Was the brother's name anything other than DICK?
It was but I didn't linger at the display long enough to remember it or to understand how and why Dick was the one who got to put his name on it. Beyond the obvious fact that he's a Dick.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:12 (eight months ago) link
Leaving out the important information that Dick’s full name was Dick Stack
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Sunday, 13 August 2023 15:52 (eight months ago) link
its really funny to me that on every single web page or app a single "X" denotes "click here to close" whereas on Twitter it now directs you to the home page
― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 02:54 (eight months ago) link
like I was on it and couldn't figure out where the home button was because 20 years of internet usage has conditioned me to look past the big X
― frogbs, Monday, 14 August 2023 02:56 (eight months ago) link
same esp since I use dark mode on everything, my eyes just breeze past the white-x-on-black-icon on my bookmarks bar
it's good though, it means I'm not always clicking on it
― Roz, Monday, 14 August 2023 08:09 (eight months ago) link
I am on a cheap Huawei phone and just realised that the old twitter logo should've been replaced by now (?)
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 August 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
Libertarian Party of New Hampshire put up this post which AFAICT is straight-up encouraging a spree shooting massacre in congresshttps://i.postimg.cc/63z9xh4D/Screenshot-20230814-162858.jpgit's still up there 17 hours later, I do have to wonder how many seconds it would be up if it were a left winger posting the same and how quickly the feds would be round their house.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 14 August 2023 15:35 (eight months ago) link
Twitter/X is throttling link clicks to the @nytimes website by causing a 5 second delay during the redirect. pic.twitter.com/HCTN99McNy— Max Woolf (@minimaxir) August 15, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 15:33 (eight months ago) link
I love the history of petty bullshit like this, like the fact that Instagram links have never created a nice image "card" in tweets purely because they are owned by Facebook
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
it's like the guelphs and the ghibbelines, in fact it probably *is* them [ /lyndon larouche ]
― mark s, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 18:25 (eight months ago) link
TweetDeck is dead for non-payers now.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
Seriously, how can the destruction of this platform be anything but intentional?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 15 August 2023 23:01 (eight months ago) link
Booooooo, they finally turned off my TweetDeck. Well, whatever, I'll post less.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 01:14 (eight months ago) link
Apparently he is now floating getting rid of block and only having mute. Terrible idea.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:34 (eight months ago) link
Why do this??
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:43 (eight months ago) link
Free speech!
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:45 (eight months ago) link
Found myself the other day thinking Twitter, is that still there? Probably a death-knell when non-users start wondering if your business even exists any more!
― there's no such thing as a winnable volume war (Matt #2), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:49 (eight months ago) link
That's how I think about Threads.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 16:52 (eight months ago) link
Apart from all the other dumb reasons to rebrand Twitter as X, I feel like it's frayed whatever lingering attachment I have to the app. Twitter was a place where I used to have fun, who knows what the fuck X is.
― jaymc, Friday, 18 August 2023 17:09 (eight months ago) link
I accidentally retweeted something the other day and found I couldn’t undo retweet. Don’t know if it’s just an issue with my phone app but I can’t be bothered to log in on desktop to check - either way, it’s just one more thing that no longer works on this stupid site
― Roz, Friday, 18 August 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link
i open threads multiple times a day and can't say it's a very engaging experience, but I should maybe hunt down more people to follow. problem is I liked a lot of the people I followed on Twitter and it doesn't seem that most of them have migrated elsewhere.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 18 August 2023 17:21 (eight months ago) link
Elon Musk has said large block lists have been a resource drain for Twitter, because they – for some reason – significantly increase their server costs. Elon has asked that you don’t block people in an effort to save Twitter expenses. If you block lots of ppl, it costs Musk $$$— LeGate (@williamlegate) March 9, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 17:31 (eight months ago) link
I'm still kinda using fka twitter out of habit, because I'm generally not seeing a lot of garbage (I really only follow musicians), and because at least a few of the regular posters that I follow are still using it. Kinda wish I could fully quit it out of principle but it's not totally unusable for me yet.
No interest in Threads, bluesky seems fine in concept but right now there's basically nothing of interest there.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 18 August 2023 17:35 (eight months ago) link
What are you talking about, I'm there, ergo it is of interest uh wait hold on.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 August 2023 17:36 (eight months ago) link
I heard a lot of people are calling it ex now
― Stevo, Friday, 18 August 2023 17:39 (eight months ago) link
I could only talk to these people if irony were dripping off of these xs
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 17:52 (eight months ago) link
jfc the contract between what's in my "following" feed and the "For you" one is insane! like why would any algorithm feed me this crap?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:08 (eight months ago) link
*Contrast not contract
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
there's an algorithmic list of things it thinks you like. on mobile it's under...
