Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

[two sheds]

looks more like a chicken

 

[magneze]

I'd say Telegram has taken a lot of that function tbh, and it'll tend to accelerate because the team that used to monitor how authoritarian States were fucking with people got canned.

Interesting. I thought Telegram was mostly unencrypted too.

 

[tommers]

I saw this so now you have to too:
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Never mind the picture, his tweet is astonishing. "I'm changing shit in a live environment without fully understanding what will happen. We have no mirror environment to test consequences in either".

 

[tommers]

 

[Orang Utan]

Interesting. I thought Telegram was mostly unencrypted too.

Not sure what this unencrypted/crusted fuss is about, considering it’s irrelevant when one party just forwards the entire conversation to a journalist. Encrypted messages my arse

 

[Sue]

Never mind the picture, his tweet is astonishing. "I'm changing shit in a live environment without fully understanding what will happen. We have no mirror environment to test consequences in either".

The code stack was brittle. Just a wafer-thin API change and .

 

[Storm Fox]

A genius's guide to business:

1. Fire most of the dedicated people who knows how things work.
2. Make random request for code changes.
3. Break stuff as you've fired the most dedicated people who know how things work.
4. Lose a lot of your user base
5. Hire loads of new people to rewrite the code from scratch. costing more than the ones you fired.
6. ????
7. Profit

 

[Rob Ray]

Interesting. I thought Telegram was mostly unencrypted too.

It's got encryption but does grab IP addresses, so Signal is safer in that sense (comparisons here). The big draw on Telegram though is it can handle groups of up to 200,000 in a more social media-ish setup with mostly "good enough" protection and isn't subject to the whims of Musk or Zuck. It's had breaches, but was also the big name during the Belarus protests rather than Twitter. And has been extremely influential in the Ukraine conflict.

 

[Yossarian]

A genius's guide to business:

1. Fire most of the dedicated people who knows how things work.
2. Make random request for code changes.
3. Break stuff as you've fired the most dedicated people who know how things work.
4. Lose a lot of your user base
5. Hire loads of new people to rewrite the code from scratch. costing more than the ones you fired.
6. ????
7. Profit

6. DefEat THE woKE hiVE minD

 

[two sheds]

The other platforms should advertise "not owned and controlled by Musk"

 

[BigMoaner]

A genius's guide to business:

1. Fire most of the dedicated people who knows how things work.
2. Make random request for code changes.
3. Break stuff as you've fired the most dedicated people who know how things work.
4. Lose a lot of your user base
5. Hire loads of new people to rewrite the code from scratch. costing more than the ones you fired.
6. ????
7. Profit

Don't forget a few weeks of seemingly manning the IT help desk

 

[BigMoaner]

6. DefEat THE woKE hiVE minD

Make BrAvE NeW WoRlD memes because of sjw tic tockers

 

[Storm Fox]

More:



Than:

 

[BigMoaner]

He'll crash, then get pissed or something on Bro Rogan and his career will start all over again. He just has to mumble some shit about you can't say anything any more and free speech and he'll be up and away again.

 

[BigMoaner]

The Age of The Bellends.

The Bellend Era.

 

[Yossarian]

La Bellend Epoch

 

[tommers]

LOL.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Never mind the picture, his tweet is astonishing. "I'm changing shit in a live environment without fully understanding what will happen. We have no mirror environment to test consequences in either".

"Just make code more efficient"

"Oh also prioritise my tweets and implement Twitter blue blue blue balls + by the end of play or your fired"

 

[two sheds]

LOL.

He'll be sacked as incompetent, too, then, leaving that work to be done by .... oh wait

 

[JimW]

Pay peanuts, get brittle.

 

[Joe Chi Min]

 

[Nylock]

Jesus christ.

 

[Rob Ray]

If millennials got one thing right it's lampooning boomer men (or Gen X in this case) over that sort of shit.

 

[two sheds]

This sort of response needs to happen more often

 

[bimble]

at this point, musk saying he's had a massive alcohol / coke problem, posted all the terrible memes whilst under the influence and is checking himself into rehab for a bit would be his actual best move reputationally and in terms of ever getting serious investment again, but he won't obvs.

 

[tommers]

The man is such a prick. This is so unnecessary.

 

[Yossarian]

at this point, musk saying he's had a massive alcohol / coke problem, posted all the terrible memes whilst under the influence and is checking himself into rehab for a bit would be his actual best move reputationally and in terms of ever getting serious investment again, but he won't obvs.

"I'm terribly sorry, I thought I was living in a computer simulation."

We're Probably Living in a Simulation, Elon Musk Says

We're all probably trapped in a "Matrix"-like pseudoexistence, SpaceX chief Elon Musk said early Friday (Sept. 7) during a long, wide-ranging and very entertaining appearance on comedian Joe Rogan's p

www.space.com

 

[Ax^]

A genius's guide to business:

1. Fire most of the dedicated people who knows how things work.
2. Make random request for code changes.
3. Break stuff as you've fired the most dedicated people who know how things work.
4. Lose a lot of your user base
5. Hire loads of new people to rewrite the code from scratch. costing more than the ones you fired.
6. ????
7. Profit

sounds like brexit

 

[bimble]

The man is such a prick. This is so unnecessary.

this is the guy he was Hilariously Trolling there.

Haraldur Þorleifsson Sweeps Person of the Year Awards

Haraldur Þorleifsson, known as Halli, has swept several Person of the Year awards in Icelandic media. Ramp Up Iceland...

www.icelandreview.com

 

[Yossarian]

"He claimed to be disabled but was still able to use Twitter? Curious."

Weird take, but I wouldn't expect any better from someone who apparently doesn't realise that the bosses were not the good guys in Office Space.