fuck it I'm not letting this site die before I get to post my best shots of the year

Steven M. Bellovin UNC Computer Science From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Broo… about Fred Brooks: "The most important single decision I ever made was to change the IBM 360 series from a 6-bit byte to an 8-bit byte, thereby enabling the use of lowercase letters. That change propagated everywhere." May his memory be a blessing.

one thing working in twitter's favor is that there are very few changes, since all the engineers were fired or quit, so change fail rate is no longer a big concern

Complex systems rely on individuals who knows where to look and what’s looking ok. Understanding the complex relationship between components and cascading failure patterns sometimes require years of engagement on a system.

the VC weirdos holed up with Elon are having a good laugh

Chad, you didn’t prepare for a system design interview, but I have a simple problem: show me the architecture you’d use to publish 50K tweets/s with a power law distribution for fan out. Your biggest user has 50M followers. Once you’re done, you can compare it to Craigslist

Today's Substack is about the death of the myth of Elon Musk, and how his destruction of Twitter has become a public referendum on his own incompetency, arrogance, greed and desperation. Musk has publicly shown himself to be a Fraudulent King. ez.substack.com/p/the-fraudule…

The assessment we were all hoping to read.

My reaction to this was not to kick the CEO out, but instead to remind them quietly that their presence had an effect on the people in the situation zoom. But we all liked that guy and it was a small-ish company. x.com/norootcause/st…

I feel this one all the way. <3 to Mina, Oswin, and Fezzik. x.com/ArkadyKoshka/s…

45 years ago, dozens of turkeys met their unfortunate demise in a Cincinnati parking lot.

All previously banned accounts, domains, IoCs, networks, emails, hosts, or device identifiers are now allowed on your platform due to a recent policy change made by leadership.

The more I understand how bad SBF fucked the crypto industry the more I'm inclined to agree that he is an effective altruist

hi kids! it's me, your favorite sexagenarian here to tell you that when I was a kid we taxed the shit out of the wealthy and not only did we have money to build bridges and schools and moon rockets, rich people still had plenty of money left over to spend on rich people bullshit

Tuesday is a Pittsburgh cat who has never been CONVICTED of a federal offense. She is very sweet, she has been spayed and has only allegedly punched fascists. Tuesday needs a home and you need a Tuesday ADOPT: petfinder.com/cat/tuesday-55…

The current state of my Twitter experience: my DMs are now all bitcoin/cryptocrap phishing expeditions.

Burrito Justice darth™ I'll join: 🥔 🍟 🍟 🥔 🥔 🍟 Wake up @Darth! 🍟 🥔 🥔 🍟 🍟 🥔

"Nobody uses Rust in production", he emailed (with Thunderbird) from his laptop (running Windows) to a mailing list (on AWS, behind Cloudflare), which I then read (in Firefox) on my phone (running Android) after clicking a link (in Discord) to the list archive (served by Fastly).