At the end of the day, Twitter really is the friends we made along the way. There are really good people here, and I appreciate every single one of you. Thank you for being you and being here with me 💜
Happy birthday to Phrack! The first issue of this ezine was released Nov 17, 1985. Get a glimpse into hacker culture of the 90s in one of my favorite "Phrack Loopback" editions from 1997, where the Phrack Staff respond to emails from the peanut gallery :) http://phrack.org/issues/51/2.html#article…
I actually think you can explain a lot of the reactionary turn among VC types and their railing against the “laptop class” in these terms: they have to deal with a workforce that has relatively high amount of leverage over them and knows it, and they fucking hate it.
Cons don't seem to understand that they're quitting precisely because they can easily find a similar job working for somebody who isn't a psychopathic fraudster
Because the more we speak, the more we learn from each other, the more diverse we become, the more intersectional our lines of solidarity, the more the ants realize they can absolutely trounce the grasshoppers, a fact the grasshoppers have known since time immemorial.
i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for http://neopets.com on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”
the actual answer was that I had been doing work locally in devops circles in the Midwest, which wasn't on their radar because dudes like that don't pay attention to devops or the Midwest
I "came out of nowhere" with my technical skills, and therefore the obvious conclusion for some very smart men in infosec was that I must have been taught by some elite unit and work for the CIA
I took it as a compliment. Thanks for noticing my skills, guys! 💖
what's the funniest thing someone's ever gotten mad at you for on here. i think mine is when somebody told me i was rich and privileged for saying back service corridors at malls are scary at night when i was in the service corridor bc i worked there
There's a reason why all the infra engineers on your timeline are sounding alarms. Because here's the thing about keeping things running: when you're doing your job well, people think you don't do anything. People only notice when you're gone and things break. And they will
This thread speaks truth. This site may be running right now, but when it goes, it's gonna go. That is not an if. That is a when.
Make whatever backups you need. Exchange contact info. Make a plan.
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
BREAKING: companies are hiring software engineers and engineering managers.
More than 750 of them! Thanks to everyone who contributed to this list. See the full one here:
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/who-is-hiring-2022/…
(Using the 'breaking' part to highlight some good news for a change!)
This is a catch and kill of history, meant to alter the present in order to control the future. Hang on to the archives. Not everything that's destroyed naturally gets built again; there's no guarantee of renewal. Sometimes the powerful want things -- and people -- to disappear.
Wheatpaste with your friends, hand out zines, post on indymedia, make pirate radio shows, stencil, make broadsheets and more.
We have so many tools and we will have so many more.
I am genuinely worried about what happens to information circulation without this app. Even the basic thing of government agencies being able to communicate quickly in emergencies. This is going to be especially important as the climate continues to change.
pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite
post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I’ve fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)
I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"
As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.
the answer to both “well then why is Twitter still up” and “why are you convinced Twitter is going to get worse” is read this paper https://how.complexsystems.fail
I really love y'all. We moved mountains of water and ice and food and cash. We had each others' backs in a lot of real world ways that make me hold up two middle fingers in my heart when people say Twitter isn't real. Minneapolis Twitter made a lot of things happen.