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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago

Musk calls it a "massive cyber attack".

I call it "systemic infrastructure and personnel losses caused by the malignant narcissistic man-child who is running the company into the ground".

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just get "big balls" to fix it

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's probably.some of his enemies that are part of it.

There's a good article out there about a thing called com. A haven for.hackers of the criminal variety. He was not in good standing.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Your reply got hacked by the period boys.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If only he didn't get rid of all the senior engineers that worked on the platform.

How is he going to be president and keep Twitter up and running at the same time?

[–] roz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The answer is simple. MORE FIRINGS

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

The firings will continue until quality improves

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a pretty good idea. Musk is a fan of Roman history. Do a Decimation Elon! Fire every 10th developer! That'll bring the system back up!

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

X's official support channel, which has been dormant since August, has so far remained silent on the outage, but one user asked Grok—X's chatbot that provides AI summaries of news—what was going on, and the chatbot echoed suspicions about the DDOS attack while raising other theories.

That's not how LLMs work... Why is Ars endorsing that brain-rot?

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

Also the source is "one user".

but one user asked their Grandfather -- who only get their news from Facebook -- what was going on, and the relative echoed conspiracies about moon creatures attacking with brainwaves.

That's the same level of journalism going on here.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

It is when it comes to Twitter. They've tinkered with Grok to block reality to better suit whatever Musk believes is true.

That's probably the closest to support/press there is from that shit hole.

[–] yopyop@feddit.nl 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Quite literally my response when I walked past the TV with news about it, lol

[–] nodiratime@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Will someone please think of the Nazis 🥹?

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

I am. I have the following card to give them.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So he’s not smart enough to prevent it.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

And probably fired the people who were working on preventing this

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

His best friend would even say he was asking for it.

Maybe he should sign a deal with the people who hacked his platform and give them about 20-30% of the companies shares? Apparently that's why people need to do when under attack, give the aggressor whatever they are asking for.

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago

Is there.. is there a go fund me the attackers? Asking for my cousin’s ex girlfriend’s dog

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

And he wants to make a payment system to rival the likes of Venmo et. al.?? LOL.

[–] ArghlBarghlFooFera@feddit.org 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's already spinning some yarn that it was Ukraine. I call bullshit.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

The guy is 99% bullshit. This is like calling water wet.

Of course it's bullshit. Everything these fuckers say is a lie. I think they'll get an aneurysm if they ever told something objectively true.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

(us giving energy to Anonymous)

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I agree. Musk has been attacking twitter's infrastructure and employees since the purchase.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not massive, it's just average sized.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

That's not what she said.

[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 1 month ago

Whatever effort it took, whatever the cost: it's worth bringing Twitter down just to take away Elon's ability to tweet, even if it's only temporary. I'm sure the tantrums must be epic.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Well NOW how are nazis supposed to be publically racist?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

I blame it on Musks decisions.

[–] Gigameister@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Guy took his eye off da ballz

[–] DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago

X hurt itself on confusion

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Reddit told me Anonymous is taking credit for it. Wonder if it is true or not. Either way, I do hope this is an attack on him.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I hope he's right

[–] grumpo_potamus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

...and nothing of value was lost

[–] regrub@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Will they blame the cyber attack on DEI or Biden?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

That Biden guy has a lot of free time on his hands now. I bet he's built some gnarly botnets. Someone should look into this.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

It must have been the Russians /s