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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] Womble@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Millions of people's personal data gets leaked, Musk's cowboy "pry open the floor and electrical panels with a knife" electrocutes him, or blows the power for the room/floor/building or starts a fire.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk’s cowboy “pry open the floor and electrical panels with a knife” electrocutes him

That one is a risk I'm willing to take. I had to stop reading the article for a moment to marvel at just how close we really were.

[–] commandar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Elon nearly took out both himself and Peter Thiel by rolling his uninsured McClaren F1 trying to show off during the PayPal days.

What could have been.

EDIT:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/32191/did-you-know-elon-musk-wrecked-an-uninsured-mclaren-f1

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

God, it would've been some universal shit.

[–] Maybe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Isn’t all of it encrypted though? Like I understand physical access to servers is generally bad, but you’d think once the the things are unplugged it would be difficult to access the data again without bypassing encryption. I’m clearly not a software engineer though lol