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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 111 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] Gigameister@lemmy.world 50 points 5 months 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 5 months ago

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

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 months ago

"they will be removed"

🐸

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 96 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months 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 8 points 5 months 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

they made sure that if your fired you will be deported, or if you stop getting sponsored or something. biotech also exploits visas too, but not too the extent of tech employers, making an already very hard industry to get into harder.(why do you think alot of scientists tend to be from the ME, INDIA or asia)

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 91 points 5 months 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 5 months ago (2 children)

What is "priaprism"?

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

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (2 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.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months 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 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

One hour too late. Smh

[–] LimpRimble@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 6 points 5 months 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.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

elons botched surgery prevents him from getting an erection.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 45 points 5 months ago

Good thing the US is lowering its cybersecurity forces. 🤦

[–] waterbird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 5 months ago
[–] MyMotherIsAHamster@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 months ago
[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 28 points 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] arotrios@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Musk right now...

[–] TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

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

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 21 points 5 months ago

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

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

Big oh no anyway vibes.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t trump shut down cybercrime investigations?

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

All the more reason for russia to try a cyberattack?

[–] civil_drive@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

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

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 10 points 5 months ago

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

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Tragic. Just tragic.

[–] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 9 points 5 months 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 5 months 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.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Oh no... anyway...

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

Why is anyone even still using that product?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

It's a propaganda engine for propaganda consumers.

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

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

Fucking amateur hour.

[–] Cephiroth@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Oh goody, Anon must be back.

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

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

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
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