toot by @MissingThePt@mastodon.social
You can literally fit the entire text on your phone
But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can’t serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.
You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he’s determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.
I was about to say “at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this” but anyone still a fan of him think he’s playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives
The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.
Ooh is there more info about this?
EDIT: Looks like this is it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Not stupid, just misleading stupid people. As the owner of one of the most popular websites on the internet, and the guy who killed third party APIs, there’s no way he doesn’t know what it costs to process millions of queries/day.
Plex and IPFS has it’s place, but I still support Wikipedia as a non profit, just like you don’t need to pay to enter a library, unless your in some kind of elite library of the bleeding edge lol
Give it another year and I bet 6 to 1/2 dozen on the value of USB drives and Twitter.
musk is dumb as a brick
I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.
This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.
Maybe they meant anything that can be subsidized by the government.
Tesla and SpaceX take in tons of government subsidies, either directly like SoaceX, or with car enables to artificially make their cars more competitive in the market.
He sounds like some upper level management I’ve known. “Why does this cost so much, you’re just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?”
He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.
You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.
Sadly, management cluetards “think” otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.
I don’t think you necessarily need to know about the IT aspect if you have enough knowledge in some of the other aspects of running the business. However, if you don’t know the IT aspects, you should absolutely have a right hand person who is very familiar with the IT aspects and manages that and updates you on that side of things.
Musk has fired enough people who voiced criticism that I think he is only left with yes-men, not experts who can freely offer meaningful guidance and be taken seriously.
A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.
“Make it look like google.”
Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.
Don’t forget to mention said resource was unable to get hired at a job that paid better than your company… (which, no offense, isn’t likely to be very good if you’re having this kind of conversation)
The UI design of Google isn’t very hard to emulate, even by a junior frontend developer. It’s the backend that’s the really compel stuff.
The insane thing to me is that even if MediaWiki shut down completely with no warning, I bet we wouldn’t lose anything. We got people backing it up instantly
As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn’t he at least be aware of the operating expenses?
He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn’t pay his bills. Problem solved.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1
What a fucking loser.
Seriously. All that power and money and he spends 100% of his free time trolling on the internet.
He isn’t trolling, he is just really, really dumb. If you ever heard him talk about something that you’re knowledgable in, you instantly realize that he has no idea what he’s talking about.
He never misses an opportunity to display how dumb is. Like, just shut up dude.
He has like 100 bajillion dollars he doesn’t need to be in charge of Twitter why did he buy it? Oh yeah that’s right because someone hurt his feelings and he thought the buying Twitter would in some way get back at them.