So the analogy becomes, the new boss sold all the fire extinguishers and also placed a short temporary ban on cooking in the building. But eventually people are going to start turning on stoves again… and then…
Those things aren't going to fail any sooner than they would have anyways, but they're going to fail a lot harder due to the loss of institutional knowledge.
Said no-one in the entire world except a hand-full of Hollywood studio owners.
That bot shouldn't have existed in the first place, but I know that that falls under "just world fallacy" and is a naive thought.
Is that true? I thought one of Elon’s big pushes was launching the whole Blue Tick subscription thing. That doesn’t feel like a small feature.
It might not be small, but it's not exactly huge.
When was the last major new feature? The site has always seemed pretty stagnant.
Whether that will spell disaster when there's a fire depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin with and whether the boss can buy new, better fire extinguishers to replace some of them before there's a fire.
If we're deep-diving it'd be closer to say that he rolled in and sold 80% of the stuff, largely sight-unseen, and if a fire breaks out he'll find out how much of that stuff was fire extinguishers.
As an SRE I would have been shocked if Twitter failed catastrophically (well moreso than broadly disabling authentication) in short order. However failure is pretty much inevitable at this point given the damage that E-Lon is actively doing.
Whatever. Twitter and Musk deserve each other.
I'm pretty sure there will be no failure at all, and Twitter will work just fine.
Not the end of the site by any means but cracks are showing.
Let's not forget that whatever code monkeys are left are now personally liable for running afoul of the FTC. Whatever motivation they may have now will run out pretty damn quick once they stop getting paid.
Someone purchased some land for $1. Built a house for say $100. And now spends $100,000 a year making it the perfect place to rent, receiving $100,000 a year in rent.
Someone comes along and borrows $1m to buy that house. They feel ripped off but eventually are force to go ahead with the purchase. As a result they have to pay $100,000 a year in interest. They need this thing to be profitable!
To do this they need to cut back on the $100,000 a year spent. They decide go go in quickly and so email all the services saying "go hard or go home". So the plumbers, tradie, cleaners etc that don't like it leave.
As a side hustle also charge visitors to the house $9 to be allowed to wear their bowtie they used to wear for free.
Some of the people do maintenance jobs and improvements. They keep the termites out, fix subsidence issues, and so on.
And the house didn't fall down within 3 weeks of it being purchased.
