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Posts by hittitezombie
135 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Feb 2019
Microsoft to offer unlimited time off for US staff
Third-party Twitter apps stopped dead with no explanation from El Musko
Re: Twitter is a pretty small ‘app’
The complexity in Twitter code would come from scalability to hundreds of millions of users and making sure those people get their feed within the second someone they follow post a message.
That's no small feat, and Musk is too stupid to understand this.
Going around randomly shutting down server racks works for a while due to redundancy and fault tolerance of the current Twitter design but as he continues to cut people and servers down, Twitter's reliability will get a lot worse.
This is one of the reasons why he's also cutting down on functionality, to spare server capacity.
Re: Too big to fail?
People have been able to deal with more complicated stuff. All you need to know to use Mastodon is "pick a server and create an account". Accounts are transferrable between servers and even that's quite easy to do.
How Fediverse will solve fake users is an unknown, I expect that to be a problem for a long time, but most people already understand john.wick@google.com and john.wick@yahoo.com can be different people.
Re: who pays for the API
About 0.01% of the Twitter users create over 90% of the content that actually matters. Super-users tend to use more specific applications to manage their online presence. The API cull basically killed all of these tools.
What will happen is the content creators will eventually show the finger and move onto better platforms, and people will eventually follow. What will be remaining is the 'absolute free speech' far-right American nutters shouting to each other and Trump Social and Parler etc. shows that is not a winning plan since the amount of angry far-right American nutters is even smaller than the super content creators...
Twitter starts auction to flip the bird, furniture, pizza ovens, gadgets galore
Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry
Sometimes the boss also cooperates
Early 2000s I was working on a satellite office of a corporation. We had plenty of lab servers and PCs only used approx 10 mins a day each, each having a particular version of our software being tested.
So, Me and my boss ran Seti@Home on all servers and workstations overnight. No one cared about heating/electricity costs. We ranked up rapidly in the UK lists at least, definitely into the first 100, but we didn't expend it to the whole company... I even had an SSI cluster of Seti@Home at some point, the PCs would reboot to the CD overnight and at 8AM they would reboot back to WinNT / Win2k / Linux.
Elon Musk to step down as Twitter CEO: Help us pick his replacement
IBM and Maersk to shut down TradeLens supply chain platform
There's no place like GNOME: Project hits 25, going on 43
Re: Plus ca change - lentement
Latest version of GTK will tidy up the UI significantly.
You'll be allowed one button on the whole screen, one mouse button that works, and if you click on it it will tell you not to do it again.
And then the GNOME project will have had achieved their usability target.
BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
When the expert speaker at an NFT tech panel goes rogue
Blockchain powered stock market rebuild started in 2017 delayed again
Re: CHESS replacement delay
Interviewer: "We see that there's a gap in your CV for three years, can you explain this?"
Programmer: "I was.. I was.... I WAS IN PRISON! Yes! I definitely wasn't working on a blockchain project, no no no, whoever saw me committing code to that repository is a liar and I'm ready to protect my honour to the death!"
SAP continues to support Russian customers
Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'
Re: Everyone knew this
> you have to pay at that point if you were stupid enough to download/install a version you didn't have a license for.
The lack of DBAs with a clue contributed to this. Your DB is running slow, the 'DBA' googles, and runs AWR report. Bang, now you're liable for a pair of licenses for diagnostic and tuning packs per CPU which are not exactly cheap.
Re: I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
> Oracle DB (or at least our DBAs) still insist on using X being available for the installer.
Your DBA needs to read the installation manual. Silent install w/o X being available is a thing for decades. You might require the libraries but not have it running.
Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
31-year-old piece of hardware not working very well: Hubble telescope back in safe mode over 'synchronization issues'
Re: "servicing the HST is no longer viable"...
For the price of the maintenance trips we could have built a new Hubble each time and launch it with a cheaper launch vehicle.A Three-letter-agency gifted NASA a bunch of mirrors perfectly sized for a Hubble and Hubble itself (size and build details) comes from NRO's optical earth observation satellites.
James Webb telescope is not a replacement for Hubble, wrong frequency and will not live as long as Hubble.