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Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 9 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] nick@midwest.social 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.world 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.social 3 points 9 months ago

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