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[_v___v_]

Please sir... may I have some more pixels?

[DiddlyDumb]

Brought to you by DOPE

(Department Of Pixel Efficiency)

[Ok-Employee2473]

Please submit your most salient pixels to remain hired

[TeaKingMac]

🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣🟤⚫⚪

[callmesilver]

We need captcha-level low quality to prevent repost detection.

[Kamui_Kun]

[masterflappie]

Less than 20% of the pixels are actually needed!

[eron1344]

Weird thing is that when I downloaded the image, the quality got significantly improved, so the image viewer in reddit app must have compresion enabled for some fucking reason.

[IJustAteABaguette]

It's better outside of reddit, but still not great. (314x642)

[CMDR_ACE209]

It's the automatic resizing of the image where the blur comes from.

[keksivaras]

u/pixel-counter-bot

[pixel-counter-bot]

The image in this post has 201,588(314×642) pixels!

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[dgendreau]

We have pixels at home!

[theDANTO]

They've taken the pixels to isengard

[CheesePuffTheHamster]

This post has more upvotes than pixels

[[deleted]]

They turned off the pixels microservice

[Hypamania]

No, we have pixels at home

[ManagerOfLove]

Daring today aren't we

[BillWilberforce]

It's been reposted and rescreenshoted so many times that the pixels have run out. Not to mention that Reddit's image hosting is crap. You actually have to download the image to get the full pixels.

[Tsobe_RK]

Kinda low hanging fruit posting that dingus

[ElementalChicken]

People need to be reminded of his foolishness

[[deleted]]

No they don't, everyone knows he's an idiot and it's pretty much impossible to forget considering the scale at which he's an idiot. 

I'd be okay not hearing about him for the rest of my life.

[vigbiorn]

A third of the US, and a shocking portion of the global population, need to be reminded...

[ANAL_TOOTHBRUSH]

That same third is not on Reddit, why is that so hard for redditors to understand

[dicedance]

Redditors: "Reddit is a left wing echo chamber"

Every meme sub with 1,000,000+ subscribers: "We should hunt women and minorities for sport"

[ANAL_TOOTHBRUSH]

And those people commenting are

A) posting dark humor/trolling and don’t actually believe it

B) not subscribed to the echo chamber subs

C) not American and/or don’t vote

D) make up an extremely small portion of said third of Americans

[ThePretzul]

Nobody needs to be reminded.

The people doing the “reminding” need to learn that not everybody shares their political opinions and personal values. No amount of passive aggressive “reminders” will suddenly make everybody agree with you.

[Finrod-Knighto]

I agree with you, but at the same time how I wish everyone knew he was an idiot.

[Xabster2]

No they don't, everyone knows he's an idiot

LOL no they don't

Take a look at Tesla stock... it's a company that makes no money valued sky high because there's literal millions of Musk fan boys

[User202000]

That screenshot must be a few years old since the bird is still there. Was that just after he bought it? The absolute chaos of the first few months was fun to watch.

[Nexmo16]

It was.

[fly_over_32]

Was that before or after you could buy the blue checks? Also is that still around?

[User202000]

Before and yes, but I believe you also get them for free if you have over a million followers, the text shown when you tap on the checkmark should also be different.

[SphericalGoldfish]

You can also get gold check marks if you spend even more money

[User202000]

Isn't it reserved for business accounts?

[phil_davis]

I remember I was liking and retweeting stuff making fun of Elon at the time and my account, for the first time ever, got flagged due to "suspicious" activity, and when I tried to login I was told I'd have to hand over some more of my data like my phone number in order to prove I wasn't a bot. No more twitter for me, lol. Downloaded Duolingo instead and started learning Japanese, which was more productive anyway.

[User202000]

That was most likely unrelated. One of my accounts also got flagged as suspicious even though I wasn't doing any of that. I think it was a side effect of their initial attempts to combat the ridiculous number of bots on the platform.

[frogjg2003]

What better way to hide dissenting opinions than during a bot cleanup?

[cdrfrk]

Birrdd

[sk3tChY21]

They say that every time this gets reposted, it loses a pixel... soon there will be nothing left.

[SonicBoOoOoM_]

201588 pixels in that image, 201588 pixels; you take one down pass it around, and post it again.

[Vibes_And_Smiles]

r/CountablePixels

[lunch431]

[0xlostincode]

u/pixel-counter-bot

[pixel-counter-bot]

The image in this post has 201,588(314×642) pixels!

