacement for the f-word?
: If you want to use a city name instead of a swear word, the appropriate one is Boston.
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I’m kind of interested in seeing how this one plays out. Will ot act as a filter or just incur him a million chargebacks a day.
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@DogsB it’s not about the bots, it never was.
Here is someone who has stated a long term goal of making a do-everything platform, including handling payments. Making it subscription based would get a number of credit cards on file to make that easier to make happen.
Problem is, it’s going to cause a rapid exit for many (myself included)
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the new ad format also doesn't disclose who is behind the ad or that it is even an advertisement at all.
Looks like Twizzer is the next in line aiming for a massive EU fine.
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@topspin that stupid new format for the oneboxes for links suddenly makes more sense
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@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@topspin that stupid new format for the oneboxes for links suddenly makes more sense
Ditto the removal of the count of likes, retweets etc.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@topspin that stupid new format for the oneboxes for links suddenly makes more sense
Ditto the removal of the count of likes, retweets etc.
Is this still in A/B testing mode? I still see that stuff:
Also, I never see ads on Twitter:
Maybe these new anonymous ads (how does that even make sense?) are still being rolled out, too?
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@boomzilla said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
Maybe these new anonymous ads (how does that even make sense?) are still being rolled out, too?
Yeah - on the app I don't see the new format ads. They're blocked on desktop.
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@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
on the app
Oh, right. I forgot that people use that. Obviously they have a lot more control there over what you see.
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@boomzilla they’re still there for now but St Elon has indicated he wants them gone.
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X is going to start charging $1 annually for new unverified accounts from NZ and the Philippines.
This is, by their own words to stop bot activity, despite the fact that bots are more prevalent than ever.
This of course has nothing to do with normalising getting credit card details into the platform for making it a payment platform.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
This is, by their own words to stop bot activity, despite the fact that bots are more prevalent than ever.
Despite? Wouldn't that explain why they're doing it?
Not that I think it will work.
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@boomzilla every step they’ve taken so far “to reduce bots” has encouraged them. I half expect this will encourage the bot folks to appear more legitimate for cheap, like previous steps have done.
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I mean, we all knew this was the end game, but I don’t see it that by this time next year people will be all-in on the financial life on Twitter.
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@Arantor if he could provide KYC and even basic banking for 1% of his users he would have a license to print money. Pity everything he’s done with the platform doesn’t lend him much credibility.
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@DogsB said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@Arantor if he could provide KYC and even basic banking for 1% of his users he would have a license to print money. Pity everything he’s ever done
with the platformdoesn’t lend him much credibility.
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I’m faintly surprised that anyone is prepared to give him a licence to handle money like that, since the article’s wording suggests he already has some of the banking type licenses in place.
So by that, someone trusts him enough to actually be a bank-ish institution. Fuck knows who though.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I mean, we all knew this was the end game, but I don’t see it that by this time next year people will be all-in on the financial life on Twitter.
Would have also accepted the Nope thread.
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@Arantor said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
I mean, we all knew this was the end game, but I don’t see it that by this time next year people will be all-in on the financial life on Twitter.
So back in the day he had his
x.com
finance thing, which eventually merged with Paypal. In typical Silly Valley disruptors-don't-give-a-shit fashion, Paypal was always sketchy as fuck, acting like a bank when they wanted it to be and not-a-bank when they didn't, randomly freezing your assets for unknown reasons, etc. Well, at least they used to be like that a decade or so ago, no idea if they got any better either in practice or de jure.Now he buys twitter, which has nothing at all to do with finance, renames it to X, and somehow believes this magically means people will use this crap instead of a bank?
Besides the obvious stuff from a certain picture, what the hell is he smoking?