toot by @MissingThePt@mastodon.social
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
thats a dog whistle.
Wikipedia is a tool of the “Globalists” (we know who those are) to brainwash poor conservatives.
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.
Obviously he has an axe to grind with facts being easily available to regular people. He’s trying to leverage his voice as a hated billionaire to signal maga conspiracy theories.
Also, what phone does he have with multiple terabytes of storage if he’s downloading it on his phone…?
He’s right that you can actually fit the entire text of wikipedia on your phone. Wikipedia let’s you download a copy and it’s not that huge.
But obviously Wikipedia has a huge image and audio library and those make up the majority of storage space.
If you don’t download the history, and only download one language, sure, but that’s not Wikipedia