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The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

www.theverge.com The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.

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So there are only two possibilities - either Vichy Twitter is such a poorly run site that it crashed on its own, or it's such a poorly run site that it's not prepared to deal with being DDOSed.

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- Its probably fairly straightforward:
  
  Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.
  
  Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.
  
  It probably isn't a DDOS. Its probably just... a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.
  
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  Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn't.
  
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  how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?
  
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  I remember a year back they just turned "off" their microservice architechture (Musk: "Why are we burning so much money in this microservice?"), or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.
  
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  Its probably just... a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.
  
  So a Group Hug of Death.
  
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  Xhitters full. Don't light a match or it will blow - it sucks though.
  
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  So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now
  
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- Twitter is such a poorly run site
  
  It's run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I'm assuming bad infrastructure
  
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- Time to bring back the fail whale
  
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  Make it a Starship exploding with dogecoins flying out of it.
  
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- Vichy Twitter
  
  I'm stealing this! It's way too good!
  
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  I stole it myself, so you're welcome to it.
  
  I have no idea who originated it, but from the first time I saw it, I haven't used anything else. It just so perfectly sums it up.
  
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Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. “As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” he said.

So not only is he fabricating the DDOS out of thin air, but he just assumes out of nowhere that it's politically motivated by the "opposition" to silence Trump - when Trump is vomiting nonsense that blankets the media 24/7 and this would do absolutely nothing to prevent Trump from exposing himself to the unwilling public. Galaxy brain genius logic right there.

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- He's just trying to avoid having to admit that X is an unreliable platform due to him firing all the people that kept it stable. That would mean having to admit his own decisions are not always perfect, and someone of his temperament can't admit that.
  
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- A live stream with tens of thousands of simultaneous viewers is, almost by definition, a scheduled DDOS. Even Apple struggled for years to get it right for their WWDC Keynote events back when they were live.
  
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- Most likely a dev did not want to get fired so he put the blame on a unknown bad actor instead and musk believed, lol
  
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  Or Musk has sycophants running IT who can't tell the difference.
  
  "So I've got this script that will make 20k simultaneous requests and average the response time to determine if we're being DDOSed. Someone's got it out for us because there's a short DDOS attack every single time I run the script! These guys are good, whoever they are! I'll trace some IPs... Oh shit. The DDOS is coming from inside the building! Better fire some more people. And don't worry, I'll be running my DDOS detector script a lot for the interview to make sure we don't get attacked!"
  
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- Dude if there’s one thing we’ve done it’s listen to far too much of the drivel that man has to say.
  
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Did Trump tell him how rude it was to start 42 minutes late due to technical issues, or is Musk a white man?

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- Trump didn't cause it, so he had no need to project.
  
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- A real missed opportunity to wait 3 more minutes at wait for his presidential number. Or wait 3 more years for him to be dead.
  
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- No. He did not.
  
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  Or maybe a little from column A and a little from column B
  
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- Damn, your girl's got moves!
  
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  But are those Indian moves or Black moves?
  
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Could it be because Xitter is made up of spaghetti code hosted on cheapest possible hardware?

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- Absolutely.
  
  Sidenote: I keep seeing "xitter" being used, is it safe to assume it's pronounced "shitter"?
  
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  You assume correctly
  
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  Xit that's funny!
  
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  Bingo!
  
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  Xi sounds like Shi in Mandarin.
  
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  I sometimes instead call it Twatter, especially as it's now full of bigoted twats.
  
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X is reeling this morning after its website crashed last night due to an orchestrated attack on its servers during its Elon / Trump interview. A spokesperson for X said that the attack seemed to have been orchestrated by a foreign state actor. “We are currently looking for a group of roughly 900,000 people who could have carried out such an attack to silence Trump.” The spokesperson said it was clearly a foreign nation. “X couldn’t possibly have failed due to too many concurrent listeners. According to our latest figures, there are only 10 actual people who aren't bots that still use X, 5 of which are confused and still think it's Twitter.” Tech experts said that they had never seen such a sophisticated and well organised attempt to flood the servers, using millions of different points of attack. The experts say the attack was highly organised. “In order to get millions of computers to participate at the same time, the perpetrators harnessed social media to encourage people to flood the servers, and overload the website. This was sophisticated stuff.” “They announced their attack day months ago, and then worked methodically to make sure everyone remembered the attack date.” “The perpetrators must have known that no computer server can withstand the load of an entire nation trying to access the same website at the same time on the same day.” —

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- I love it! Reads like an onion article lol
  
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  wait what.. this really is the official statement and not an onion article?!
  
