Science/Techno Babble Random, Random

[Suliso]

Nice educational video about long term climatic effects. I mean really long term.

[ponchi101]

A journalist asked ChatGPT to write about itself. Here is the resulting brief essay:

ChatGPT.jpg

This thing will eliminate a lot of jobs. One more: the people that write small reviews for movies (like the small descriptions for IMDB). Those people are toast.

[ponchi101]

Nice educational video about long term climatic effects. I mean really long term.

I had never heard of these Milankovitch cycles. Extremely interesting. Thanks.

[ti-amie]

I was just notified that I can't tweet anymore today.

About Twitter limits
Why have limits?

Limits alleviate some of the strain on the behind-the-scenes part of Twitter and reduce downtime and error pages. For the sake of reliability, we've placed some limits on the account actions below.


Current Twitter limits

The current technical limits for accounts are:

Direct Messages (daily): The limit is 500 messages sent per day.
Tweets: 2,400 per day. The daily update limit is further broken down into smaller limits for semi-hourly intervals. Retweets are counted as Tweets.
Changes to account email: 4 per hour.
Following (daily): The technical follow limit is 400 per day. Please note that this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior.
Following (account-based): Once an account is following 5,000 other accounts, additional follow attempts are limited by account-specific ratios.
These limits include actions from all devices, including web, mobile, phone, API, etc. API requests from all third-party applications are tracked against the hourly API limit. People who use multiple third-party applications with their account will therefore reach the API limit more quickly.

These limits may be temporarily reduced during periods of heavy site usage. In such cases, we will post an update on the Twitter status site.


What happens if I hit a limit?

If you do reach a limit, we'll let you know with an error message telling you which limit you've hit. For limits that are time-based (like the Direct Messages, Tweets, changes to account email, and API request limits), you'll be able to try again after the time limit has elapsed.

The Tweet limit of 2,400 updates per day is further broken down into semi-hourly intervals. If you hit your account update/Tweet limit, please try again in a few hours after the limit period has elapsed.

Having trouble?

If you've hit a follow limit, please see this follow limit troubleshooting article for more information.


https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-p ... ter-limits

[ti-amie]

lasdair Stuart
@AlasdairStuart@wandering.shop
Unprecedented levels of clown shoes at the birdsite. 3000 character tweets roll out for the rent-a-ticks and the site instantly falls over so badly the only way you can tweet is schedule it. Which you can’t on the mobile app. Oh and the one app that lets you schedule stuff may also be about to go rent-a-tick exclusive.

GREAT job, you F**king Justin Hammer wannabe. Just amazing.

[ti-amie]

Darryl Mott
@Abstruse@chirp.enworld.org
What's fascinating to me about the #TwitterDown is not that it's down (that was inevitable), but the very specific way it's failed.

The only site function that still works is scheduled tweets, quote-tweets, and likes.

EVERYTHING ELSE is broken. No TweetDeck, no DMs (in fact the archive is inaccessible), no RTs.

That's a flashing red arrow pointing and what very specifically broke on #Twitter but Musk fired everyone who can read flashing red arrow.

[ti-amie]

This seems to be the consensus view of what happened.

Peter Wartman
@wartman@mastodon.art
Lol they just did the "all the words" update today, I think maybe someone didn't test things well enough

Somewhere an Elmo engineer is whining this didn't happen when they tested things on Tesla's...

[ti-amie]

Mastodon servers are overloading.

[ti-amie]

im Stewartson :toad:
@jimstewartson@toad.social
This might be why. It is certainly conceivable that Elmo’s ragtag of leftover desperate engineers put out a feature without properly testing it.



It is what I said though...

[ponchi101]

Computer counters. Famously tricky (when you are coding) if you need to reset.

[ti-amie]

If only more of tennis twitter would move! Maybe this will be the thing that makes all of sports, news, entertainment move to a different platform.

[ti-amie]

lolgop@mastodon.social
Brianna Wu
@briannawu@mstdn.social
This is objectively very funny.

Twitter is falling apart. I currently can’t follow anyone or post anything. In the midst of this, Musk had a meeting to find out why his engagement is plummeting.

An engineer looked into the code, found no issues, and speculated it’s because he’s less popular.

Musk fired him on the spot.

https://t.co/orXAYv5yEq


https://mstdn.social/@briannawu/109836695711005710

[ti-amie]

John Infante
@johninfante@mastodon.world
@jbe @lolgop So he mostly just wants to be Tom from MySpace. It’s going to get to the point where everyone has to follow him, he cannot be unfollowed, blocked, or muted, and you have to receive notifications when he posts unless you turn them off for Twitter at the system level.

[JazzNU]

im Stewartson :toad:
@jimstewartson@toad.social
This might be why. It is certainly conceivable that Elmo’s ragtag of leftover desperate engineers put out a feature without properly testing it.

Twitter used to test and stress test for months before roll out. Musk hasn't even owned the company long enough for the old standard of testing features. They've been rolling out and retracting half baked features since they bought it. It's truly a clown shown. That early layoff approach and subsequent exodus has backfired because the grand majority of the best talent has clearly left the building.

[ponchi101]

I suggest he starts a forum and be the ADMIN. You, know, the ONE person you can't "foe".
(You people are so unlucky... )