You can literally fit the entire text on your phone
But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can’t serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.
You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he’s determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.
I was about to say “at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this” but anyone still a fan of him think he’s playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.
The problem is that the people he says this kind of stuff for don’t understand anything, so they just believe everything he says. If someone tries to educate them they literally can’t process the information.
“Nah he’s just trolling lol he totally got you. He made you think he was an idiot lol, a total moron lmao”
There are still people who think he’s a genius
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives
The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.
Ooh is there more info about this?
EDIT: Looks like this is it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Not stupid, just misleading stupid people. As the owner of one of the most popular websites on the internet, and the guy who killed third party APIs, there’s no way he doesn’t know what it costs to process millions of queries/day.
This implies he has learned lessons from his past mistakes - he has not. The odds are better on Must thinking the people who executed his perfect demands did those things wrong.
Yep. It didn’t come across as stupidity (not saying Musk isn’t stupid), but as someone blatantly borrowing from the Trump playbook.
Plex and IPFS has it’s place, but I still support Wikipedia as a non profit, just like you don’t need to pay to enter a library, unless your in some kind of elite library of the bleeding edge lol
Give it another year and I bet 6 to 1/2 dozen on the value of USB drives and Twitter.
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musk is dumb as a brick
Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.
I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.
A colleague of mine is one of the stupidest people I’ve ever met, but also among the most arrogant, so I say he’s like a pigeon.
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This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.
Capitalized
is… …is that a pun?
Maybe they meant anything that can be subsidized by the government.
Tesla and SpaceX take in tons of government subsidies, either directly like SoaceX, or with car enables to artificially make their cars more competitive in the market.
No no, the pun is supposed to be the first letter of the word capitalised being capitalised.
He sounds like some upper level management I’ve known. “Why does this cost so much, you’re just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?”
He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.
Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!
You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.
Sadly, management cluetards “think” otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.
I don’t think you necessarily need to know about the IT aspect if you have enough knowledge in some of the other aspects of running the business. However, if you don’t know the IT aspects, you should absolutely have a right hand person who is very familiar with the IT aspects and manages that and updates you on that side of things.
Musk has fired enough people who voiced criticism that I think he is only left with yes-men, not experts who can freely offer meaningful guidance and be taken seriously.
He is literally that guy
A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.
“Make it look like google.”
Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.
Don’t forget to mention said resource was unable to get hired at a job that paid better than your company… (which, no offense, isn’t likely to be very good if you’re having this kind of conversation)
We tended to have very expensive engineers and very cheap designers. That was emblematic of where customers placed their value and, thus, where management placed their priority in hiring.
That said, of the four designers… one went to NASA, one went to Amazon, one went to McDonald’s (leading global service design research) and then to Lyft.
They were very talented folks
The UI design of Google isn’t very hard to emulate, even by a junior frontend developer. It’s the backend that’s the really compel stuff.
I think you’re vastly underestimating the amount of research and work that goes into making Google products so easy to use.
UI isn’t just a front end development mashing their keyboard with HTML, CSS and JS. It’s hours and hours of observation, research, prototyping, pattern identification, prioritization of information, experimentation and then you create a simple white screen with one input box that does a million things.
The insane thing to me is that even if MediaWiki shut down completely with no warning, I bet we wouldn’t lose anything. We got people backing it up instantly
But you would need a new foundation, or those copies will stop being collaboratively updated. In addition, it would be difficult for people to access the information again, without a new website.
It’s a legitimate question that they don’t usually actually care about the answer to.
As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn’t he at least be aware of the operating expenses?
He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn’t pay his bills. Problem solved.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1
That would require him being aware of anything that goes into running any of his businesses, and maybe not tweeting all day from his private jets to actually pay attention to them.
Technically his website doesn’t make any money
Technically his website makes money but loses more money
What a fucking loser.
Seriously. All that power and money and he spends 100% of his free time trolling on the internet.
