an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit
an analysis of that one time musk disassembled twitter’s biggest datacenter in a manic fit
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…
there’s an alternate universe version of this where musk’s attendant sycophants and bodyguard have to fish his electrocuted/suffocated/crushed body out from the crawlspace he wedged himself into with a pocket knife
Funniest detail to me is that this server lobotomy apparently fucked up Ron DeSanti’s stupid Twitter Spaces candidacy announcement. Of course RdS is never gonna be prez no matter how much techbros are fluffing him.
Of course RdS is never gonna be prez
Trump might die. He is 77. (Which is also why the crazy Kennedy is a bit scary. I don't expect America to do the normal thing this season).
Trump kicking the bucket before the nomination would be the funniest thing ever. There's no given successor. Every other candidate apart from Christie pays him fealty. There's no Trump ideology, it's all what he says at any given moment. Thus, there's no candidate who can state "I will continue Trump's legacy", because it's never been clearly stated what that legacy is. The GOP donors want someone who can continue to deliver tax cuts and gut welfare, but they're probably not as interested in pursuing the culture wars. The base, OTOH, just want red meat. And the people promising them the meat are in general hugely unpopular among the general electorate. RdS is there. People simply find him unlikeable.
Sadly Trump's parents lived long, so there's no chance he'll die.
He definitely does not eject usb drives before pulling them out
before learning about how file management works: fuck yeah let’s pull out that drive, yolo
After: ok I’m gonna triple check to make sure it’s ejected, replug and check nothing bad happened, then eject it again
We need more stories that disillusion us not just about Musk but in general about these kind of antics. Since I feel like a big icon of this kind of trope is Richard Feynman, I will henceforth in this comment refer to the protagonist of any such story as Richard Brainman.
There are too many stories about how Brainman goes around ignoring rules and reasonable concerns and uses his nerd powers to prove a point. I’ll admit that sometimes these stories are fun capers but I think we’ve glorified them too much. Brainman only wins sometimes! Usually he gets crushed under the server racks, which is hard to make a movie about.
no random dipshits coming to this asshole’s defense yet? I must not have included enough keywords for them to find it in a search
Oddly (well not that oddly) it seems that not many people are jumping to Musks defense anymore. I see it a lot less at least. (blockin blues on twitter also helps so you get rid of the 'I defend musk because he is great, and not just because im including the name of the cryptocurrency token I want to offload on fools in my posts'.
Anyway ontopic, OSHA and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
(And pretty basic shit about how to upgrade a datacenter making his head hurt confirms to me even more he isn't that much of a technical guy (and with Mudge admitting (he is the twitter security whistleblower) that their security sucked this whole 'transporting the servers unsupervised' shit should leave everybody worried).
E: looks like he has lost the new yorker https://nitter.net/NewYorker/status/1701835157341093957 As the kids these days say, it is so over.
Am I the only one surprised they managed to enter the server rack room in the first place?
you’re right, most secure data centers are more paranoid about access than this, even if they had a server room to themselves. I’m assuming the part of the story we’re not getting is the intensifying sequence of billionaire manbaby meltdowns musk had every time he was told no, which you can kind of see by how the folks running the data center treated the damage he was doing to their infrastructure towards the end. very much “fuck it, I’m tired of getting yelled at, let him do it and we’ll bill or sue him later,” which is kind of a foolish approach when you know musk doesn’t pay
If they have a full room to themselves, a DC might let them fuck around without supervision. There's no way I would let them into the structural/electrical bits without seeing his signature under the mother of all responsibility waivers, though.
After that, if this was just a regular asshole I'd hope their fuckaround trip goes without a major incident both to save myself from a lot of trouble and out of common decency towards a fellow human. This particular asshole would really be testing the limits of the latter.
Yeah, the manbaby tantrums were my guess too
Bluster and force and intimidation go a hell of a long way on people who don’t necessarily know what backing power they have (which a lot of people in gate/door control roles often fall into)
I’m quite unsurprised they got that access
Not really, Mudge (hacker, twitter whistleblower) already said that security before the Muskening was horrible. So for a normal datacenter it would be a big surprise, but for twitter not really.
That was a bit surprising to me too, apparently no floor scale in the airlock leading to the server floor, or not even an airlock just a door. Also no security supervision, or at least one which was letting things slide.
DCs without the first half of your comment vastly (vastly) outnumber DCs with it
From the “also no” bit: hard to tell. They may have been there and just not mentioned, etc
"This brought back memories of the crush and electrical injuries I've heard of when there's insufficient datacentre safety."
Of course originally at: https://octodon.social/@cwood/111055481742842480
It's somewhat infuriating that all of my datacenter adventures have ended up with lacerations on my hands at a minimum, and yet he did not have a single object fall on him. It's almost enough to make me believe in a hateful sadistic deity who protects billionaires.
Or it was elided from the retelling (which I could see happening if, e.g., everyone got hurt and just accepted it as “part of the process” and thought nothing more of it)