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Jason Kottke

The privatization of Twitter has been a complete triumph! Note the recursive simplicity of this. Recursion is an important concept in computer science so well done there.
6 Mar 2023 at 17:05 | Open on saturation.social
31 comments
Vex Machina

@jkottke also if you check the headers it's a 403 but apparently this is also a 467 so that's nice

6 Mar 2023 at 17:11 | Open on mastodon.me.uk
Derrick Everett

@jkottke Oh dear. The bird site seems to be broken again.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:16 | Open on fosstodon.org
movation

@jkottke this happens with any http request for twitter anything rn. a thing of beauty

6 Mar 2023 at 17:16 | Open on fnordon.de
Hirad

@jkottke privatization?! Seriously?
Twitter has always been a private company. Just being owned by more than 1 person doesn't make something public.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.hirad.it
Matt

@hirad @jkottke .. being traded on the market makes it public. Are you serious? I can't tell any more.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:26 | Open on sfba.social
Hirad

@marcidy @jkottke
Publicly traded company != public company
A company that is owned by private investors is a private company. No matter how many investor it has and how its share holders have obtained its shares.
Public company is a public property, owned by no body (everybody).

6 Mar 2023 at 17:32 | Open on mastodon.hirad.it
Matt

@hirad You're trying to use words differently than the context implies. "public company" has multiple meanings because that's how the words are actually used, especially in this context. Context always matters.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:46 | Open on sfba.social
Hirad

@marcidy except "privatization" has a clear and specifically defined meaning.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:54 | Open on mastodon.hirad.it
Matt

@hirad How is that relevant to what I said?

6 Mar 2023 at 17:56 | Open on sfba.social
Caio C. G. Oliveira
this one guy

@jkottke "Your current API plan" = attempting to open literally any page on #Twitter dot com

"this endpoint" = twitter dot com

lol

6 Mar 2023 at 17:21 | Open on mas.to
peejaybee

@jkottke hardcore programming right there, as promised.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:28 | Open on cityofchicago.live
katch wreck

@jkottke "these are not the hooks you're looking for" jk

6 Mar 2023 at 17:47 | Open on mastodon.social
oatmeal 🐧

@jkottke I was seeing that as well from search results... looks so amateur

6 Mar 2023 at 17:47 | Open on emacs.ch
Mark Eckenwiler

@jkottke The classic Jargon File entry:

recursion: n.
See recursion. See also tail recursion.

6 Mar 2023 at 17:57 | Open on thepit.social
Steve Yoder

@jkottke I got that error message on Twitter but I honestly didn't read it. Oh, wow. That code plus the message itself is really funny.

6 Mar 2023 at 18:15 | Open on ohai.social
Sir this is a Wimdy's

@jkottke looks like a fixed point to me so yessss

6 Mar 2023 at 18:32 | Open on types.pl
Dan
Kieran Farr

@jkottke I guess Twitter couldn't pay their Twitter API bill?

6 Mar 2023 at 19:40 | Open on sfba.social
GhostOnTheHalfShell

@jkottke So if a mass of people all hit this url at once?

6 Mar 2023 at 19:55 | Open on masto.ai
Claude Rains

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @jkottke
In the words of the BTVS character Spike, that’s when β€œHilarity Ensues.”

6 Mar 2023 at 20:15 | Open on sfba.social
renegcepeda
Girtablulu πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

@renegcepeda @jkottke do they not have a test environment? I hope not they do stuff on the main environment xD

6 Mar 2023 at 21:47 | Open on swiss.social
renegcepeda

@Girtablulu @jkottke I’m gonna go ahead and guess no. It’s obvious he doesn’t know how to code. What is a code stack?

7 Mar 2023 at 4:25 | Open on mastodon.art
Nate Tharp

@renegcepeda @Girtablulu @jkottke It’s times like these that I’m reminded of how delusional his enablers are.
7 Mar 2023 at 6:32 | Open on mastodon.social
The Febrile Muse

@jkottke Our Social Security could work as good.

6 Mar 2023 at 23:05 | Open on masto.ai
Clive Thompson

@jkottke

That is the finest example of endpoint poetry I've ever seen

7 Mar 2023 at 3:59 | Open on saturation.social
:NYNRock:
@jkottke privatization? :blobmojiquestion:
7 Mar 2023 at 5:49 | Open on asbestos.cafe
Stefan
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