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- I admit, you had me till the '900,000' people part
  
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- My favorite was the bit about the increased chocolate rations! 😄
  
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“Trump is slurring in a way I've never heard from him before,” remarked podcaster Susan Simpson. “Elon sounds like this is maybe the third or fourth time he's had a conversation with a fellow human.”

This is my favorite comment

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- Fantastic statement. Modern without trying to be edgy. A+
  
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- Nice 😂👌🏻
  
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- That's...a pretty good statement on it.
  
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- Do you have an original source on that? #IWantToBelieve
  
  Found it via TheHill - https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4825312-kamala-harris-donald-trump-elon-musk-x-interview-tech-issues/
  
  https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823194536983556377
  
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- “Kamala HQ retweeted” is chef’s kiss
  
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That's what happens when the first thing you do is fire all the Site Reliability Engineers... Apparently he stack-ranked engineers based on most lines of code (SREs generally write less code and even often delete code) and fired the lower end of that scale.

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- Elegant, efficient code? Who needs that shit?
  
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  It's always those that are well appreciated in the corporate bullshit hamster wheel.
  
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  I hear that an intern accidentally committed their node_modules folder, and now they're a staff engineer responsible for the live video streaming service. What a career trajectory! 🚀
  
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  No, those actually finish code.
  
  The ones who will write everything by hand.
  
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- While it's not LOC, you would be amazed at how many companies stack rank on stuff like number of PR's, how many revisions are needed to merge, size of changes, etc. I'm not talking about small companies either - FAANG companies, and not just one.
  
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Could it be that Lonnie is a lying liar? No, not the man who has promised "full self driving" for like a decade and still hasn't delivered it… He's not a lying liar, right?

Lonnie lies like a mother fucker. But not as much as the orange shithead.

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- Offtopic, but my son is also named Bort.
  
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  Is @son_named_bort@lemmy.world a son who is named bort? Or are they saying they have a son named Bort?
  
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By Twitter's standards, the "DDoS" is probably just a lot of people tuning in.

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The F(elon) Musk interview.

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- e-lone skum
  
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Seems like a regular thing happening on Xitter nowadays. Another day, another heavy load that doesn't flush, I guess.

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- Elon tries to crack a smile beneath another shovel load
  
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lol

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Why is this so familiar? Didn't he already try and fall to prop up another Republican ghoul the same way? I wonder what the last engineer not fired at Twitter is doing. They still haven't fixed Twitter's livestreaming.

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- I seem to remember a similar blunder as well, maybe it was DeSantis?
  
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Donald didn't want to do it live

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How is X still up? I am equally surprised many are still on the platform given all the bad performance and rate limitations.

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Why is this on c/Technology? Musk isn't twitter and twitter isn't tech news.

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- One if the largest social media platforms having tech issues isn't tech news?
  
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- Because technology 🅱️roke
  
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- Sadly, Musk IS Xitter atm :/
  
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- This is an article about a tech disaster. "Tech disaster" is literally in the title.
  
  Tech is an abbreviation for "technology."
  
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- Because gotta hate on Musk.
  
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Twitter had spent the first decade or so of its existence figuring out how to handle ridiculous spikes in traffic, building several of its own systems specifically to handle that problem. Seems like they had solved it in the years leading up to 2021. I wonder what happened...

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Nice that there is one candidate that does interviews.

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- Trump is so predictable, repetitive and so anti-intellectual, you could generate his responses with AI and they’ll actually be more coherent. It is not enough to do interviews, you have to be sane and informed.
  
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