• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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    The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later.

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    18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.

    The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge that there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/12/24219121/donald-trump-elon-musk-interview-x-twitter-crashes

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      claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”

      That’s such a stupid lie too. A much better one would be “so many people were trying to watch it and it crashed!”

      With all the bullshit these people spew on a daily basis you’d think they’d be better at it…

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        But he’s always gotta be a victim–ddos makes him one. Those trans gender hackers are trying to make him look bad or whatever.

        Too many people coming to watch reminds the alphas and lone wolves that there’s a lot of others alphas and lone wolves which kinda defeats the whole “there can only be 1” mentality a lot of them like to reserve for themselves. Ok so that’s a stretch but who tf knows with these people anymore

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          More like Elon’s narcissism won’t let him admit that his beloved company made a mistake.

          Then again, how hard would it be to DDOS a live stream? I would probably celebrate if it turns out the gay furry hackers came back for round 2.

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        In which case it was a distributed denial of service. But it wasn’t an intentional attack, we wanted to hear you dig your graves more, it was the result of your shitty software not able to hold any kind of load.

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      “massive DDOS attack”

      “by the Dems” of course. It’s not precise unless you’re creating an enemy. With followers adding on crazy shit like “must be the FBI and CIA”.

      Couldn’t be that Musk doesn’t know how to run Twitter. No. A conspiracy makes much more sense.

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      Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack”

      Me: Please be the gay furry hackers!

      Another X staffer said there was a “99 percent” chance Elon was lying about an attack

      So you’re saying there’s still a chance?