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Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users doing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS

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Taking a break today of trying to improve bird.makeup because it looks like it’s already working better than Twitter itself

@fishcharlie Seems like Elon has fired all the backend engineers, so all the new stuff since he is here is just UI changes, including this. Backend stays the same.

But it seems the twitter backend is becoming super flaky, often failing to return results (getting 404, failing to return videos, etc). So I will have to figure out a way to reliably get the info I need, or have graceful degradation when I don't get everything

fun fact, you can bypass it by setting the "googlebot" useragent
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Looks like Twitter is rejecting many bird.makeup requests today. Expect degraded performance until I figure a workaround

Now Twitter does not allow users to view tweets without creating an account!

Thanks, though, now I don't even get tempted to look at posts on the bird site.

The change also breaks archival tools, making tweets effectively much less verifiable.

Let's hope these changes wii drive people away from the platform.

It can always get worse.

"JavaScript Gom Jabbar" by Alex Kotliarskyi frantic.im/javascript-gom-jabb

This one hits a little too close to home.

3 days until the #Silo finale.

Here’s the entire first episode.

On the plus side, large servers banning bird.makeup gives people an incentive to move to smaller servers, and thus keeping the fediverse decentralized.

Also I remember having QT in @IceCubesApp, but not anymore. Did I dream of this or this feature got removed?

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Testing QT behavior in apps: in which apps can you see this toot as containing a QT instead of just a link?

tapbots.social/@mark/110616746

Canada: We’re gonna tax Facebook for letting news outlets post links on it

Facebook: Ok, but if you charge us for allowing news links in Canada, we’ll stop allowing news links in Canada

Canada: Nuh-uh

Facebook: Done

Canada: Wait no how could you

From @mmasnick @ Techdirt:
techdirt.com/2023/06/23/as-can

What I’m working to today, 8-bit radiohead: youtube.com/watch?v=X1I0_bsjEs

What an amazing band to be this good in 8bits

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

Can’t wait for this to come out, the 3 body problem is one of my favorite book series ever youtu.be/5lj99Uz1d50

The problem with fixing something is that when it breaks again it becomes your fault
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