Settings and Support > Settings and Privacy > Privacy and Safety > Content you see > Interests
and is often laughably inaccurate. i find going through that once in a while helps.
still gives me a fuckton of articles about Arsenal though. just them, no other teams.
― koogs, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:23 (eight months ago) link
admittedly I still go on every now and then because some genuinely amusing things are happening, like right now a bunch of people are getting themselves banned by claiming the "free speech absolutist" Babylon Bee guy is a pedophile and human trafficker. idk the "dying forums" vibe is kinda fun
but yeah it's just unusable now, the timeline's all fucked up and the recommendation algo is now shit. as I've said Twitter's one biggest strength I thought was for following sports, now it's real shitty at that. like something that happened in the 3rd inning will pop up on my timeline, then I'll put the game on and find it's already in the 7th. you click on too many Brewers vs. Orioles updates and suddenly it thinks you're a fan of both teams and shows you a bunch of Orioles updaets even weeks later. feel like old Twitter actually figured this stuff out but it just seems to get notably worse here every week.
― frogbs, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:33 (eight months ago) link
lol Those interests are so specific.
Am I interested in Sanda Bullock? Not really.Am I interested in ramen? I don't know. Maybe?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:34 (eight months ago) link
i have four different The Walking Dead entries
― koogs, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:39 (eight months ago) link
Top tip! Things I’m supposed to be interested in beginning with H: Handstands, Hard Rock,Hip-Hop, His Dark Materials, Hungarian Grand Prix, Holby City, Historic Drama and Horror films.
May need a bit of culling.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:41 (eight months ago) link
Confirmed: Yes, Apple and Google require social media apps to have a block feature:From Apple App Store guidelines:"The ability to block abusive users from the service."So, X/Twitter should not be able to remove the block feature.— scott budman (@scottbudman) August 18, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:43 (eight months ago) link
Yet another thing that *should* get dialled back.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:49 (eight months ago) link
That "server costs" story seems like utter bullshit.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 18 August 2023 18:51 (eight months ago) link
A lot of ppl saying their goodbyes tho'
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 18 August 2023 18:54 (eight months ago) link
My immediate impression of that story was that it was obviously designed to get X users to use the block feature even more extensively, because who in their right mind would respond positively to a plea to help one of the world's richest humans 'limit his server costs' by voluntarily denying themselves the ability to block abusive or annoying content?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:06 (eight months ago) link
I think some ex-Twitter employees have confirmed this is the case actually, I think the way block lists are set up they actually do have to make a bunch of server calls so apparently users with large block lists do use a lot of resources. my impression was it's just old code that needs to be refactored, sadly Elon fired everyone
― frogbs, Friday, 18 August 2023 19:16 (eight months ago) link
yeah seems like particularly paired with the algo feed blocklists cld have a lot of overhead
― lag∞n, Friday, 18 August 2023 19:19 (eight months ago) link
apparently users with large block lists do use a lot of resources
could easily be true; the crazy bullshit part is responding to an internal management issue by making a public plea for users to help out the poor multi-billionaire save a few million in annual costs
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:24 (eight months ago) link
users with large block lists are basically killing the planet is what I hear
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:29 (eight months ago) link
I mean I'm a web dev myself and can think of some similar issues in our system, not uncommon for large lists of things to have to be iterated over and potentially have to make a database call. and yes refactoring this shit can take forever. that is why you don't mind being overstaffed as a software company, because this shit can easily cascade and one bad process can fuck with so much on the other end, in fact you can see this happening right now with Twitter in real time
― frogbs, Friday, 18 August 2023 19:32 (eight months ago) link
Perhaps he'll discover that people who post are using too many resources, and shut down posting altogether.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:43 (eight months ago) link
Bro when u block ppl it costs Elon money please bro think of the Elon money, it's so sad sitting there blocking people when it could be sending rich people to Mars
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 18 August 2023 19:49 (eight months ago) link
Guys, shame on u, my man can't even afford to pay his rent
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 August 2023 20:19 (eight months ago) link
(for his apartment on Mars)
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Friday, 18 August 2023 20:34 (eight months ago) link
elon always seems to choose the worst, most unnecessary solution to any issue that gets brought to his attention
― c u (crüt), Friday, 18 August 2023 20:53 (eight months ago) link
"Elon, we're almost out of coffee..."
"Interesting. Perhaps we can ban employees from desiring coffee in the first place. Put the engineers on designing shock collars to zap our coders whenever their energy sags!"
"Or we could just make more..."
"Disrupting means creating new solutions, not relying on old ideas."
"But those shock collars will cost us millions!"
"Ah, yes, but think of the thousands we will save on coffee!"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 August 2023 21:02 (eight months ago) link
Incredible logic pic.twitter.com/9r2eGSQkSZ— coolpinp (@coolp1np) August 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 19 August 2023 11:23 (eight months ago) link