Attacking Twitter then and now attacking Wikipedia. You can tell he want so hard to hide information and with starlink in his control it might happen.
Starlink has lost a lot of satellites. Makes me wonder if they can sustain it.
Sounds like they should lose a few more to be sure.
Well the Wikimedia foundation does indeed not need this amount of money for wikipedia.org alone, they have copious amounts of money and their “asking for donations” is in some countries straight up “Wikipedia will shut down if you don’t pay” and seeing that as questionable behavior is absolutely ok.
However… WE WITNESSED A MURDER.
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Wikipedia is great, and they do have real operating costs, but hosting all the data is about 2% of their budget. All the admins and editors and contributors are volunteers. Most of the money is spent on projects not related to the encyclopedia and donations to miscellaneous social groups.
Their accounting is public: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
Some of their staff are paid pretty high salaries ($300-400k), but its still nothing like what most business executives get paid and not much of their total costs. And while they have a lot of money right now, that could quickly change if people stop donating. Its best to be on the safe side with such a valuable resource.
On the other hand, I see the Internet Archive as just as valuable or more, and I think it deserves a lot more money and attention than it has been getting. Of course it doesn’t have to be one or the other, I just think that Wikipedia gets a disproportionate amount of donations compared to the Internet Archive.
https://youtu.be/d9UgRIPWP4w?si=gm8v6wCvQ7vLzo34
Video is in German but it has subtitles, its a in depth analysis of it.
Internet Archiv is absolutely great and nowadays probably worth more than Wikipedia when it comes to information. I wouldn’t want to be in a world without a Wikipedia, but what Wikimedia does is sketchy often.
Can he fuck off and stop mentioning Wikipedia
Think he is pissed off by it somehow. Probably because it tells the truth. My guess is he is sitting in his lair plotting how to destroy it.
I’m guessing he read the Wikipedia page on him and didn’t like what he saw.
I’m guessing he tried to edit his own wiki entry and it got reverted immediately.
For someone claiming how much value each minute of his work has, it’s funny how much time and effort he spends on bullshit.
Maybe his minutes of work are valuable because they’re rare.
It certainly isn’t needed to operate Wikipedia. The entire archive can fit on your phone.
This is the same guy who didn’t understand why you couldn’t just unplug servers and load them up in a truck like you’re moving into a college dorm.
I just don’t understand. This is supposed to be a tech genius who has experience with coding, computer hardware, business management, accounting and physics. How the fuck does he not understand basic logistics?
He doesnt have any of those qualifications, hes a con artist, and not a very good one.
He’s the richest man on Earth, for a con man that qualifies as decent at least.
If the only requirement to making stupid levels of money was being good at something, there would be a lot more millionaires i ln the world, and elon would be dirt poor.
It’s no feat for a rich guy to make money, cons or not. At a certain level of wealth society is designed so you essentially can’t lose money (unless you directly transfer all of your assets to a Bernie Madoff type or something similar).
A real con man has to have some level of skill, but Elon never had to learn to do anything competently in his entire existence.
Here’s the de-ampified version of that link:
www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
The key words there are supposed to be
I sincerely hope that in the future when peole look up the archaic expression of ‘Dumb Fuck’ they find a beautiful portrait of man baby Elon.
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.
So, how long before the “Readers added additonal context” feature mysteriously vanishes?
Kinda surprised it’s still there, honestly.
I could’ve sworn it had already been disappeared. I guess I’m misremembering.
The moderation for it has disappeared. So often it’s just right wing bs these days
Ah, right. That’s what it was. I guess I figured the feature went with the team he fired. Of course he just left it running unmonitored.
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
Oh yeah good point, forgot about all of that.
musk is dumb as a brick
This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.
Capitalized
is… …is that a pun?
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.
No no, the pun is supposed to be the first letter of the word capitalised being capitalised.
Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.
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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.
A colleague of mine is one of the stupidest people I’ve ever met, but also among the most arrogant, so I say he’s like a pigeon.
Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?
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?”
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)
We tended to have very expensive engineers and very cheap designers. That was emblematic of where customers placed their value and, thus, where management placed their priority in hiring.
That said, of the four designers… one went to NASA, one went to Amazon, one went to McDonald’s (leading global service design research) and then to Lyft.
They were very talented folks
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.
