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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day 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 91 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just get "big balls" to fix it

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day 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.

Your reply got hacked by the period boys.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

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

[–] JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 day 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 14 points 1 day 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 day 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.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

I blame it on Musks decisions.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 64 points 1 day 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 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The answer is simple. MORE FIRINGS

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago

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 8 points 1 day ago

The firings will continue until quality improves

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

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

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

Will someone please think of the Nazis 🥹?

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

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

[–] ArghlBarghlFooFera@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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.

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

So he’s not smart enough to prevent it.

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

And probably fired the people who were working on preventing this

[–] VeryInterestingTable@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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.

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

(us giving energy to Anonymous)

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 1 day ago

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

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

I hope he's right

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

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

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

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

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

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

That's not what she said.

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

Well NOW how are nazis supposed to be publically racist?

[–] DogEarBookmark@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

X hurt itself on confusion

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

Guy took his eye off da ballz

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day 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.

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

...and nothing of value was lost

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

Will they blame the cyber attack on DEI or Biden?

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 day ago

It must have been the Russians /s