He isn’t trolling, he is just really, really dumb. If you ever heard him talk about something that you’re knowledgable in, you instantly realize that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
He never misses an opportunity to display how dumb is. Like, just shut up dude.
He has like 100 bajillion dollars he doesn’t need to be in charge of Twitter why did he buy it? Oh yeah that’s right because someone hurt his feelings and he thought the buying Twitter would in some way get back at them.
Yes, buying failing businesses from my enemies at quadruple their value will really show them. Such masterfully executed revenge.
The Simpsons had a joke last night about Monty Burns giving his wife Twitter, because the previous owner really shanked it and it was worth a lot less now. (I don’t recall the exact phrasing but that was the gist of it.)
And he basically just trolled about buying it before getting trapped into buying it for a terrible price because he had to make a 420 joke along with it!
It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.
This is the same guy who didn’t understand why you couldn’t just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you’re moving into a college dorm.
I just don’t understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?
He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.
He’s the richest man on Earth, for a con man that qualifies as decent at least.
If the only requirement to making stupid levels of money was being good at something, there would be a lot more millionaires i ln the world, and elon would be dirt poor.
It’s no feat for a rich guy to make money, cons or not. At a certain level of wealth society is designed so you essentially can’t lose money (unless you directly transfer all of your assets to a Bernie Madoff type or something similar).
A real con man has to have some level of skill, but Elon never had to learn to do anything competently in his entire existence.
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Here’s the de-ampified version of that link:
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
It’s really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the “Readers added context” feature. Yet.
It’s been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I’m sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.
They have been, on virtually every one of his messages. Or so I’m told.
An annoying thing about authoritarians and right-wingers is that the context doesn’t matter. People trying to have a rational discussion care, but reactionaries trolling on twitter are trying to inflict damage.
It’s not that it doesn’t matter, it’s that by the time people add context, the people that need that context already saw the tweet and move on with their life thinking that musk “owned” Wikipedia.
Its only us fuckers that don’t follow him that get these tweets with context included.
The issue with the context is that people don’t really search for old tweets, they either see it live or, sadly, read a screen capture of the tweet. If that capture was taken pre context, it doesn’t matter what users say, the twee lt will be spread as-is.
That’s a good point about the ‘liveness’ of the tweet I didn’t think about. I’m not on twitter so most tweets I see are screencaps, taken at the time of posting usually probably, for all I know tweets I see could be fake altogether hah. This feature is great for their business in more ways then, it makes it look like they care about the truthfulness of what is spread on the site, but still allows for uninformed propagandizing.
Not that I’ve seen.
It will be next on the chopping block after this.
Or you’ll have to pay to add context.
So, how long before the “Readers added additonal context” feature mysteriously vanishes?
I could’ve sworn it had already been disappeared. I guess I’m misremembering.
The moderation for it has disappeared. So often it’s just right wing bs these days
Ah, right. That’s what it was. I guess I figured the feature went with the team he fired. Of course he just left it running unmonitored.
Kinda surprised it’s still there, honestly.
He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.
So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]
He’ll just be screeching “Dr Fauci” in a bird voice next. I hear that’s what passes for comedy on the right.
He is a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine. Can you tell if the following quote is by him or I made it up?
“I’ll give them a million dollars if they change their name to ‘Dickipedia’.”
It’s crazy how a few years ago Zuck seemed like the worst tech billionaire CEO ridiculed by his users, but Musk truly managed to take this title and surpass him to become the most hated man on the internet. He needs help
Zuck is evil, but he doesn’t seem to be stupid.
Elon on the other hand…
Exactly. Zuckerberg is just an immoral fuckface. Musk is malicious and incompetent.
He wrote the first iteration of Facebook in PHP. The Musk of programming languages.
Why do people have beef with PHP? It’s just a programming language for crying out loud
Yeah PHP’s parents never owned an emerald mine.
