Yep this form of "journalism" always makes me wonder about why somebody would do this. Informing the public seems to be a secondary concern. At least that's my initial impression. Basically, this reads as clickbait aimed at some influencer circle jerk playing out across linkedin, quora, etc. where people with too much time and yet no attention span hang out to profile themselves to each others and do some ego boosting: "OMG look what I discovered and how brilliant that makes me look". I imagine somebody drooling over all the clicks they are getting and am already annoyed with myself that I'm perpetuating that bullshit by having clicked on the thing.

It looks like a minor non issue to me. But this being California, I imagine the kind of people in that before mentioned circle jerk might include lawyers, politicians, etc. that are looking to get in on the action (i.e. lawsuits, publicity, and other melodrama) that has nothing to do with the actual technical problem. The latter I imagine is a simple matter of this company getting off their ass and replacing the rusting parts in question.

In short, what's the agenda of the person that wrote this?

I agree.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306359385656946688.html

I found this series of tweets a very succinct way of describing the failure. Ultimately the key evidence is contained in the images and we only need a few additional words to provide the context. A tweet storm built around a handful of key images serves as a poor-man's infographic.

Maybe I just had low-expectations when I clicked through and I was pleasantly surprised that it represented a useful failure analysis.

You can read a Threader version: https://threader.app/thread/1306359385656946688

agree. i hate when really interesting info is tweeted out. this belongs in a blog post hosted somewhere less ephemeral. the way it was pre-web 2.0.

twitter/FB/etc serve as infomation sinkholes. sure, you may get a million likes and RT'd by influencers such as Kanye, but after a few days, whatever you wrote is forgotten and no longer discoverable. then it's as if you never wrote it at all, because nobody else will ever find it.

i miss the old web. i miss web rings. i miss just casually surfing from link to link and stumbling across serendipitous information dense and concisely written essays about some thing out there in the world that taught me valuable knowledge.

social media must die. the old web must return.