Submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to technology@lemmy.world
Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…
"What I wasn’t told was that we had 70,000 hard-coded references to Sacramento. And there’s still shit that’s broken because of it.”" Im pretty sure he was told but was either not really listening or comprehending.
Yeah “I wasn’t told” is really “I wasn’t listening” in narcissist language.
“I wasn’t notified in triplicate, in writing, with the relevant sections underlined and requiring my signature for acknowledgment”
Spot on
I’m sure he was told… But brain exploding emoji
The manager began to explain in detail some of the obstacles to relocating the servers to Portland. “It has different rack densities, different power densities,” she said. “So the rooms need to be upgraded.” She started to give a lot more details, but after a minute, Musk interrupted. “This is making my brain hurt,” he said. “I’m sorry, that was not my intention,” she replied in a measured monotone. “Do you know the head-explosion emoji?” he asked her. “That’s what my head feels like right now. What a pile of f—ing bulls—. Jesus H f—ing Christ. Portland obviously has tons of room. It’s trivial to move servers one place to another.”
Sounds like he did his best to make sure no one could tell him
She
Well, there’s your first problem. Musk doesn’t give a shit about what women think. The man is an Entire misogynist. He probably zoned out listening to this woman and wondered how many horses it would cost to get a handy out of her.
I’m shocked that the data center required retinal scans but that the employee with access could then just hold the door and let him and others in.
I used to work at a data center with lots of security. To get into the area with the servers you had to go through a man trap. It was a room a little larger than a telephone booth with automatic doors on both sides. To open the first door you needed a physical card key. Once inside the door closed, then to open the inner door you needed to both enter a PIN and have your hand scanned in a biometric scanner. Only after all that could you get inside. The booth also weighed you, and if your weight was off by a certain amount after your last pass through then it wouldn’t let you in. That was to prevent somebody from piggybacking with you.
lmao mental image of Daniel Craig riding someone piggyback in a tuxedo and holding a silenced pistol
Prop yourself from wall to wall so your weight doesn’t count.
It’ll only work if you use three Bonds’ in a trench coat!
How do you get big equipments (e.g.a pallet of server components) into the area?
Separate double bay doors. They have a pair of each floor that opens to an outside wall. You use a forklift to get the pallets up. That or there is a big ass freight elevator, depending on the data center.
likely admin override right? i think as a lowly employee this is what he had to do
Oh, god, so that little death hallway to the red queen in resident evil was ACCURATE
Even the smaller data center I used to go to would have an alarm go off if the door was open for more than a few seconds. The first door opened with your hand being scanned and the cage to our racks could be opened with a key card.
How did they get racks in there? Or like big blade servers?
I’m sure there were other, larger, entry points that could be opened for moving equipment in and out. They would then be locked down during normal operation.
The booth also weighed you, and if your weight was off by a certain amount after your last pass through then it wouldn’t let you in.
Fatphobic security smh.
My understanding is you can be as heavy as you want, you just can’t gain more than 20kg in a week
That’s pretty cool, sounds like some MacGyver shit!
What a fucking moron. This is the guy whose self-driving car you trust?
Nope. Once upon a time long ago I thought I wanted a Tesla. Now? I’d rather drive a Ford Focus.
I feel personally attacked here.
Luckily, he’s not the one making them!
Nope, just the CEO of the company that has regularly overridden the decisions of his engineers, driving anyone with any actual experience away.
Autonomous vehicles built by hundreds of first-year software engineering graduates seems like a good idea though.
Hs still impacts critical decisions. He needs to be kept very far away from money and business.
This is the same guy who wants to put implants into people’s brains and send them to Mars. Let that sink in.
Yeah, I literally just sent this article to my wife with the commentary “…and this is why I no longer think we should ever buy a Tesla”
I don’t want this egomaniac in charge of anything that has real-world safety implications for me and mine.
“Look, just hand me scalpel and I’ll do it.”
“look, just go to home Depot and get a carpet knife fie 1/10th of the cost!”
Lmao, Musk is the new Gary Young, the supplment king. Behind the Bastards did an episode on him, he really wanted to be a surgeon without that pesky medical license requirement.
I am all for billionaires wanting go to Mars. They will just be on their own, getting back. Oopise daisy, the rocket only had enough fuel go to Mars and not back. If they want to come back, well they all that wealth to pay us and we’ll get them, one day…soon…eventually…maybe…probably not.