I think you’re vastly underestimating the amount of research and work that goes into making Google products so easy to use.
UI isn’t just a front end development mashing their keyboard with HTML, CSS and JS. It’s hours and hours of observation, research, prototyping, pattern identification, prioritization of information, experimentation and then you create a simple white screen with one input box that does a million things.
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.
He is literally that guy
Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!
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
But you would need a new foundation, or those copies will stop being collaboratively updated. In addition, it would be difficult for people to access the information again, without a new website.
It’s a legitimate question that they don’t usually actually care about the answer to.
Musk was never meant to move beyond middle-management at a bottom tier MLM company.
All you need to succeed in life is a great ego and some sticktoitness.
(Some of that apartheid emerald money doesn’t hurt either.)
Tbh his starting money wasn’t huge. He took a couple of millions and through sheer power of ego and narcissism turned them into hundreds of billions. Takes some talent to pull it off. He’s hugely harmful to the rest of society but really good at what he does, at least before Twitter.
I disagree - the thing that got him his initial fortune was PayPal, and frankly that was mostly luck and good timing.
Everything we’ve heard from actual employees at the places hes owned paints a very clear picture that they succeed in spite of him, not because of him.
The two things he’s good at are
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Identifying potentially successful companies early on, so he can get in early and pretend he invented it - which is admitedly a valuable talent, but only in a zero-value capitalist sort of way
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Marketing himself - though it’s increasingly clear that this talent was short lived, and most have seen behind the curtain at this point. The people who like him today mostly just like him because he’s saying the shit they want to hear, even the conservatives I know no longer think he’s some tech genius
Everything else has just been luck and timing. If I go out and buy a lottery ticket tomorrow and will a billion dollars, I’m not good at buying lottery tickets
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His primary genius has been in marketing himself, for a little while long ago I actually thought he might be one of the fabled ‘good billionaires’. But I think it’s hard to live as a fake self for years, he’s probably much more self-satisfied and validated now, showing his true self as a massive asshole.
It’s kinda funny to me when people paint others as people who have always hated Musk and wanted him to fail. Nah, I used to think he was cool. Then he called a dude a pedophile for checks notes trying to save some children and the mask was shattered. He’s not done a single thing since to redeem his image since then.
It’s really surprising that Musk has not eliminated the “Readers added context” feature. Yet.
It’s been used by a lot of his bootlickers to his advantage. But I’m sure it will be on the chopping block if people start using it against him.
They have been, on virtually every one of his messages. Or so I’m told.
Not that I’ve seen.
An annoying thing about authoritarians and right-wingers is that the context doesn’t matter. People trying to have a rational discussion care, but reactionaries trolling on twitter are trying to inflict damage.
It’s not that it doesn’t matter, it’s that by the time people add context, the people that need that context already saw the tweet and move on with their life thinking that musk “owned” Wikipedia.
Its only us fuckers that don’t follow him that get these tweets with context included.
The issue with the context is that people don’t really search for old tweets, they either see it live or, sadly, read a screen capture of the tweet. If that capture was taken pre context, it doesn’t matter what users say, the twee lt will be spread as-is.
That’s a good point about the ‘liveness’ of the tweet I didn’t think about. I’m not on twitter so most tweets I see are screencaps, taken at the time of posting usually probably, for all I know tweets I see could be fake altogether hah. This feature is great for their business in more ways then, it makes it look like they care about the truthfulness of what is spread on the site, but still allows for uninformed propagandizing.
It will be next on the chopping block after this.
Or you’ll have to pay to add context.
What a painfully stupid man.
He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.
So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]
He’ll just be screeching “Dr Fauci” in a bird voice next. I hear that’s what passes for comedy on the right.
He is a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine. Can you tell if the following quote is by him or I made it up?
“I’ll give them a million dollars if they change their name to ‘Dickipedia’.”
I think that not being able to be funny is one of the eternal thorns in musk’s side that his billions of blood money can never buy him. His stupid twitter quips, dumb sight gags like walking into the office holding a sink… he knows he’ll never be able to become funny and it eats at him.
Also since he can’t keep his giant dumb yap shut people who had a good image of him 10 years ago as a guy trying to help the earth now know that he’s a huge piece of garbage. Money can’t buy his legacy, no matter how many fanboys impotently scream on forums.
