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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if Elon ever regrets firing all those engineers.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Never. He will always blame someome else for his mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago

Yep! He just blamed a non-existent DDoS attack, lol

Fucking Clownshoes.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Must be some novel DDoS because it somehow only took down their stream while the rest of the site worked. Musk is so genius someone invented a new hack that only snipes one specific live stream!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago

The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago

Trying to fake the crowd size again

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok I legit read that as Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I wish one were involved... Any further bad press for him is a win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Cyberstuck even...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago

He should take the opportunity to blame the truck design on a cyberattack as well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Donny thounding pretty thupid ath uthual

God this interview is boring.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

Sure, Jan

It couldn’t be because you fired all the adults …

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was a DDoS, there are ways to prevent it.

But Old Musky isn't smart enough and too cheap to go for services like Cloudflare.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

He probably asked the IT guys in charge of uptime stability to print out all the code they were using to keep the servers running and fired anyone who said "what the fuck are you talking about"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Server had narcissistic overload

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Lying liar lies about his shitty site failing after he cut a ton of engineering talent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
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