I’d think that it would be even harder to find work if one stayed at Twitter much after all this.
“So, you stayed?”
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I can’t blame people for staying at Twitter, especially those on H1-B visas. The entire industry is in layoff mode right now. Or at least hiring freeze mode. Getting a job in Q4 is hard as hell in the best of times. I cannot blame people for taking the sure thing over the maybe thing. Sure, you get three months of severence, MAYBE, if Elon actually pays that out. We’ve not hit a twitter payday yet so we don’t know how true that is going to be. Don’t be surprised if a ton of people just don’t get the severence AND if Elon gets away with it because nobody signed anything when they quit.
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It seems like the H1-B folks do not have a choice, which I’m sure that Musk is aware of… it’s just another form of exploitation of vulnerable immigrants.
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Why do people keep confusing Baby Boomers with Millennials? Almost every chat program had sounds in the '90s after sound cards were a standard if-not-yet-built-in feature.
AOL Instant Messenger door close
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I think that post was more about Ryan’s struggle to figure out how mastadon all works, separate from the other post about sounds. Mastadon is weird, especially if one thinks it is supposed to be a Twitter replacement (it’s not - it is almost designed to prevent virality) - it’s a very different thing, more like Usenet than Twitter in how it is structured. So I think the struggle to figure it out was the point in that post, not sounds
(I read Ryan’s newsletter and listen to his podcast, so I have more context than just the two toots to go off of)
ETA: I would love for all software to go back to constant sounds effects on the level of AOL messenger and Kidpix, personally
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Thank you for that explanation. I had assumed both were in the same line of thought/thread.
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Yeah! That’s it!
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Crypto bros are losing an advertising channel?
I’ll live.
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Meathead.
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Elon’s trying to drag Moxie Marlinspike back to Twitter.
Framed by presentation slides titled “Twitter 2.0” at Twitter’s San Fransisco headquarters on Monday, Musk told employees that the company would encrypt DMs and work to add encrypted video and voice calling between accounts, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The Verge.
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He went on to praise Signal, the encrypted chat app that is run as a non-profit. He said he had spoken with its creator, Moxie Marlinspike, who is now “potentially willing to help out” with encrypting Twitter DMs.
“Ironically, Moxie Marlinspike worked at Twitter and actually wanted to do encrypted DMs several years ago, [but] was denied that and then went and created Signal,” Musk said.
The Verge obtained a recording of a meeting Musk held Monday, reporting that Musk’s new vision of Twitter 2.0 is a service where private messages are totally private. To Musk, that means all direct messages are encrypted, so he plans to work with Signal. According to Musk, Signal is “potentially” interested in helping Musk make sure that: “I can’t look at anyone’s DMs if somebody has put a gun to my head.”
Signal, however, told Ars that the company has not been in any official talks with Musk.
“Signal has not been working with Twitter on this effort,” Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, told Ars. “We do believe that more private communications are a net good, and we are interested to see how Twitter tackles the complexity of creating usable, encrypted DMs across the web and mobile.”
Moxie (edit)resigned as CEO of Signal in January and hasn’t posted any updates to Twitter since the 15th. Meredith Whittaker quoted and linked the Ars Technica article.
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"According to Musk, Signal is “potentially” interested in helping Musk […] "
Translation: he wishes - but hasn’t even asked yet.
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but…but…why would they not want to contribute (for free) to this awesome dumpster fire he’s building?!?!?!?
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It really is totally inconceivable, isn’t it. Defies logic. Baffles the imagination. Ghasts the flabber. Blows the weird-o-meter.
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Or, here’s an idea: just use Signal instead of Twitter 2.0’s ambiguously encrypted Signal clone
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