Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech-industry cuts
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Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a "large number" of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.

Jack Dorsey’s Block lays off ‘large number’ of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts::Dorsey told staff in a Tuesday memo that a “large number” of Block employees, including those at Cash App and Square, were being laid off.

  • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
    28·
    10 months ago

    Meanwhile, very few people are left who know how Linux actually works, which is why they had that massive outage last year; turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      10 months ago

      turns out adding over 100k iptables rules to every server in the data center is a bad idea.

      “Hey, I bet we could get the benefits of Istio by using iptables. What could go wrong?”

      • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        I guarantee you someone thought they could reinvent istio. Historically square is HORRIBLE about “not invented here”