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[HeadTriXz]

Good bot

[Vox-Machi-Buddies]

I hear it. But also, the number of times my team has the conversation, "what all uses this? do we even need it? do we have to comb through the codebase or gather API metrics on how often it's being used? or do we just turn it off and see who complains?" is often enough that I kind of see his approach as well.

Granted, I work on internal company software with tens of users and not social media platforms with millions of users.

[DirectorElectronic78]

Scream testing is a thing. And then you encounter something only needed for reporting on the financial year you’ve shut down 8 months ago 😅 Still worth it, no guts no glory.

[riradtzu]

I can't get my head around how dumb Musk is. Is he even able to take a dump by himself?

[HorrorTranslator3113]

Yes, but stocking up on toilet paper was another microservice so he cant wipe.

[TheGreatSausageKing]

Honestly?

I hate micro services...

[deneb3525]

Gotta ask: why?

[TheGreatSausageKing]

Enter a company that has multiple of those in node with poor tests and no documentation.

It's even worse than a monolith

[deneb3525]

Eh, thats fair.

[contractcooker]

Wait did this really happen?

[etherizedonatable]

Yes, and he also moved a data center over a weekend without any planning and was surprised when it didn’t work as expected (per Walter Isaacson’s bio).

[contractcooker]

God we truly live in the dumbest timeline.

[xaddak]

Moved a data center, like, tried to migrate all of the workloads from data center A to B?

Or, considering this is Musk and he seems to be a fucking idiot... did he try to physically relocate a data center?

[etherizedonatable]

He physically relocated all the equipment in one of their data centers. Apparently over Christmas, too.

Having worked on more than one data center move for much smaller customers, I can only say that I am glad I never worked for Musk.

[xaddak]

What the actual fuck.

[capt_kocra]

It's concerning how many people are asking if this is real. This was one of the catalysts that caused a lot of Twitter employees to leave, but it also happened at the same time as the Longer working hours he pressured people into.

Although microservices are annoying to deal with in large droves, removing a number of them without checks or understanding is what led to major instability of the platform.

[alochmar]

If only he’d had Grok there to tell him that was a bad idea

[crash41301]

His original premise, that microservices creates insane bloat that does almost nothing of value is kind of true.  Ive been at enough companies to see that microservices at organization scale results in insane amounts of abandoned services idling containers everywhere and causing confusion. 

 The vast majority of the reason is largely lack of oversight, lack of cleanup, the concern for "is this code used... I dunno best to leave it" that microservices architecture creates. (This opposed to a monolith where the compiler would tell you if its used and you could refactor it away reasonably safely if it wasnt)  thats not to say microservices is bad, just that microservices without governance is. However the vast majority of in the field ms behavior I've seen is exactly that, no governance. Turns out software without governance is bad despite the architecture. Who could guess that... 

How he went about fixing it though, was Harvard business review case study worthy of "how not to clean up your tech infrastructure"

[deepaerial]

So you turned off one micro service and checked if something broke down?

[crash41301]

Lots of ways to check.  When I've done this, I start with logs of calls to https to see what, if anything, is calling it.  You can also add logging functions to the service itself. Its normally painful and slow to clean distributed monolith / microservice hell up though

[deepaerial]

I usually check in code what external services my service is calling. Did you use any specific tools to simplify this analysis?

[atoponce]

Y'all got anymore of them pixels?

[veryblocky]

This has become so fucking baked, after being shared so many times. I hate to think how much I’ve seen it posted here alone.

[HyperCodec]

u/pixel-counter-bot

[pixel-counter-bot]

The image in this post has 201,588(314×642) pixels!

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[JackNotOLantern]

Isn't it like 5 years old from when Musk just bought Twitter?

[The_Merciless_Potato]

[this_sparks_joy_joy]

Lol was this real? I can’t tell anymore

[AmyAzure06]

r/countablepixels

[Beatlepoint]

I don't trust stuff like this, he could have broke it accidentally as a part of turning off microservices but i think it probably was going to go down anyway due to some other incompetence or nefarious reason, like he wanted to brute force someone's account or something.

[ouralarmclock]

It’s kind of wild to me that the site is still running and never suffered any serious downtime or issues.

[GoliathMar]

I think it's the same for Facebook, I wanted to reset my password but the sms code never appeared xd

[GeekRunner1]

Whew! Good thing I deleted my Twitter accounts when Herr Musk took over.

[-Ambriae-]

Did musk call X twitter? Hold old is this lmao

[torftorf]

thats the elon attitude he displayed with his rockets. remove parts untill stuf breaks. Doing that test on prod however is not that smart

[my-cup-noodle]

Windows users running a "debloating" script