Chris

@aryst0krat
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Aspiring writer. Actual lazy nerd.
ChrisAug 8, 2023
jwzAug 5, 2023

Mastodon's Mastodon'ts.

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon....
https://jwz.org/b/ykC_

Mastodon's Mastodon'ts

There are a few fundamentally broken things about how Mastodon posts work that are terrible vectors for abuse, as well as being bad for basic usability. Maybe they are fixable, I don't know. To be clear: I am a fan of Mastodon. I have been enjoying my time there much more than I ever enjoyed Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. And I am 100% in the "I won't touch anything Jack Dorsey has ...

ChrisAug 4, 2023
Jeff AtwoodAug 4, 2023
Do you prefer to perform overt, immediate evil, or slow, indirect evil? 🤔
ChrisAug 3, 2023
Jason KottkeAug 2, 2023
I never ever ever ever ever ever ever want to paste text with styles intact.
ChrisAug 1, 2023
Rei needs a new seasonal nameAug 1, 2023
Pop culture made me believe that the parts of my life with acne wouldn't overlap with the parts of my life with 10+ grey hairs.
ChrisJul 26, 2023
Missing The PointJul 26, 2023
Under tentative five-year contract between UPS and Teamsters, if a customer says “Hot enough for you?” to the driver they are permitted to keep the package.
ChrisJul 26, 2023
Taylor LorenzJul 26, 2023
Musk’s rebranded Twitter is offering extremely hefty discounts to advertisers while simultaneously threatening them that if they don’t spend at least $1k on ads in the next 30 days their brand will lose its checkmark and they won’t police impersonation https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-rebranded-twitter-cuts-ad-prices-d2615d8f
WSJ News Exclusive | Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices

Social-media site X is offering hefty discounts to lure back ad dollars

WSJ
ChrisJul 26, 2023
Sophie!Jul 26, 2023

Every single thing conservatives are mad about can fit into three categories:

1) things they made up entirely
2) things caused by conservatism
3) things that are none of their goddamn business

ChrisJul 24, 2023
drewtoothpaste.bsky.socialJul 19, 2023
the only thing i've been posting on threads is pics of toxic mushrooms i find in the forest and comments that imply im eating them
ChrisJul 1, 2023
I'm not *100%* sure this is what's causing the problem, but it seems like if you try to boost a post with media hidden it throws a 503 error until you show the media. Weird.
ChrisJul 1, 2023
SheldonJul 1, 2023

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS