The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

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• WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So there are only two possibilities - either Vichy Twitter is such a poorly run site that it crashed on its own, or it’s such a poorly run site that it’s not prepared to deal with being DDOSed.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its probably fairly straightforward:

    Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.

    Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.

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    • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn’t.

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    • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember they just turned “off” their microservice architechture, or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.

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    • PwnTra1n@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?

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    • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its probably just… a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.

      So a Group Hug of Death.

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    • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Xhitters full. Don’t light a match or it will blow - it sucks though.

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    • suction@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Twitter is such a poorly run site

    It’s run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I’m assuming bad infrastructure

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  • rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Time to bring back the fail whale

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Make it a Starship exploding with dogecoins flying out of it.

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  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Vichy Twitter

    I’m stealing this! It’s way too good!

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    • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I stole it myself, so you’re welcome to it.

      I have no idea who originated it, but from the first time I saw it, I haven’t used anything else. It just so perfectly sums it up.

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• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • bluemellophone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!”

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Did Trump tell him how rude it was to start 42 minutes late due to technical issues, or is Musk a white man?

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  • ech@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trump didn’t cause it, so he had not need to project.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A real missed opportunity to wait 3 more minutes at wait for his presidential number. Or wait 3 more years for him to be dead.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    or is Musk a white man?

    Couldn’t possibly be because he’s not only one of the wealthiest men on Earth, but also Trump’s biggest and most-powerful supporter? Nono, must be racism. That makes way more sense.

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    • UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or maybe a little from column A and a little from column B

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  • xc2215x@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No. He did not.

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• dogsnest@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, your girl’s got moves!

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    • Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But are those Indian moves or Black moves?

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could it be because Xitter is made up of spaghetti code hosted on cheapest possible hardware?

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  • Botzo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Absolutely.

    Sidenote: I keep seeing “xitter” being used, is it safe to assume it’s pronounced “shitter”?

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    • EisFrei@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You assume correctly

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    • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Xit that’s funny!

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bingo!

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Xi sounds like Shi in Mandarin.

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I sometimes instead call it Twatter, especially as it’s now full of bigoted twats.

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• Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  X is reeling this morning after its website crashed last night due to an orchestrated attack on its servers during its Elon / Trump interview. A spokesperson for X said that the attack seemed to have been orchestrated by foreign state actor. “We are currently looking for a group of roughly 900,000 people who could have carried out such an attack to silence Trump.” The spokesperson said it was clearly a foreign nation. “X couldn’t possibly have failed due to too many concurrent listeners. According to our latest figures, there are only 10 actual people who aren’t bots that still use X, 5 of which are confused and still think it’s Twitter.” Tech experts said that they had never seen such a sophisticated and well organised attempt to flood the servers, using millions of different points of attack. The experts say the attack was highly organised. “In order to get millions of computers to participate at the same time, the perpetrators harnessed social media to encourage people to flood the servers, and overload the website. This was sophisticated stuff.” “They announced their attack day months ago, and then worked methodically to make sure everyone remembered the attack date.” “The perpetrators must have known that no computer server can withstand the load of an entire nation trying to access the same website at the same time on the same day.” —

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  • Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love it! Reads like an onion article lol

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    • raqqed@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      wait what… this really is the official statement and not an onion article?!

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  • Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I admit, you had me till the ‘900,000’ people part

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  • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My favorite was the bit about the increased chocolate rations! 😄

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• poprocks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Trump is slurring in a way I’ve never heard from him before,” remarked podcaster Susan Simpson. “Elon sounds like this is maybe the third or fourth time he’s had a conversation with a fellow human.” This is my favorite comment

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• eyjohn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s what happens when the first thing you do is fire all the Site Reliability Engineers… Apparently he stack-ranked engineers based on most lines of code (SREs generally write less code and even often delete code) and fired the lower end of that scale.

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  • ashok36@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Elegant, efficient code? Who needs that shit?

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  • yopla@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So he’s left with a bunch of copy-paster ?

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    • devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s always those that are well appreciated in the corporate bullshit hamster wheel.

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    • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hear that an intern accidentally committed their node_modules folder, and now they’re a staff engineer responsible for the live video streaming service. What a career trajectory! 🚀

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, those actually finish code.

      The ones who will write everything by hand.

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  • EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While it’s not LOC, you would be amazed at how many companies stack rank on stuff like number of PR’s, how many revisions are needed to merge, size of changes, etc. I’m not talking about small companies either - FAANG companies, and not just one.

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could it be that Lonnie is a lying liar? No, not the man who has promised “full self driving” for like a decade and still hasn’t delivered it… He’s not a lying liar, right?

  Lonnie lies like a mother fucker. But not as much as the orange shithead.

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• nycki@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is this on c/Technology? Musk isn’t twitter and twitter isn’t tech news.

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  • null@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One if the largest social media platforms having tech issues isn’t tech news?

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  • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because technology 🅱️roke

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  • TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sadly, Musk IS Xitter atm :/

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  • OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is an article about a tech disaster. “Tech disaster” is literally in the title.

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  • doodledup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because gotta hate on Musk.

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• son_named_bort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Offtopic, but my son is also named Bort.

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    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      awkward look meme

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    • Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is @son_named_bort@lemmy.world a son who is named bort? Or are they saying they have a son named Bort?

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• Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The F(elon) Musk interview.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    e-lone skum

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• Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  By Twitter’s standards, the “DDoS” is probably just a lot of people tuning in.

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  • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seems like a regular thing happening on Xitter nowadays. Another day, another heavy load that doesn’t flush, I guess.

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  • gnate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Elon tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load

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• maxenmajs@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why is this so familiar? Didn’t he already try and fall to prop up another Republican ghoul the same way? I wonder what the last engineer not fired at Twitter is doing. They still haven’t fixed Twitter’s livestreaming.

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  • mzesumzira@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I seem to remember a similar blunder as well, maybe it was DeSantis?

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• HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How is X still up? I am equally surprised many are still on the platform given all the bad performance and rate limitations.

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• Ghostwurm@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Donald didn’t want to do it live

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• AidsKitty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice that there is one candidate that does interviews.

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