Posted on 10/28/2022 8:38:16 AM PDT by nwrep
Key points:
1. Musk has ordered a freeze on changes to Twitter code as of noon Thursday, October 27, per Twitter employees. No code checkins are allowed.
2. On Thursday, October 27, Twitter product leaders showed Tesla software engineers (brought in by Musk) the company code. These Tesla engineers are reviewing the code in preparation for a confidential briefing for Musk early next week.
3. Twitter software engineers are locked out of the code, other than a few exceptions personally approved by Musk.
(Excerpt) Read more at teamblind.com ...
lol, my guess is that they’re probably a bit past BASIC and FORTRAN there!
I would imagine that Musk will publish a report detailing any skulduggery they find inside the Twitter code. That report can then be used as evidence in a number of contemplated and ongoing lawsuits.
The reality is, internal combustion engine vehicles are much more likely to catch on fire than electric vehicles. Since Tesla is such a popular and controversial automaker, its vehicles catching on fire provide much more shock value than other automakers. How many times have we overlooked airbag recalls that could have led to fatalities by major automakers?
From 2012 to the year 2020, there was close to one vehicle fire for every 19,000,000 miles traveled. From 2012 to the year 2020, there was one Tesla vehicle fire for every 205,000,000 miles traveled. Not only are Tesla battery fires a rare occurrence, but Teslas are actually safer than gas-powered vehicles when it comes to catching fire.
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-fires/
As a software engineer myself, I wouldn’t call it unlucky - I can’t imagine a more fun assignment! Wouldn’t you want to?
It was a joke.
I wish I could afford a Tesla. Lol.
I would love the assignment.
I recommend that Musk has the entire place scanned for Bugs. He is looking for the most advanced bugs ever made.
I doubt that the censorship engines will be all that hard to find - what will be interesting is who was using them and how they were employed on a daily basis. That's going to take a little more digging. There will be logs...there are always logs...
Exactly! I bet there’s a dozen bombshells to be found. How many bots? How is the AI trained? What does the full blacklist show? .....to be the first to see and expose it...drool.
Change the passwords from password ? LOL
Not sure what you mean by “look at the models”. You can see how they were trained. You could also look at their test procedures and results for the models. This is the fun part of AI models, give the model a novel condition and you have a probability of how it will behave. Hacking takes on a new and scarry meaning in an AI world.
Musk has stated his desire to create “X - The Everything App,” a super-app, and acquiring Twitter is the beginning.
What Elon Musk has said publicly — and in private texts — about X, his idea for an 'everything app'
If Elon Musk's deal to buy Twitter closes, the billionaire will have taken the first step toward something he calls "X," his vision for a new kind of social media platform that most in the US haven't experienced before.
An "everything app," as Musk puts it. The Tesla CEO has said the acquisition will act as "an accelerant" to creating X — jump-starting the process by three to five years.
X wouldn't be the first app trying to do a bit of everything. In fact, Musk indicated in May might look for inspiration from Tencent's WeChat, a Chinese social media juggernaut that's one of the largest super-apps in the world.
WeChat acts as an all-encompassing service — from messaging and video chatting to video games, photo sharing, ride services, food delivery, banking, and shopping.
"If you're in China, you kind of live on WeChat," he said. "It does everything — sort of like Twitter, plus PayPal, plus a whole bunch of things, and all rolled into one, with a great interface. It's really an excellent app, and we don't have anything like that outside of China."
At his first town hall with Twitter staff, the billionaire said there's a "real opportunity" to create a similar app outside of China.
Neat! Or not...
Here’s a different view (Joachim Bartoll / bartoll.se - not a link):
If you’re not familiar with China and WeChat, let me fill you in on what it actually is. It started as a simple and “innocent” substitute for Facebook’s Messenger, a way to communicate by text messages, emoticons, animated crap and videos. However, the real purpose was something completely different, and they slowly and carefully added new small functions, tidbits, and requirements for WeChat, all disguised as something convenient and fun to use. By doing so, people were slowly conditioned and never saw the whole picture, that they actually were building a huge 24/7 surveillance grid for tracking and monitoring everything you do, with Digital ID and face recognition to single you out, a social credit score system to keep you in line, and also a payment gateway so you must comply or you can’t buy anything (the Mark of the Beast.) Add all of these ‘small functions’ together and you have a totalitarian beast system, a digital prison for total government control.
This app, WeChat, is simply a government monitoring and control tool. It keep track of what you do, what you write and say (your opinions and values,) how much energy you use, what you buy and what you eat, where you go, what people you know and who you meet, what you spend your money on, your financial status (if you’re in debt or not,) and so on, and so forth. The app is also the leading cashless payment system in China, and it’s actually required to be able to pay in most stores and to pay most of your bills. It is integrated with a Digital ID and required for public transport (bus/train/subway) or even to get entry to some public areas or civic buildings like a library, arena, baths, or museum. It has its own censorship algorithm monitoring you 24/7, giving you automatic fines if you misbehave and it actually state that if you speak out against the government you will be arrested. That also means that you can only write and talk about what is accepted, or it will get censored in real time and you might get fined, which will be deducted from your digital wallet or from your Social Credit Score.
Actually, WeChat has, as of 2019, a ‘deadbeat map’ which allows users to search within a 500-meter radius for people who have failed to pay their bills, for people who are in debt and thus deemed ‘untrustworthy,’ so you can stay clear of them when doing business or trade. Their homes are labeled as ‘swindlers’ or ‘fraudsters’ in bright red on the map.
This beast system can be also used to warn police and military of people gathering, creating ‘hot spots,’ as in predicting protests and riots – especially if people with similar opinions or views get together in close vicinity of each other. Or to warn you during fake pandemics to keep your distance or get fined. As you can imagine, the possibilities for government and control are endless. This is only scratching the surface. Does this sound like something you want, something you want for your children?
Well, this is what Agenda 2030 is all about – and your government most likely has already signed up for it. This is what the top of the power pyramid wants for the West and the whole World. And they use their puppet Elon Musk as a figurehead for this technology, for this total digital enslavement, to condition people and make them accept it.
Software engineers do not design batteries.
Musk for president 2024. But that can’t happen. He was not born in USA. But he is the smartest person in USA.
That is probably not true.
I can trust Musk more than POTUS Biden, VPOTUS Kamala, Speaker Pelosi, senate majortiy leader Schumer, and every democtrat politician.
I can trust Musk more than POTUS Biden, VPOTUS Kamala, Speaker Pelosi, senate majortiy leader Schumer, and every democtrat politician.
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