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Twitter yuk, can somebody just post the names of the four tested drives and which passed/failed please?

imo hackernews should just automatically replace twitter.com with nitter.net even if just for readability without logging in's sake:

https://nitter.net/xenadu02/status/1495693475584557056

The Harmonic HN reader for Android does this

Uhm nope , atleast not the one on playstore , is it there somewhere in the settings ?

Oooh yes , found it in the settings

We should just learn to ignore people still posting on Twitter (which is called something else now).

This is from last year.

I'm still posting on Twitter because the people I'm trying to reach are still there and the alternatives never materialised.

Then you are still part of the problem.

Besides, if you're trying to reach the people who remain on Twitter, that says a decent amount about you.

"users of my application".

You seem to be claiming that everyone still on Twitter is ideologically compromised. There's a ton of people just ignoring the politics and I still need a channel to reach them.

The politics are all that are left; it's impossible to use Twitter and not participate on some level.

For example, Twitter is now called X. Surely they noticed that.

I can't take this seriously. Sorry.

Yet again monetary selfishness wins over principle.

Maybe you should stay on Twitter.

Edit: Based on your website, who exactly are you trying to reach? Prospective clients? On Twitter?

You say "users of your app", but it seems like that isn't a huge volume of people, and were you to move to Bluesky, they would almost certainly follow... Unless it's not worth it for them?

You're looking at my personal website. And I'm really not engaging any more.

Serious question; what responsibility do you have as a consumer of a product, if any, beyond yourself?

>For example, Twitter is now called X. Surely they noticed that.

So what?

So the claim that people using Twitter are largely unaware of the substantial changes is an inaccurate one.

twitter.com is still working.

That’s not what I said.

Irrelevant, write clearly or others will interpret it differently than you intended.

Twitter now being called X can go undetected by users, simply because everything still works the same as before the non-completed namechange.

This is the only correct answer, if you don't like the boss of a social media company, you should just cut all ties with everyone on there. Then lock yourself into your room, never go outside again, and complain about it on HN.

Or you could have a spine and move over to a platform not run by a billionaire antisemite.

Fix everything that makes Mastodon a terrible user experience, get me and all the people I want to reach an invite to Bluesky or persuade people to start using Threads, and I'll happily switch.

This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.

The attempt is not persuasion, but alienation. This is the fate of people who behave as he does, and I believe will contribute (to the extent any one person can) in deterrence of others from trying to normalize continued Twitter usage in light of its antisemitic shift in tone.

Alienation from what? People who uncritically parrot fabrications and propaganda on HN?

THAT is what shouldn't be "normalized".

But since you brought it up, of all the indicators of societal descent over the last 7-10 years, the shift away from critical analysis and open dialogue to soviet-level information control and behavior/thought policing is most troubling.

I use Twitter daily because it's the only platform where I have a chance to hear the whole truth on a given subject, usually assembled from multiple sources. I follow a lot of actual leftists as well as the conservatives and liberals-in-exile that make up the modern "right".

I don't know that I follow anyone with whom I agree on every topic, and that's as it should be IMO. Even when I strongly disagree, I'm grateful for the freedom to hear and evaluate these voices.

And while I'm reluctant to engage with your "argument", I'll say that I've seen a handful of antisemitic posts over 10+ years on Twitter, none recently. I have seen a fair amount of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist content in the last six weeks, consistently from those on the left and consistent with what I've seen in demonstrations around the world.

The continued use of Twitter ought to be met with disdain by anyone with a modicum of integrity. It is each person’s duty to make that clear to those who seem to lack the ability to self regulate, morally.

You don’t get to support a hateful platform consequence free.

And reddit links with old reddit.

Is nitter.net still functional for you? The service was accessible earlier this year from my location but now it is all 403 Forbidden.

nitter.net is, the mirrors are not.

iirc, twitter turned off all anonymous access, unless you come from a search engine, then you get a limit number of requests. So zedeus came up with an idea to make a massive pool of search engine'd api tokens and use those to keep nitter up. The mirrors would have to copy that idea, and few (0?) have atm.

The current state is to use guest accounts [1]. If you use that branch instead of master and get a collection of accounts, you can run your own instance. For my personal use instance this is working fine with the initial set of accounts I put in. No idea how long this will work and/or when it is going to get merged, it is a moving target.

I think the token workaround you mentioned is the old way that no longer works, but I am not sure.

[1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/pull/985

This is from February 2022. This should be in the title.

The models that never lost data: Samsung 970 EVO Pro 2TB and WD Red SN700 1TB

Correction: “Plus” not “Pro”. Exact model and date codes:

Samsung 970 Evo Plus: MZ-V7S2T0, 2021.10 WD Red: WDS100T1R0C-68BDK0, 04Sept2021

Update 2: models that lost writes: SK Hynix Gold P31 2TB SHGP31-2000GM-2, FW 31060C20 Sabrent Rocket 512 (Phison PH-SBT-RKT-303 controller, no version or date codes listed)

Thanks, the 970 Evo Plus is a solid unit. I have one in my old PC, along with a 980 Pro. Went 990 Pros on my new, they didn't go 30 minutes before I had the firmware updated. :-) Very good performers.

(I always keep an eye on things like firmware updates).

We should just say X. Not "X (formerly Twitter), not X-itter, or anything. It's called X, if that name is stupid and unclear that's on them.

It's also on you since you have a choice re which name to use

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