A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.
Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.
So not only is he lying about a DDOS, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it’s politically motivated by the “opposition” - when Trump basically has mouth diarrhea 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from being heard on his 100 other ways exposing himself to the public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.
bluemellophone@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
I didn’t think Twitter Spaces was anything but audio, though? Like they’re not streaming 8k video over here like Apple, it’s likely garbage phone audio. No?
odelik@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
It’s not just the data transfer. It’s also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling the kind of things can be a nightmare.
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Most likely a dev did not want to get fired so he put the blame on a unknown bad actor instead and musk believed, lol
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Or Musk has sycophants running IT who can’t tell the difference.
“So I’ve got this script that will make 20k simultaneous requests and average the response time to determine if we’re being DDOSed. Someone’s got it out for us because there’s a short DDOS attack every single time I run the script! These guys are good, whoever they are! I’ll trace some IPs… Oh shit. The DDOS is coming from inside the building! Better fire some more people. And don’t worry, I’ll be running my DDOS detector script a lot for the interview to make sure we don’t get attacked!”
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
🤣
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Dude if there’s one thing we’ve done it’s listen to far too much of the drivel that man has to say.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
He’s just trying to avoid having to admit that X is an unreliable platform due to him firing all the people that kept it stable. That would mean having to admit his own decisions are not always perfect, and someone of his temperament can’t admit that.