Gregory's ServerTwitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
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 @mjg59 Like the British think-of-the-children filter quite a while ago that made Sussex, Essex and Middlesex and such unreachable.   @rypel @rabbithawk256 @martinvermeer yeah “drapes” was a problem with a content filter for one company I worked at. Probably not a detectable issue for most, but I worked at a theatrical supplier. Detected on day one.   @rypel I have many favorites in this collection of historical realities of this phenomenon from the wiki article And I just stopped because yeah every once in a while it's edifying to see the absolute absurdity of our modern world And there's plenty of more to roll my eyes of later @rypel @rabbithawk256 @martinvermeer 'The word or string "ass" may be replaced by "butt", resulting in "clbuttic" for "classic", "buttignment" for "assignment", and "buttbuttinate" for "assassinate".' Buttbuttins don't sound like scary killers.  @martinvermeer @mjg59 That is still an issue within some local authorities and elsewhere in the public sector.    @mjg59 It seems a little odd they're still using twitter.com as their primary domain. You have to imagine multiple teams at the company have spent the past half year trying to figure out how to ensure all their infrastructure won't explode if they started redirecting twitter.com to x.com rather than the reverse.  @rotopenguin @mjg59 Hundreds of teams, but by now all of them are staffed by LLMs... and some guy named Steve who has to *actually* make sure it doesn't all catch fire.   @zheng3_jim lol, all hail to @nasamuffin , they posted it first and I've been laughing about it in my head the whole evening 😅 In addition to being ridiculous on so many levels, it feels like they're somehow still on the fence as to whether it should be called X or Twitter.    @mjg59 wait, when did this happen? I'm trying to find references/screenshots and coming up blank. I'd love a laugh this afternoon 😂 @mjg59 @jesseplusplus Also, don't forget to find your vehicle's history at https://carfatwitter.com  @mjg59 I genuinely hope this was the result of a malicious compliance type of situation. Only to know that not even the folks working there want it to survive @mjg59 I love that he fired so many people that nobody there knows how to write a regex
@mjg59 "what are unit, integration, smoke, and acceptance tests?" - elmo, probably   @mjg59 nobody who could easily get another job is left. All that remains are devs willing to put up with a tremendous amount of crap to work on a product that will inevitably get worse over time because the boss decrees it.   @mjg59 I just posted a link to https://www.twentyessex.com/ and it was fine and then deleted the post because i don't post there anymore    Wait, they did what the what now? Substring match on the end? Bwahahaha... Oh, you are serious.      sed -i s/elon/dipstick/Ig "Donald Trump's election deniers boosted by dispstick Musk" 💯 "Donald Trump has been charged with multiple fdipstickies."🤔  Since this change was designed with the use of only one brain cell it must have been made by that cat.  |
@mjg59 @vmstan this is a level of a incompetence so bad that I can only imagine Elon coded it himself.