So the analogy becomes, the new boss sold all the fire extinguishers and also placed a short temporary ban on cooking in the building. But eventually people are going to start turning on stoves again… and then…
Those things aren't going to fail any sooner than they would have anyways, but they're going to fail a lot harder due to the loss of institutional knowledge.
Said no-one in the entire world except a hand-full of Hollywood studio owners.
That bot shouldn't have existed in the first place, but I know that that falls under "just world fallacy" and is a naive thought.
Put another way: being unable keep a little bot running, one that keeps an entire industry happy, doesn't bode well for other components of the service.
It seems self-evident that the bot was considered low priority, since it isn’t working anymore. But nobody is disputing that: they’re saying that the fact that it is low priority does not bode well.
If it was a prerequisite to land $100M ARR from all the media properties’ marketing budgets to advertise the multi-billion dollar pipelines of the movie and entertainment industry, that lil’ bot was the gate to $11,415 per hour of revenue at risk if its uptime failed to sufficiently please the attorneys and auditors from those customers.
You may not like it, but having a bot do that probably saves a lot of legal hassle.
> (2) No effect on intellectual property law
> Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.
If section 230 from the CDA of 1996 provided immunity from copyright claims, there would be no reason to include procedural requirements for processing claims in the DMCA of 1998.
Many jurisdictions take an even harsher line when it comes to being complicit in intellectual property abuse. We saw this famously with The Pirate Bay, Napster etc.
Is that true? I thought one of Elon’s big pushes was launching the whole Blue Tick subscription thing. That doesn’t feel like a small feature.
It might not be small, but it's not exactly huge.
They already had billing integration, even if you're accessing it via a new route, and they already had a boolean on your account.
Like I said, not small, but not exactly huge either.
Suddenly that simple change had the potential for catastrophic consequences.
I’m not saying it’s going to bring the site down tomorrow but that one feature touches on a lot of services.
Okay, so two booleans, and checks of those booleans in a couple of algorithms.
This still isn't a huge change, it's not completely new functionality. Once again, not saying it's small, but it definitely isn't huge.
Plus I really don’t think you can compare B2B payments for premium API access to end user payments. Not least because they aren’t going to be going the same route: a huge number of them will be via Apple or Google in-app purchasing. Ask anyone who works with those systems, it isn’t a quick plug and play job.
In general though, a new subscription tier, feed algorithm changes, UI changes… if these aren’t, what is a big change in your book?
When was the last major new feature? The site has always seemed pretty stagnant.
Whether that will spell disaster when a fire occurs depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin with and whether the boss can buy new, better fire extinguishers to replace some of the ones they got rid of before there's a fire.
If we're deep-diving it'd be closer to say that he rolled in and sold 80% of the stuff, largely sight-unseen, and if a fire breaks out he'll find out how much of that stuff was fire extinguishers.
As an SRE I would have been shocked if Twitter failed catastrophically (well moreso than broadly disabling authentication) in short order. However failure is pretty much inevitable at this point given the damage that E-Lon is actively doing.
Whatever. Twitter and Musk deserve each other.
I'm pretty sure there will be no failure at all, and Twitter will work just fine.
Not the end of the site by any means but cracks are showing.
I meant that there will be no catastrophic failure that will permanently (or even for a few days) stop Twitter from working at all.
everyone's DMs leak, all the anonymous accounts have their identity revealed, and all Twitter's clients (advertisers) have their bank account info made public.
Let's not forget that whatever code monkeys are left are now personally liable for running afoul of the FTC. Whatever motivation they may have now will run out pretty damn quick once they stop getting paid.
Generally speaking prosecutors want to target the highest level individuals responsible for directing such activity in the first place, not low level implementers who have little say one way or the other.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/11/musks-lawyer-tells-twitter...
Also, why are you (and many others here) refer to Musk as "E-Lon"? Is it supposed to be a derogatory nickname?
Even if you outsource it you'll still need people within your company to manage your service provider. At one company I worked for they got all of their outsourced HR+payroll for free (indefinitely) because the provider (Gevity) consistently fucked up everything they touched. This was at a company of like thirty people.
If you're suggesting Twitter can simply outsource payroll, sure. But you do that before you fire your whole payroll department. You still need people to handle the transition.
Someone purchased some land for $1. Built a house for say $100. And now spends $100,000 a year making it the perfect place to rent, receiving $100,000 a year in rent.
Someone comes along and borrows $1m to buy that house. They feel ripped off but eventually are force to go ahead with the purchase. As a result they have to pay $100,000 a year in interest. They need this thing to be profitable!
To do this they need to cut back on the $100,000 a year spent. They decide go go in quickly and so email all the services saying "go hard or go home". So the plumbers, tradie, cleaners etc that don't like it leave.
As a side hustle also charge visitors to the house $9 to be allowed to wear their bowtie they used to wear for free.
Some of the people do maintenance jobs and improvements. They keep the termites out, fix subsidence issues, and so on.
And the house didn't fall down within 3 weeks of it being purchased.