Is Elon on crack? I'm not paying $42K PER MONTH for Twitter API access
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Hope fully this decision was not made out of stupidity, but out of desperation to refill Twitters' hemorrhaging bank accounts.
bye bye twitter, you won't be missed . The only sad part is the death of twitter will drive users to even shittier services, like reddit and groomercord.
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reddit might be the first to die. I imagine their IPO is going to be worse than when digg changed everything and caused everyone to go to reddit in the first place
Putting the in
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It isn't going to refill anything because nobody is going to pay it lol.
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I don't want Twitter users anywhere. I hope they all fall into sinkholes on their to pick up their thrice daily doordash order, not like they leave the house otherwise. I don't want to hear them, I don't want to see them. I just want them to stay as far away from me as possible. They are creepy, mentally degraded husks of what a human should be. I'm no Nazi but these creatures are closest thing I have ever encountered to the ideal of an untermensch. Hitler would have rounded them up to a one. Stalin would have liquidated them all. They are a bipartisan problem and I don't know if there's any coexisting with them.
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Just wait until election campaigns kick off. People will be glued to their phones again.
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i can't wrap my head around these people who think twitter is going to just stop existing over night.
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they forgot their not in their groomcord echochamber when they say that. When you're used to saying something verifiably false yet getting constant validation for you're delusions it's easy to forget the real world doesn't work that way.
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even yahoo still exists on paper
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I vaguely remember reading that yahoo is a big deal in Japan still
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If you're not glued to your phone already for Ukraine, you're a Putin asset.
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I have atrong feelings about tbe fate of SmichiBIPOCskovo, may the brave hohols fight on!
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That’s soon isn’t it… I know it’s good for drama coin, but I’m not ready for more wingcuck screeching.
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Then don't?
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No
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That's what you get
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But my business wants the free advertising!
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Almost everyone I follow takes this approach, and Elon only wants eightbux from them
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/R/SysAdmin is just sneed on sneed.
Every week there’s dudes posting “I make $40k for 80hr/w, when is it okay to ask for $42k?”
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My favorite are the sysadmins and IT techies who are so paranoid about malware that they recommend spending tens of thousands dollars and laborhours on anti-phishing training and overly complicated software plans. The company in question: 5 people with a basic windows server.
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Especially now that it's built into O365
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I think the best take is sure you need to craft believable phishing emails but you really do not want your users hating IT.
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It’s that or them bitching that they have to go into the office once a week for a few hours or a combo of ‘I work completely remotely, why do I not get paid as much as the on-site sysadmins??? ’
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lol I haven’t seen those threads yet.
The money saved from gas and making food at home is way worth a slight “pay cut” IMO.
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I’m a work from home cel/chad and I can never bring myself to DoorDash lunch unless it’s a really really bad day.
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If whatever you need API access for can't survive a 42k hit then maybe you just to need to find a new idea to waste your time with
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Wtf is API?
Trans lives matter
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Api is the boomer name; zoomers will probably call it SaaS or something
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Think of it like a phone number for a server or computer hardware like a graphics card. Elon is charging people who want to make hundreds or thousands of calls like this guy
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So u can use this too call people over twitter of what?
Trans lives matter
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An API call/request is a way for the public to run my code. An API can also be for internal use only like when the FBI needs to know who's a republican on twitter. Developers can write APIs that find a list of users, get a tweet, get all tweets by a certain user, etc.
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Literally could make minimal calls and send it to kafka to distribute themselves.
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It returns a response to a web request.
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Having to pay for a service is extortion
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API
Alligator Kitty investigator
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Not even Microsoft felt like paying for the API.
This is gonna be a massive disaster.
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Has anyone yet calculated what the volume of a $180-billion crackrock would be?
I'm thinking it would be like smoking Khufu's whole pyramid.
Imagine spending 20+ years hauling unimaginable quantities of granite and limestone just to have some spoiled butthead (that literally looks like Butthead) cook that shit up with baking soda and smoke it, thousands of years later.
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Snapshots:
undelete.pullpush.io
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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