• Curious Canid@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    When you do something abysmally stupid, then have to walk it back, not saying anything is a lot safer than trying to explain.

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      I don’t know though. I’d find a certain amount of entertainment in watching him ummm and stutter his way through the explanation.

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      2 years ago

      I’m in Canada and can see a tweet IF it is directly linked. If you click on the person’s feed it says “there’s a problem”. So it is not as useless as before but still is for any sort of emergency or critical news dissemination.

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      2 years ago

      Fritter works by scraping the twitter website, so it should be working. The only issue is however that the website changed a lot so I guess the scraping strategies don’t work as well now.

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    2 years ago

    They actually likely did this due to SEO. Google was allegedly in the process of removing tweets from the search index because they weren’t accessible. This happens automatically for most sites.

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        I guarantee you whoever pushed this to prod knew exactly what was going to happen, but the super genius(🤮) in charge is always right and must never be questioned.

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          Does anyone else think a lot about the incredible irony of western freedom-loving democracies being fine and dandy with the fact that nearly 100% of workplaces are top-down dictatorships? Even when you’re “given” freedom to act independently, it’s always predicated upon your decisions and actions aligning with the wishes of your superiors. The second that isn’t the case, you get your marching orders, and you can either comply or fuck off.

          It would be one thing if employment were “optional” to some degree, or there were always more jobs than people to do them, but so many people are one missed paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness, you basically have no choice but to grin and bear it.

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      2 years ago

      How does Pinterest get around this then? They pollute image searches like crazy, and require you to login to see anything. At least they did, I blocked them from searches so maybe it’s different now.

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        They must have changed their paywall behavior, I just went and was able to see every image I clicked on.

        The login popup appears after a few pages but you can just exit out and keep viewing. Google should be able to index the pages without access issues

        Maybe that previous aggressive login screen killed their SEO before, I see much less pinterest images than I used to years ago

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          it 100% did, google removed over half the twitter links on its index due to dead links/login requirements, which if kept like that would basically kill all Twitter traffic since most traffic comes from search engines

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        Easy - detect if you’re getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.

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            Ever heard of https://12ft.io/ ? It allows you to bypass alot of pay walls by basically pretending to be a search engine trying to index a website. For SEO reasons a lot of pay walled sites allow search engines to access the whole article to index. 12ft.io leverages this to show you whole articles behind paywalls. This is something you could also achieve by spoofing the User-Agent. It would probably work for things like Pinterest without an account as well, but that’s something I have never tried (since I have no interest in the cancer that is Pinterest).

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    2 years ago

    This is hilarious. You don’t change your mind about a new policy unless it was absolutely terrible and threatened your business. I can’t see twitter surviving much longer; how are they even going to make money?

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      I saw one reporter describe it as if Costco decided to make every checkout “10 items or less.”

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        But he’s a deadbeat who doesn’t pay his bills like Trump. He’s squatting sand isn’t paying rent, so there’s no way he’s using his own money for that

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          Plus, people should really understand how someone being a billionaire works. They don’t have billions of dollars sitting in a bank account somewhere.

          They leverage their investments to take out short term loans or the like against their invested capital.

          Musk is a billionaire on paper. Like most. His wealth is represented by his ownership shares of Tesla, speculation on the valuation of space x and solar city.

          He’s not selling his interests or shares in Tesla to buy things here. He’s leveraging them.

          Similar to how you can have your house paid off, and then get a new mortgage against your house for an injection of capital. You’re leveraging the equity you have in your home. Which is based on the current perceived value of your home in the current market.

          If the market changes drastically, so does the amount you can leaverage.

          TL;DR; he does not have cash sitting around he can burn through to actually pay bills, and he’s absolutely not going to pay his Google cloud hosting bill with his Tesla shares unless absolutely forced to (at which point he’d probably just sell Twitter).

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉@lemmy.world
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    These companies know that the power is with the people. We just need regulars who are not tech educated to get themselves educated and see how the power shifts from these companies to FOSS and decentralized platforms.

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      You’re talking about an issue humanity has had since forever, getting people to do what is best for their own interests. In business they actually needed to create the concept of a union just so that people would organize in a way to help all workers. Without that force driving them together what you get is the Reddit 48hr blackout. People can’t stop using the service long enough to invoke actual change because their addiction to Reddit was too high.

      This rollback of login requirements was because Google stopped indexing them. The only power the people had in the Twitter situation was being the consumers of Google who were being directed away from Twitter.

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        It’s a problem of collective consciousness, the majority of humanity are about 30-100 years behind the bleeding edge of education and comprehension. It takes a long time to bring all those people up to speed. There’s a reason they say “Science advances one funeral at a time.”

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    Tech giants fighting each other.

    Interesting to see how they have all managed a system with each other that is so hard to switch around.

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      Based on how this was (apparently?) an automatic response by the Google search algorithm, seems more like a case of:

      Twitter: ”You took everything from me!”

      Google: ”I don’t even know who you are”

      Probably coulda just like… emailed someone at Google and asked before making the switch.

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    So trying out changes to a platform isn’t a bad thing and can lead to a lot of good optimization, but usually you don’t just push them onto the entire user base without testing/marketing research to try and anticipate their effects.

    How exactly do these changes make it to production without being evaluated? I know blame is mostly on Musk here but do the software devs really never stand up and say “we’ll look into it and get back to you in a few weeks”?

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      The only devs left are those whose visas are tied to employment, so they can’t piss of the management or they get deported.