Sounds like a very complicated solution to a problem you could solve with a guillotine.
If you’re cold, they’re cold. Let those sinks in!
They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they could move them now. It was the type of impulsive, impractical, surge-into-the-breach idea that Musk loved.
Musk and his renegade team were rolling servers out without putting them in crates or swaddling them in protective material, then using store-bought straps to secure them in the truck. “I’ve never loaded a semi before,” James admitted.
The moving contractors that NTT wanted them to use charged $200 an hour. So James went on Yelp and found a company named Extra Care Movers that would do the work at one-tenth the cost.
The servers had user data on them, and James did not initially realize that, for privacy reasons, they were supposed to be wiped clean before being moved. … So James sent someone to Home Depot to buy big padlocks, and they sent the combination codes on a spreadsheet to Portland so the trucks could be opened there. “I can’t believe it worked,” James says.
LMAO who’s this James guy and why does he understand Musk so thoroughly like his own spouse?
Plot twist: Elon and James are the same person. Like in Fight Club.
James is the personality that comes out during particularly extreme manic episodes.
So all the dumb shit that Musk has done over the past year is all just part of project mayhem. (Don’t eat the soup, it has piss in it)
On CHRISTMAS FUCKING EVE! He has like 10 kids. He started a fire drill for employees on Christmas Eve, they have families too. What a cartoonishly villainous thing to do.
I think James is Elon’s cousin.
James Musk is more of as “a fixer type,” helping Elon Musk on various tasks, one insider said.
Twitter employees must’ve dreaded seeing this guy. “Oh no, Elon is with James again. Shit is about to hit the fan”
But a cousin of Musk suggested to Musk that they just do it themselves, while they were flying from the Bay Area to Austin
One day, one of these stunts he pulls is going to end up ruining whatever company he does it in, and I’m all here for it. Though we’ll probably never know since he’ll just blame it on something / someone else and his little muskettes will follow along.
Hey now, you might be on to something here…
Shhh… don’t tell him how this year went. It’ll ruin the story.
Did someone say Jews? 👀
Looks like he is literally asking for trouble with decisions like that. It’s just a matter of time until he manages to cause a major disaster.
Elon Musk is a manchild who never grew out of his teenager phase, throwing around his inherited wealth like the kid from Blank Check and throwing temper tantrums anytime someone calls him out on his bullshit. Any claims to success he may have had been entirely in spite of him, not because of him. He doesn’t have any fucking idea what he’s doing and if any one of you or I failed even a fraction as much as Musk had, we’d have all been fired ten times over.
Sounds a lot like another conservative figurehead I could name…
Actually, it sounds a lot like almost all conservative figureheads in US politics.
They’re completely idiotic and yet way more successful that I’ll ever be. But then again I have a guilty conscience.
And that’s why their base votes for them. Because they can relate.
That is an insult to teenagers
It’s a total lack of the concept of scale. I’ve moved servers like this, but when decommissioning them. Things are different when running a corporate data center than when moving a home lab. He doesn’t grasp the difference, because he doesn’t understand the scale.
Running and moving one computer is different from 150k of them. Hooking them back up the the network without a plan or documentation must have been a challenge.
I love how a data center is not considered reliable unless it has something like 99.9% uptime. It was costing him so much for a damn good reason.
And yet this idiot decided to start unplugging servers by himself at 2 in the morning.
Did he not realize that he’d have to pay the DC company for at least the quarter, regardless of if the servers are physically there or not? It’s not like you pay these places by the hour. They’re payed for by months or years, and there’s contracts involved.
He still had to pay the bill, I guarantee it. He also just wasted thousands of dollars paying random people from the street to move multi-million dollar servers, and opened himself up to millions of dollars in liability if any sensitive information was lost or stolen during this stunt.
Why do people give this man money again?
i mean, he may very well not have paid. this is the guy who refused to pay rent on headquarters, and two different people quit/were fired because they wouldn’t just… not pay rent on his orders.
has he paid rent since? as far as i can tell, he just gets away with this shit.
So glad I ended up not working at Tesla
His most valuable lieutenants at Tesla and SpaceX had learned ways to deflect his bad ideas and drip-feed him unwelcome information, but the legacy employees at X didn’t know how to handle him.
This is fucking insane and would drive me nuts.
