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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Gigameister@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was coming on this thread to say "Anonymous better claim this and come out of stasis..."

Your comment made my day!

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Did they tho? I don't see anything on the site that claims this attack

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago

"they will be removed"

🐸

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The attack started when Musk acquired Twitter and laid off everyone who wasn't an asshole.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of the people who stayrd are h1b slaves who cant leave

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I understand that it can be immensely scary to leave a job and if the acquisition happened a week ago I'd be more forgiving but... they've had enough time, H1Bs have exit clauses that, especially someone fleeing Twitter for ethical reasons, could have used to find an alternative sponsor.

I do fucking hate H1B exploitation, but folks have had long enough at this point that the excuses runneth dry.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I was on an H1 programme, but not for a green card. Just until the TNs were fixed.

But these exit clauses? Never heard of 'em. We lived in abject fear of fucking up to the point of being fired, as that meant a moving truck super-fast. We were glad we had a company that paid us at par and also kept us on when it had to downsize for daring to sue IBM.

I shudder at the people trapped at Twitter and what they must see daily.

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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 94 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the people involved in that cyberattack are wearing thigh high socks and cat ear headphones, and they’re much cooler than Musk would ever be.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is "priaprism"?

I'll take "PP WORDS" for 600, Alex.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Having a janky wang doesn’t make Musk uncool in and of itself, lots of janky wang-havers are cool.

His insecurity about it, publicly, deprives him of any coolosity he ever could have had.

He is a man without potential or love.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago

The joke started out in my head as "stop, I can only get so hard!" And then I classed it up with medical terminology.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

priaprism

I had to look this up, and wow, the image on the Wikipedia article for priaprism is... well, it's something.

Fresco of Priapus, Casa dei Vettii, Pompeii. Depicted weighing his enormous erect penis against a bag of gold.

[–] mister_flibble@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

One hour too late. Smh

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the same picture they used for the article on Biggus Dickus?

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

He in general underperforms in the coolness department. I have no interest in his man-noodle.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

elons botched surgery prevents him from getting an erection.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Good thing the US is lowering its cybersecurity forces. 🤦

[–] waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 year ago
[–] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 year ago
[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine firing your entire IT team and then crying 'cyberattack' when the servers can't handle traffic.

🐱🐱🐱

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, they’re being DDOSed right now. But yeah, he fired anyone who would know how to mitigate a DDOS attack.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He can literally go and hire cloudflare to come in and help him fix it.

But I'm sure he needs someone experienced enough to manage that project.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Musk right now...

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

twitter still has 28,000 users? and they're active enough to report the outage?

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 21 points 1 year ago

Where do i sign up and help fight the Musk troll..

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Big oh no anyway vibes.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago

Twitter as run by Musk— There has never been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t trump shut down cybercrime investigations?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the more reason for russia to try a cyberattack?

[–] civil_drive@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

It would be best if it does not come back up.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago

I hope that there are more to come;-))

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Must be the great hacker collective: N_competence

Edit: ~~Well, butter my buns and call me a biscuit. It seems like he might not’ve been lying on this one account.~~ Never mind. Looks like he is lying again.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's blaming it on Ukraine which sounds like a false flag. He'll use this as the reason he has to cut off Starlink to the country.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Tragic. Just tragic.

Oh no... anyway...

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao good thing your boys got their hands on sensitive shit, huh?

Fucking amateur hour.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is anyone even still using that product?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

It's a propaganda engine for propaganda consumers.

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I never noticed until this picture how much X looks like two swords crossed. Hmmm.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh goody, Anon must be back.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

Don't care why it's down, but that's good news.

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