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BREAKING: Musk locks down Twitter code, brings in trusted software engineers from TESLA to review the code
Blind ^ | October 28, 2022 | Engineers

Posted on 10/28/2022 8:38:16 AM PDT by nwrep

Key points:

1. Musk has ordered a freeze on changes to Twitter code as of noon Thursday, October 27, per Twitter employees. No code checkins are allowed.

2. On Thursday, October 27, Twitter product leaders showed Tesla software engineers (brought in by Musk) the company code. These Tesla engineers are reviewing the code in preparation for a confidential briefing for Musk early next week.

3. Twitter software engineers are locked out of the code, other than a few exceptions personally approved by Musk.

(Excerpt) Read more at teamblind.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: audit; code; elonmusk; musk; review; tesla; truthsocial; twitter
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To: GingisK

Different domains for sure.


141 posted on 10/28/2022 11:09:15 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: GingisK

There’s something so reassuringly logical and solid about assembly. It comforted me to visualize my data sitting safely in its little register. But you DID need to be a compulsive commentor.


142 posted on 10/28/2022 11:09:23 AM PDT by mairdie (Blooper Reel - IBM Research Computer Science Division Videos - 1991 - https://youtu.be/VaPvX2nZMEs)
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To: Roadrunner383

“He’s trying to make sure the employees aren’t going to sabotage the system.”

I have a feeling that’s been going on behind the scenes for at least a month in anticipation of the takeover. Probably someone’s been designated to flip a dead man’s switch as he walks out the door.


143 posted on 10/28/2022 11:11:21 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: nwrep

Does Musk know the Tesla engineers are not biased for sure?


144 posted on 10/28/2022 11:11:36 AM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: mairdie
I found that understanding computers at the assembler level makes it a lot easier to understand the quirks of high level languages. It seems the most difficult concept to teach in programming is the nature of variables and how to use them. The relationships between variables and instruction streams is quickly learned in assembler.

But you DID need to be a compulsive commentor.

Of course. Rust never sleeps, and all parenthesis/braces must be balanced. Woe to the non-compliant.

145 posted on 10/28/2022 11:15:33 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Husker24

Well all Musk has to do is ban cooking curry smelling food in the dining halls and small kitchens and there goes 75% of the workforce.


146 posted on 10/28/2022 11:20:07 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: pburgh01

Musk won’t be SHOCKED at what his engineers find I think he KNOWS that our intel agencies have their fingers deeply embedded in Twitter I hope he understands what he is going to be up against!! I hope he shares EVERYTHING with the public!!


147 posted on 10/28/2022 11:24:32 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: nwrep

Reminds me of the past when big businesses were preparing for layoffs and a number of new “employees” would come to work a few days before D-Day. While most of the workers were in the auditorium being told they were fired, the new “employees” were removing anything that could be used as a weapon and changing the locks to prevent sabotage of the plant.


148 posted on 10/28/2022 11:28:59 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: GingisK

YES!!!!!!!!!!!! My first masters was education and I was teaching computing to 5th graders. I taught them registers and data with candy, but the computers kept making errors because the data kept disappearing into small mouths. Later I wrote a thesis on developing a computer language for children without variables based on Backus’ Reduction Languages. It had the quality that it worked until the kids got to that 5th/6th grade level, then you needed a PhD to understand the language. Total failure.


149 posted on 10/28/2022 11:40:28 AM PDT by mairdie (John Backus Group Meeting - IBM Research - 5 July 1989 - https://youtu.be/KzBkb-bvNK4)
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To: Red Badger

Bravo!


150 posted on 10/28/2022 11:43:32 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

Like anyone will care or do anything about it.


151 posted on 10/28/2022 11:44:30 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Eat the Rich)
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To: Zack Attack

Yes


152 posted on 10/28/2022 11:45:52 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: vespa300

Kushner was one of his own and I believe the chief backstabber!


153 posted on 10/28/2022 11:45:53 AM PDT by 100%FEDUP
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To: MayflowerMadam

>>behind the scenes for at least a month in anticipation of the takeover

With code frozen, wouldn’t you search code from latest to earliest to see what was changed most recently? And, importantly, WHO changed what. Gives you the priority firing list.


154 posted on 10/28/2022 11:46:35 AM PDT by mairdie (John Backus Group Meeting - IBM Research - 5 July 1989 - https://youtu.be/KzBkb-bvNK4)
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To: EliRoom8

Elon just tweeted he is forming a content moderation council with “widely diverse members”, and “no major reinstatement’s or content decisions will be made until that council meets”.


155 posted on 10/28/2022 11:46:44 AM PDT by gswilder
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To: mairdie

Perfect. I’ve heard (but don’t know) that those who code have certain unique “signatures”, even if they’ve skirted the process of logging in correctly. Even if hacked in, their methods often can identify them.

And those mouthy Twitter employee kids spouting off about the situation. No matter what their actual words are, all Musk hears is, “I’m a malcontent trouble maker. Fire me!!”


156 posted on 10/28/2022 11:52:52 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (When government fears the people, there is liberty.)
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To: DadOfFive

Yep, might find that stored away in some Github accounts there...lolz


157 posted on 10/28/2022 11:54:59 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: DadOfFive

I am stealing that for my fellow techie friends.


158 posted on 10/28/2022 12:01:51 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: gswilder

>>content moderation council

Once you’ve got a diverse committee membership, then all you have to do is require unanimous agreement for censoring content. Assume that everyone would agree on beheading video links or pedophilia links, but not on political ones.


159 posted on 10/28/2022 12:03:49 PM PDT by mairdie (John Backus Group Meeting - IBM Research - 5 July 1989 - https://youtu.be/KzBkb-bvNK4)
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To: mairdie
Awesome! Perhaps an RPN language like Forth would be a good place to start.

I taught Embedded Computing in high school for two years. First I presented digital logic, the binary number system, and then processor architecture. The willing then learned assembler on the AVR (Arduino) processor.

That is pretty far outside of the box for high school students. Half of them were very enthusiastic while the other half were just plain shell-shocked.

I keep thinking that I want to develop curriculum for high schools.

160 posted on 10/28/2022 12:05:05 PM PDT by GingisK
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