Kate Anderson

@wadingboid
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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

@Sysengineer That would be HEAVEN.
@GossiTheDog Do you have a means for folk to donate towards your costs?

Happy #TowelDay to those who celebrate! Pro #astronomy tip: never install Genuine People Personality software in a #telescope. We did that at Paranal Observatory in #Chile and, well, bad idea.

#DouglasAdams

I’m a bitch
I’m an Orca
Sinking boats
Just off Majorca
I’m a sinner
I’m a whale
My sinking never fails
What's the German word for that thing where you're trying to remember how to say something in a language you're not fluent in, and your brain starts rapid-firing all the *other* language snippets it has on file, just in case those help
@jef @rjblaskiewicz @Popehat They also forget that Schenk has long since been superceded.

From experience: if you create culture inside an org where you acknowledge security breaches happen, and place protecting customers and society at the heart of discussions, you will by proxy protect org from reputation damage, and employees, as everybody wants to do best thing.

There are always trade offs - but if you nail the culture, lead by CEO, intentions start from a good place.

Cybersecurity effectiveness isn’t just playing with technical toys. If you get culture wrong, outcomes are bad.

telling the Borg my designation is Six of Five to trigger an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds Exception, giving me time to escape
Hearing young people not understand Matrix references makes me want to buy investment properties and suppress the vote