This guy really is a Space Karen
The CEO then told him that some of the floors could not handle more than 500 pounds of pressure, so rolling a 2,000-pound server would cause damage. Musk replied that the servers had four wheels, so the pressure at any one point was only 500 pounds. “The dude is not very good at math,” Musk told the musketeers.
This guy is considered to be a genius? This guy is a fucking billionaire?
I’m dead.
Funny thing is this kind of behaviour isn’t unique to Musk. A lot of entrepreneurs and CEOs seem to have similar kind of attitude. They want everything done cheaper faster and there’s no 2 ways about it. It’s their way or highway. If shit goes to hell it’s other people’s heads that roll.
I do not think it is a coincidence that Tesla has recently released the updated Model 3 to some decently positive reviews. I think that is in no small part to Musk being so distracted by Twitter that he hasn’t been able to fuck up things over at Tesla in a while.
OK that’s it. Tesla cars are now out of the question for me and if I ever get the chance to ride on a SpaceX ship (not very likely) I think I’d decline. Totally different companies ofc but the same master “mind” behind.
This guy represents everything that you do not want to see in a CEO.
NO THANK YOU
Note the pattern: a willingness to ignore the details of what could go wrong, YOLO it and just test it out, and the assumption that if nothing goes wrong when you do that, it means that everything is fine and nothing else could possibly go wrong.
Did anyone else reading this bit immediately think of that other rich idiot that died in his ridiculous submarine?
He got lucky nothing disappeared.
At a previous work place they rounded up a few employees to move stuff from one office to the new office. That ended up with a few monitors less than they started with. They couldn’t ask who took it because they never wrote down who they rounded up for the move.
And that’s how companies end up with a bunch of silly regulations how you’re not allowed to move any hardware to the next room
This is why I wouldn’t trust a thing that comes out of his mouth. He lies, he says really stupid shit and then he gives people an ultimatum to turn his stupid shit into reality or get fired. Safety, security and reality be damned. If you’ve ever wondered why people end up dying in fiery crashes because of “autopilot”, or “full self drive”, this is why.
One of the richest people in the world, everyone.
Does anyone care anymore ?
They were somewhere over Las Vegas when James made his suggestion that they were in batshitcrazy country.
elonMusk is not the problem, people who continue to use twitter are!
I really hope someone will just push musk out a window. He’s so incredibly stupid he doesn’t deserve his money or power.
Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these is why I stopped using twitter and reddit to begin with. Hur dur, Elon bad, upvotes please. I don’t disagree - I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. Time for a mute.
What a giant twat muskrat is.
Imagine one day, he walks into spacex, board on a rocket, and shoot to mars… just like this!
Maybe someone should trigger him in twitter
I’ve heard of chaos testing going as far as walking into a DC and pulling plugs until alarms start going off, but this is just awful all around.
A fractal Rube Goldberg machine
Welcome to software engineering Elon.
So, what was he actually there to grab, while doing this little song and dance. What was on that server that he was trying to hide? 🤔🤔🤔
Batshit crazy for a normal person, just another day for Elon.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This article is fucking hilarious top to bottom and if you came here to comment without reading, I *highly suggest you read it.
Absolutely worth the time.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pocket-knife-prying-open-floorboards crazy. Biggest asshole I’ve ever read about crazy.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Jesus, I thought you were just using that as a figure of speech so that we could all understand that Space Daddy Musk was exhibiting meth-head-like tendencies, but no, he literally diverted a flight from Austin to Sac at the suggestion of his cousin, drove in a Corolla to the data center, and used his pocket knife to pry up the floorboards.
Fuck, how much cocaine has he been doing? He’s about to hit John McAfee levels of bad decision making.
Also, Elon, I was just kidding about the “Space Daddy” stuff. If you want to send a few pounds of blow my way, HMU.
merde@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
just imagine the face of “Alex the Uzbek” while he is watching the manChild pry open the floorboards knowing that he should stop the maniac and calculating that he shouldn’t stop the second richest man in the world 🤣
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Good article. Nobody else would get away with being this risk taking and careless, and the only reason he does get away wirh it is because he is the boss.
PHLAK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Money is one hell of a drug.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You were right, I wasn’t gonna read it because I knew he was an idiot but the article is hilarious and everyone should read it.
casmael@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Techdirt is the shit tbh