Former tech journo, used to write for Macworld, DailySocial, e27. Ex , ran a national startup initiative program in Indonesia. Very much into the news.
My ‘Don server admin has been on a blocking spree and a number of friends and people I follow got caught up. Like a full block, not just limited. This means zero interactions between the servers even if the accounts already follow each other.
Unfortunately this was inevitable with Mastodon growing so rapidly and with so many factors in play. Content moderation is a major thing on the Don and many of the long time admins can be quite strict on it, not to mention personal preferences on certain matters being a factor in deciding reasons for blocking ga limiting access. Unlike blocking, limiting means visibility if the accounts are connected.
I mean, their servers, their rules, no debating that and if it becomes untenable, you have an option to move or start your own.
Having said that, I’m considering running my own server eventually. Haven’t decided if it’s going to be just a personal one or open to registration among friends. Certainly not going to entertain any random person.
As I keep saying, the company is not compatible at all with how Elon Musk thinks how a company should be run. In fact, it’s likely the complete opposite is true, which is why there’s far fewer than 50% of the company’s staff remains.
Originally Twitter wanted to shave 25% of their headcount even without Elon, because they were painfully aware the company was bloated. Elon boasted about wanting to cut 75% of the staff, but when he came in, he ended up Thanosing the company instead.
What he probably wasn’t counting on (or maybe he did to an extent) were the culture clash and staff solidarity so now Twitter ends up with fewer than 3000 employees and that number is likely going to go down even further by the day. Apparently 75% of the remaining staff opt out of the “extremely hardcore” conditions.
From the looks of it, Twitter could break next week with nobody available to fix things. People are already seeing glitches and things not working on the site.
He boasted about cutting 80% of the micro services that he deemed inessential to running Twitter which ended up disabling two factor authentication via SMS and now it looks like his 75% layoff plan is working, albeit perhaps slightly differently than he intended.
Musk is fucking around and finding out.
I was going to post the article about the latest round of resignations but this Techmeme page is more relevant with all the live tweets included
Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall is probably responsible for starting the trend earlier this year. As the article noted, the nickname Elmo had been used to refer to the Tesla CEO at least since 2018 but it was never widely picked up until he announced that he was buying Twitter earlier this year.
Independent journalist Marcy Wheeler who goes by the name emptywheel had been previously credited for the nickname’s popularity but she denied it saying she picked it up from others.
This is a perfect article that encapsulates pretty much everything that’s happening with Twitter in the last couple of weeks.
The mercurial CEO is under fire from his own staff to the point that he can’t take a joke and can’t deal with employee uprising. He’s also very allergic to criticism and challenges to his statements which makes him very thin skinned. All the talk about being a free speech absolutist and comedy being legal on Twitter had unraveled mere days after he took over the company.
However, Musk has always harbored a vision for a service he calls X which is supposed to be the everything app, so all that he’s done to the Twitter corporation seems to be the steps into creating that company.
He always insisted that PayPal was meant to be X but it turned out differently and gave him the opportunity to create Tesla and SpaceX, along with everything around them like The Boring Company and Starlink. So now with Twitter he thinks he’s bought himself several years into creating this X.
When you see it from this perspective, it’s no wonder it looks like he’s destroying the company because he is treating it as a shortcut to building something else. It’s likely that Twitter may end up as a PayPal competitor or something else with a payment service at its core and the social network as just one of its products.
He’s a billionaire who probably is best at dealing with machines, not people, since clearly he has no regard for people. Meanwhile, Twitter is a company about people, so that’s not going to work. He’s going to have to turn it into a company about products, like his other companies, to be compatible with his vision and management style.
From Passwords to Passkeys. How to Use the New Authentication Technology
PC Mag put together a rather comprehensive guide to using the new Passkeys introduced in iOS 16. It’s also available on iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura. If it works with previous OS versions, let me know.
Passkeys let you log in to websites and apps without using a password, replacing it with unique, site specific set of cryptographic keys linked with on device authentication methods such as FaceID, TouchID, or other compatible authentication technologies. Microsoft and Google, who are members of the same trade group as Apple, have announced support for compatible tech, so it won’t be limited to just Apple devices and ensures a much wider adoption.
A caveat with Passkeys is the app or website has to support it before you can use it. If you make a new account on a passkey compatible service, you won’t be prompted to generate a password, but if you’re an existing member or account holder, you’ll need to go through steps to transition from password to passkey to use the new method.
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