I still can't believe he nuked the Twitter brand. It was like the most valuable part of the platform. X is such a dumb, generic nothing name.
Well, now you can tweet wherever you like and don't have to invent a silly new verb for every new platform.
I like referring to it as xitter, pronounced "shitter". What were once tweets are now steaming piles of xit. Or someone taking/dropping a xit.
X-crements
It's going to be so easy for him to turn that x into a swastika in a couple of years though. Its what's known in tech circles as IED "iterative evil design"
- This is likely the first major outage of the company since Musk took ownership in 2022.
Didn't Twitter go down multiple times for similar periods of time not long after Musk fired everybody? Or am I just hallucinating wishful thinking.
Yeah I seem to remember quite a few “oh so that’s what that wire does” situations that unfolded already.
I dunno about going down entirely, but bits and pieces (like SMS verification) definitely broke while they were undoing work and cutting "expenses" (like office leases)
DDoS attacks are illegal, but what is the legal amount of times a person can call a website? I'm sure enough people doing just a few calls per second couldn't get a person into too much trouble. Has the law even defined the difference?
The legal difference would be intent; are you trying to access the website, or are you trying to bog it down? Proving intent can of course be difficult, but OTOH I don't know how much longer American courts are going to care about silly things like proof
So, exactly what must a person avoid doing to keep from exacerbating X's DDos problem today?
No, don't ever organize like this. We are on the left. We are smart and we are righteous. We do not plan and coordinate and work together in this behavior. This would be sneaky and take social skills and foresight. No we need to gather in downtown Chicago with signs and megaphones. Protest in the streets. Only protest. We're not animals like trumpets who do this stuff and get away with it and never let up. They don't know the power of chaining themselves to a fence. They don't get the rush and mighty feeling when the crowd boos you and tells you to go home and throws things at you. No they don't understand. They don't understand we do it for them.
Wonderful! May it stay that way forever.
God I hope there's some engineer somewhere at X quietly sabotaging all of their services.
Should plant a timed zip bomb on the servers that autoruns on reboot
And nothing was lost.
Now this is the kind of X news I'm okay with reading.
Although I can only imagine what this means for the US since Musk is treating the government like one of his businesses.
oh no, anyways . . .
"Something went wrong. Try Mastodon."
Reddit was like this, even way before the enshittification.
It happened so often on Reddit, it wasn't even news.
And nothing of value was lost.
But wait, isn’t this some sort of official government communication channel now? Sure there must be uptime agreements and penalties for such a thing, right? Right?!?
It would be poetic if the cyber attacks would be coming from Ukrainian hackers.
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