Mostly Harmless (Cam Johnson) @mostlyharmlessz@muskless.social

Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over Threads

in November, Elon Musk mocked laid off Twitter employees, saying “their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere”

well, apparently some went to Meta to build Threads & Musk now has a problem with that

Elon is melting down and threatening to sue over Threads. Just the weakest snowflake imaginable.

i am itismattlevine at the other place but i don't like it

Mastodon CEO says the launch of Instagram's Threads, which intends to adopt ActivityPub, "is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come" (Eugen Rochko/Mastodon Blog)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/
http://www.techmeme.com/230705/p36#a230705p36

APK teardown of Instagram's Threads app that appeared prematurely on the Play Store reveals the app's website, www.threads.net, and details on how it will work (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-countdown-plus-details/
http://www.techmeme.com/230703/p26#a230703p26

Hitman: Who am I killing?

Dog: Ever heard of a guy named Pavlov?

Hitman: Rings a bell.

Dog: *narrows eyes* That's right.

Looks like Mastodon's active user base has increased by 110K over the last day. Not bad.

Today in the annals of the Self DDOSing Twitter we follow the story of the three wise monkeys.

Yesterday was Monkey-can't-read-Twitter. Today seems to be Monkey-can't-post-Twitter.

If tomorrow isn't Monkey-can't-hear-audio-in-Spaces-Twitter I'll be sorely disappointed.

So, anyone else unable to post to Twitter today? If you can, feel free to screenshot this and tag @sysop408 on Twitter.

#TwitterDown #SelfDDOS

Cameron Johnson finished reading "The money cult"

The moderators of r/IAmA say they will no longer coordinate celebrity AMAs and Reddit "has all the funds they need to hire people" for tasks done by volunteers (Jay Peters/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781306/reddit-moderators-iama-celebrity-ama
http://www.techmeme.com/230702/p1#a230702p1

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

Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. Oh, but it's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.

#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

#Twitter has completely cut off public access to posts. Twitter accounts are now unable to share anything with non-Twitter people. Direct links no longer work, which is a disaster for accounts distributing public information.

This is a textbook example of why you should have your own server as part of a federated social network. Ownership means your public links will never break, federation means you can reach a mass audience.

It's VERY easy to set up your own server: https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network

Rate Limit Exceeded takes this tweet over the top.

This is hilariously stupid. I mean, just painfully stupid. And, yes, it's real.

Every decision isn’t just bad but also worst than the last one. It’s actually an incredible skill.

Imagine how stupid you have to be to take your web site which traffics in popular posts driving engagement, and disincentivize 99% of your users from loading the most popular posts with the most interest around them because it will eat their daily allotment of reads if they do.

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

This is all from the second interim report of John J. Ray III, the CEO appointed to oversee the FTX bankruptcy.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748821/1704/1/ftx-trading-ltd/

so SBF and an attorney:
• falsified a "payment agreement" between FTX & Alameda
• backdated it by ~2y
• wet signed it to avoid DocuSign timestamp
• submitted it to an external auditor
• used it to obtain a $400M funding round