Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected]

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My nephew: “I heard that you work for computers”

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

Where can I find a man
Who has forgotten words?
He is the one I would like to talk to.

– Zhuangzi, as translated by Thomas Merton

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@kymeriandawn @thinkingshivers Yes, but seeing from what others have done maybe I got lucky

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@kymeriandawn @thinkingshivers https://t.co/n5XoIdxvHm

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@MichaelCalifra @JustinWolfers Canadian here. Historically speaking that is very untrue! Don’t get too cynical

Arguably your biggest problem is that you are too used to having a relatively free, open, and welcoming society. Many of you can’t imagine that it can be taken away

[Tim Bray @timbray]

1/3 Here’s a plea to all of Twitter. If you agree, please retweet, because I think it’s important.

If you’re going to leave:

1) Don’t delete your account, because someone else could grab it.
2) Don’t delete your tweets, because they are part of a unique historical snapshot.

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

It’s been about a month since I went to Mastodon. It’s much better for me.

Also, I only follow people I’ve met. Without anyone with an agenda to engage me, my feed takes 3 minutes and all of it enriches my life.

Only coming back to ask: why are you still here?

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@alexeheath I'm a little disappointed. Given the source, I think we have to be skeptical that the initiative is real, and we should be careful when he name-drops others to make it seem more real.

In particular, did you attempt to confirm this with @moxie?

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@samgoodwin89 Two things can be bad at the same time

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@VasiliyZukanov @pmarca You have to be trolling. What about “report to my office with screenshots of your code” strikes you as dev-driven

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@carlsverre I wouldn't have found out about a lot of interesting tech stuff otherwise. Like @goodside, that's Only On Twitter

However, as Knuth (quoting Eco) said, "I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages" https://t.co/ZD2erIy9gf

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@carlsverre I got a lot of value here from early-breaking news (like nearly 2 months advance warning for COVID) and alternative takes (masks are good actually!)

However, this comes at the cost of being driven somewhat insane the rest of the time

[Peter Clowes @peterclowes]

Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0

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[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

legal and moral implications? unconscionable impacts to life and liberty of users and employees? you might get fined or testify before Congress?

has this stopped the guy before?

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

This is all true, but don’t expect Twitter to just die suddenly

There are options – a lot more options! – once you are willing to accept the loss of some sleep, some users, some reliability, some metrics, some reputation, and some of your immortal soul

[Mosquito Capital @MosquitoCapital]

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

tbh I expect they are going to bumble along with a lot more downtime and the engs will get used to shutting down and restarting services in sequence, with throttled % of users

this is usually the last resort and it will become their 1st resort

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

I actually reached out to some journalists but didn’t get any replies.

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

I’ve been telling you all that they’ve been using “eugenics” approvingly

[Thomas H. Ptacek @tqbf]

Extremely cursed paragraph:

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@lennysan Thermopop. A good instant-read kitchen thermometer is life-changing. https://t.co/GhfuFsQ4U7

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@wanyeburkett @GordonByBike (It might be unethical if you're dragging norms down, but Musk already did that, and as CEO he actually has the primary responsibility to set norms)

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@wanyeburkett @GordonByBike It's definitely never a good tactic to harshly criticize anyone you work with in public, and I doubt anything was gained here.

But it's not inherently unethical or immoral.

[Neil Kandalgaonkar ➡️ @[email protected] @NeilKNet]

@starsandrobots I don’t even know what this means but I’m gonna guess

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