Posted on 12/11/2024 6:21:10 PM PST by Red Badger
The story behind Elon Musk firing 80% of Twitter's staff..
FUNNY AS HELL!.............
1:17 VIDEO AT LINK...................
(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...
Ping!..............
Any summary for those of us who don’t Xwitter?
Twin engine Plane comes in for emergency landing on busy Texas Highway.
Hits overpass and cars at stop light intersection.
Makes big mess.....................
Many thanks. Did see that elsewhere.
Sorry, I didn’t realize your answer was about a different thread of yours that had that info in the title. I was asking about THIS thread, The story behind Elon Musk firing 80% of Twitter’s staff. Wondering what the story behind it was.
OOPS wrong thread!.
Basically Elon told the engineers at Twitter there was no need for THREE server farms. They consume humongous amounts of power.
Engineers said there was.
Elon told them to disconnect the ones in Sacramento.
They said it would take six months.
Elon said you can do it in six weeks.
They said they couldn’t.
He said you can do it six days.
They said it was impossible.
Elon said you’re fired. Two days before Christmas.
Elon and his two cousins (who are engineers themselves) Fly home to Austin for Christmas.
On the way one cousin says to Elon, “Why don’t we disconnect the server ourselves?”
Elon orders the pilot to turn the plane around and fly to Sacremento.
They drive to the server farm and identify themselves to the security guard who is astounded.
They then attempt to get into the building that is locked and the guard doesn’t have a key.
He ask his private bodyguard if he has a pocket knife which he does and hands it to Elon.
Elon finds the data cables to the servers and cuts them and the server farm is disconnected...................
Twitter/X is running just fine with only 20% of it former staff............
What a GREAT story!
Oh, thank you for the details and for the thread. Enjoyed it so much.
Trump has a CEO mentality. A CEO can take charge like Musk did. Like Trump used to do as CEO.
But a President is not a CEO. There are checks and balances, and separation of powers. A President often requires Congressional support. And Courts can block a President.
Hopefully, Trump has learned to think like a President rather than a CEO for his second term.
You don’t have to join Twitter to view it, in case you don’t know.
It’s the permissions to see it I have trouble with. Husband has our computer world incredibly restricted and it’s a royal pain turning permissions on and off for X. I SHOULD remember and do it but I just forget when the site comes up dead to me. Thank you for the reminder. I’ll do it in future. I hope.
Whoa - Grrreat story.
This is how you Git S#it Done!
Would be funny if Trump did similar...walk into an agency (surprise them) and filter thru the papers on their desks, their computer history, etc.
Bkmk
It's funny, and it is obviously satire, or outright bullshirt. You can't stand at the entrance to a "server farm" and "cut the cables to the servers" with a pocket knife. It -is- a funny humor piece, but just think about this for a minute.....
First, direct access to the primary data cables from the outside would indicate zero physical security. Impossible that anyone would design a modern datacenter with no physical security.
Second, any cables that carry a third of Twitter's bandwidth are going to be optical and they'll be protected in conduit that I guarantee you cannot be cut by a human with a pocket knife.
Third, who is the fellow telling the story, and who is interviewing him? I didn't see any attribution.
Satire. Not quite Babylon Bee level, but funny.
🙂
I’ve heard this same account months ago. I don’t know if it’s true or even plausible. It sounds like the Sacramento server farm was for redundancy, so it would potentially handling all of the Twitter traffic. Even so a pocket knife could cut each fiber optic cable as it enters the server that is handling it’s traffic. His nephews would have to identify where the fiber bundles either enter the building and then trace them to a location where each is no longer protected by conduit.
I likewise don't know if it's true. But since it's extreme implausible, I doubt it's true. (BTW, I have a few decades of IT experience implementing, managing, and maintaining server farms (i.e. datacenters), smaller ones than Twitter's, which would be in the "very large" class, but the basic principles are the same.)
Most people who don't work in IT have no idea what a datacenter actually is, or if they have any idea, it's an idealized notion from movies. Okay, fine. Let's play along for a minute with the premise of this humorous clip...
It's extremely unlikely that Twitter's Sacramento datacenter was comprised of one or two supercomputers. More likely it was comprised of a few thousand physical rackmount servers, either bare metal or running hypervisors and multiple virtual machines per server. They were likely mounted in those long rows of racks you see in movies. The backs of those scores of racks, where the major optical fiber links split down into smaller fibers that run to the hundreds of routers and switches, look like a spaghetti nightmare to anyone who doesn't have a network map in hand.
From the hundreds of routers and switches, thousands of signal cables run to the individual rackmount servers. In addition there are power cables carrying AC power that you *DO NOT* want to cut into with a pocket knife. The image of Musk hacking away in the back of even one of these scores of racks is simply ludicrous.
So as you said, he would have attacked a higher level of the network, perhaps an entry point for the fiber bundles. But those are not sitting in open air like the fibers in the racks. They're extremely well protected because they're an obvious attack point for any competitor, vandal, cyber hacker, etc. They're typically buried underground and come up in secure areas deep inside the datacenter. (If they aren't well protected the designers of the datacenter should be taken out back and shot summarily.)
Hence my contention that this is just silly fun.
Hopefully not.
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