Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack”
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The Sheep Look Up
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"But how will I get to my clerical job at IBM without mein Volkswagen?"
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Part of the reason is that it's a [redacted] name. Just today, I read an article where the author still added "(formerly Twitter)" to explain what in the world X was, nearly two years after the fact.Ashley Belanger said:
Is that a variable we're to solve for? Did you put that in as a placeholder and forgot to fill it in before posting?Musk said:
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The Sheep Look Up
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It's a DDOS but all the IPs are Ukrainian which would be an incredibly sus marker that someone else was involved which proves it was Ukraine! QED
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This is typical of Elon and people like him. Always blaming someone else when something goes wrong. And taking credit for any success even if it’s not theirs
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Apple fanboy 101
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But he clearly does, otherwise he wouldn’t be jumping around everywhere like a moron.
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Really? Football players require Twitter to get their news? I'm pretty sure that Jalen Hurts doesn't, nor do the rest of the Eagles who whooped the MAGA Chiefs ass. I am also pretty sure that most football players know how to click on the little "search" thingie on their phones and find news that isn't on Twitter.
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Agree - and I love the picture!
One picky point: Marion was a supermax for awhile but then downgraded to medium security. I knew the former dentist -- nice guy. Patients loved him.
They can go to ADX Florence, the feds' supermax in Colorado
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Perhaps a single drive finally failed after Musk unplugged all of the redundant systems
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It was dark storm but the fact that Elon put out it came from ips in Ukraine is just f'd up. The guy fired too many engineers to deal with this stuff and these attacks are hard to deal with. We should take note about how deep this guy cuts and how bad he is at it. This is exactly when having a few extra network engineers....for a company that is nothing without a functional network might have been a better f'ing plan.
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Yeh, I'm pretty sure if a sniper was involved, they wouldn't be shooting at the rocket...
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Deployed slightly too heavy a filter to make sure the Tesla stock crash doesn't get bubbled up?
Anyway, regarding the headline, I went through one extended social media migration - once there was a viable alternative, it took several years of parallel coexistence before at some point posting on the original site ceased in a matter of months. Something about tipping points and change first happening slowly, then all at once.
Anyway, regarding the headline, I went through one extended social media migration - once there was a viable alternative, it took several years of parallel coexistence before at some point posting on the original site ceased in a matter of months. Something about tipping points and change first happening slowly, then all at once.
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You sound like a badge-renter.
You know what happens when I post ‘cisgender’ on Bluesky? Nothing. It pops up on the timelines of the people that follow me, then gets replaced by newer posts. As it should be.
Try that on X. I dare you.
Cancelled my 16yo Twitter account over a year ago, haven’t missed it for a minute. If you’re still using the hate-site out of preference, it’s because you enjoy the company.
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You mean the human shield he left in the dust walking off stage a while ago?
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Twitter going down the same day Grok said Elon could be deported for breaching his visa is probably just a coincidence.
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Because of degrees of separation. We’ve seen that lots of people don’t politically engage with Musk when they use Twitter.
Yesterday was the opening of the NFL Free Agent window.
The NFL has told its teams not to use BlueSky.
Twitter goes down leading to loads of pissed off NFL fans and bloggers.
That’s going to push people away from Twitter to other sources. Big businesses will need to start diversifying from Twitter.
That’s a win for everyone.
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Yes, they maintain a presence there. But they, like others, are distancing themselves. And the proof of that? Look at the bottom of this article. See the social media links? Point to the X link.
I'll wait.
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Musk should offer whoever is doing this half of his servers. That will stop them.
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No doubt something the Ukrainians have been expecting, and hopefully have been working on finding alternatives, as painful as that may be. Continuing to use Starlink would seem to have its own risks, at any rate.
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Sorry but why is this being reported, or at least uncritically? If I understand correctly, Grok is summarising existing news, so either reporting Grok's answer is repeating known information (without sources, no less), or it's doing what all LLMs do and making up bullshit.
Whatever the case, it has no place being repeated here.
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X/Twitter became an unusable cesspit of fascism and "adult" content years ago.
I really cant believe so many people are still using it, or maybe its just Russian bots talking to MAGA bots these days with the odd "onlyfans" promotion
I really cant believe so many people are still using it, or maybe its just Russian bots talking to MAGA bots these days with the odd "onlyfans" promotion
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That could well be that X pulled the plug because of a DDOS… or more precisely because they don’t have the technical capability to adapt to a DDOS anymore.
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(Space X and snipers) That happened in 2016. Long before Elon was famous for being a Nazi by the general public. What exactly happened by then isnt quite clear. Something happened to the rocket that could have been caused by a sniper but no proof.
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