Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter's JavaScript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second.
Twitter is DDOSing itself.
[An image taken from the sci-fi television series "The Mandalorian" that shows the protagonist "The Mandalorian" in their characteristic metal suit. Their face is obscured by their helmet. The subtitles underneath the image read the text "[sighs]"]
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
I'll ask the (unofficial) Lemmy branch of the ToR group on discord. Personally, I have no idea how to do anything aside from the transcribing part, but that also means I don't know what kind of infrastructure we'd need to get this off the ground haha.
I'll reach out to them and get back to you with results!
Seriously. They talked about smart contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, and made it sound like NFT's would replace your mortgage.
Instead we got jpegs of monkeys and Logan Paul hustling digital eggs, and everyone trading on speculation with no one actually building anything other than scams.
I mean, the legitimate stuff is all still there and it's all still growing. But it was eclipsed by a bunch of assholes trading tulip bulb scams. Now that the scams are no longer profitable and have mostly pulled up their stakes, everyone's like, "Well I guess crypto was a bust, then!"
No one blames tulips for the bulb bubble. The bulbs all still worked just fine once they weren't worth thousands of dollars each anymore. But you didn't see it filling every page of every newspaper anymore, and that's a good thing.
Of course there is also the fact that you basically cannot use crypto for any legitimate purpose anymore due to draconian AML laws that have been passed in the last ten years specifically to fuck with crypto.
There actually is a real project called Internet 2 (https://internet2.edu). It's a secondary high-speed backbone between institutions of higher learning. 15 years ago, at least, it was really fast...if you needed a fast connection to one of the few other members.
This isn't even greed or anything, it's just sloppy incompetence and/or obscenely rushed development.
Intelligent retries and exponential backoffs are really common things taught to programmers, whoever didn't add this needs to have a really good reason or a really good resume...
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
@[email protected], @nelson
Lol the Twitter webapp is trying to load something from its internal graphql API and getting a 429 Too Many Requests response. Twitter's JavaScript ignores the error and tries again, hundreds of times a second.
Twitter is DDOSing itself.
[An image taken from the sci-fi television series "The Mandalorian" that shows the protagonist "The Mandalorian" in their characteristic metal suit. Their face is obscured by their helmet. The subtitles underneath the image read the text "[sighs]"]
^I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^
I'm glad this volunteer community is back. How do I volunteer as well?
Right now, I'm just operating freelance. But I'd recommend checking out the ToR subreddit and accessing the docs and discord from there.
(We don't have a central document put together yet that isn't reddit based, but if you go from reddit to discord it should be okay)
What does ToR stand for? Might be easier to find the subreddit that way.
I believe it's TranscribersOfReddit. The stickied thread is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TranscribersOfReddit/comments/offnxp/new_here_for_info_on_what_we_do_and_on_how_to_get
Hey, I'm not much of a transcriber, but if you guys need any kind of infrastructure or tool hosting, I'd gladly donate my resources.
I'll ask the (unofficial) Lemmy branch of the ToR group on discord. Personally, I have no idea how to do anything aside from the transcribing part, but that also means I don't know what kind of infrastructure we'd need to get this off the ground haha.
I'll reach out to them and get back to you with results!
I like that the volunteer transcribers are already making the switch. Keep up the good work 👍
Good hooman.
Nice work! Thanks for helping visually impaired users :)
Scotts > Bots
Do you all have a home community? This was something I always wanted to look into doing on Reddit but never made the time.
Yep, r/TranscribersOfReddit, and then there's a discord where we all actually talk
Or the beginning of the new new Internet
Web 4.0 (we don't talk about 3.0)
Bro, you don’t want to buy a monkey to get rich? Bro…
Fucking cryptobros stole 3.0 from us. It was supposed to be decentralized internet, not this ponzi Blockchain bullshit.
Seriously. They talked about smart contracts, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, and made it sound like NFT's would replace your mortgage.
Instead we got jpegs of monkeys and Logan Paul hustling digital eggs, and everyone trading on speculation with no one actually building anything other than scams.
I mean, the legitimate stuff is all still there and it's all still growing. But it was eclipsed by a bunch of assholes trading tulip bulb scams. Now that the scams are no longer profitable and have mostly pulled up their stakes, everyone's like, "Well I guess crypto was a bust, then!"
No one blames tulips for the bulb bubble. The bulbs all still worked just fine once they weren't worth thousands of dollars each anymore. But you didn't see it filling every page of every newspaper anymore, and that's a good thing.
Of course there is also the fact that you basically cannot use crypto for any legitimate purpose anymore due to draconian AML laws that have been passed in the last ten years specifically to fuck with crypto.
Out of genuine curiosity, what's the legitimate stuff?
Is that what happened to IPv5?
Funnily enough IPv5 actually existed, it was basically early VOIP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol
I, for one, welcome our federated [lack of] overlords.
Internet 2
Electric Boogaloo!
[break dancing intensifies]
I have questions about your username. None I want visual aids in response. But questions none the less.
Well you see their username is very easy to understand
Farts in French
If that doesn’t make sense
Farts in Russian
Well you see their username is very easy to understand
Farts in French
If that doesn’t make sense
Farts in Russian
Well it's about time it finally came out!
There actually is a real project called Internet 2 (https://internet2.edu). It's a secondary high-speed backbone between institutions of higher learning. 15 years ago, at least, it was really fast...if you needed a fast connection to one of the few other members.
Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.
Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy.
Another great bastion of reddit content has been felled.
Another reason for redditors to leave and join Lemmy
Lol, it's spreading
Get the popcorn out. 🍿
Autocorrect strikes again!
Lol I just remembered Elon's tweet that led to him firing an Android dev. Who's doing poorly batched remote procedure calls again? 😂
This is why we can’t have nice things! Something something more money, right?
This isn't even greed or anything, it's just sloppy incompetence and/or obscenely rushed development.
Intelligent retries and exponential backoffs are really common things taught to programmers, whoever didn't add this needs to have a really good reason or a really good resume...
I wouldn't complain if this kills corporate social media and we're left with the user-run fediverse.
but then we'd have less to complain about
But complaining is half my personality
Probably some code Elon's dumbass wrote also.
Can't believe Reddit was doubling down on a full moderator strike and Twitter said "Hold my beer"
Fuck twatter even more than fuck spez.