There was this brief, beautiful moment when Musk seemed respectable. He was into renewables, and electrification, and investing in space. It sounded great. And then he opened his fucking mouth and just hasn’t shut it since. Once he started talking, everyone else started noticing and publishing all the terrible shit that was there all along but no one either knew or cared about until then.
Twitter killed (the image of) Elon, and now Elon is dragging Twitter to the grave with him.
Definitely agree on him needing help. His behaviour isn’t normal, considering his behaviour even 5 years prior. Musk 10 years ago was probably still an idiot, but a private idiot and less of a man-child than today.
Stupid question, but is there some law in the US where someone can be detained for mental health reasons, to be evaluated to see if they pose a risk to themselves or others? Perhaps someone close to him should check that everything is fine, and if not, get him away from the half dozen companies he seems to be running into the ground.
Hated mostly by the left. Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
From where you’re standing, everyone is left.
How so
Today people that praise Elon Musk are often far-right reactionaries, or at the least very much not of the ‘left’ on the political spectrum.
Like the totally normal shooter whose Twitter account views were more than half dedicated to musk… Along with literally every right wing extremist for the other half. Also America has no left.
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Have no idea what you mean, please cite reliable sources
The recent mass shooter in Maine liked and shared posts by Elon Musk. https://crimedoor.com/articles/robert-cards-twitter-feed-under-scrutiny-for-clues/
Yeah, right. As if you respect reliable sources. Prove it by giving sources for “normal people respect” him.
I don’t care to put in that much effort for a guy that can’t understand why his kids hate him or the shooter that worshipped him. You can probably find it by searching for: Elon scrubbed shooter Twitter/x account, but I honestly doubt you care beyond finding some way to continue to simp or white knight for ya Xdaddy.
If you still respect Elon Musk after every obvious display of stupidity and incompetence he’s shown, I think that says a lot about how willing people are to kiss the ass of billionaires on the right, and that’s just sad. Musk doesn’t give a fuck about you.
Please give specific examples, cite sources
Username doesn’t quite check out
Edit: Want an example? Just scroll to the top of this thread and you’ll find one. Need something bigger and more concrete? Try justifying the whole blue checkmark ordeal.
Check out his profile. He’s a walking MAGA meme.
Oh dear… and his instance just allows that?
Is there a problem with that?
Yeah, your supporting a traitor that should be behind bars for life not running for president of the US
Hated mostly by people who actually think for themselves, and don’t mindlessly worship the rich.
Prove me wrong.
Normal people lmao
Hated mostly by the left.
Yes.
Among normal people he is innovative and well respected
Well, eh, not really.
Who is a specific normal person that has written anything praising Elon Musk? He is respected by some but I am concerned by what you would define as a normal person.
Attacking Twitter then and now attacking Wikipedia. You can tell he want so hard to hide information and with starlink in his control it might happen.
Starlink has lost a lot of satellites. Makes me wonder if they can sustain it.
Sounds like they should lose a few more to be sure.
Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?
Dude has become a shitty combination of Tucker and Trump
“Just asking stupid questions”
Just asking stupid questions seems like a Joe Rogan thing.
Musk asks stupid, leading questions. Pretending he’s Socrates, leading you to a truth he understands and you don’t.
Wikipedia actually strives to pay it’s bills
Yet is makes a huge profit every year from fundraisers.
it makes >null< profit, or >NaN< profit as it is a non-profit organization, thus it cannot make a profit even if it wanted to.
Books get balanced the the profit goes to the companies leads.
again, there is no profit
you are asking where the golf clubs are during a game of basketball
if you’re going to use the term “profit” you can’t redefine what it means
yes, non profit companies pay their employed staff through raised income, this is not new information
thats a dog whistle.
What do you think the covert message translates to, overtly?
Wikipedia is a tool of the “Globalists” (we know who those are) to brainwash poor conservatives.
Ugh, i hate that you’re most likely right
Right wing grifters rely on people being uneducated, so any tool that allows people to educate themselves needs to be vilified.
