Elon Musk’s X social media platform is experiencing multiple outages. Downdetector.com says more than 28,000 users reported an outage at 11:28 a.m.
      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
        55·
        5 days ago

        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.caEnglish
          8·
          5 days 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.eeEnglish
          3·
          5 days 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)

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
    861·
    5 days ago

    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.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    27·
    5 days ago

    Imagine firing your entire IT team and then crying ‘cyberattack’ when the servers can’t handle traffic.

    🐱🐱🐱

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        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.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            Probably, but it wouldn’t be all that easy. It would require him to intimidate a bank or get a personal loan. He has the asset weath required, but, especially with the recent Tesla failure, he’d be hard pressed to get an honest loan from a bank for fear that he’ll run his finances into the ground.

            Cloudflare is worth 40B, he certainly doesn’t have anywhere near that much cash, his entire tesla holdings are around 100b and worth a lot less every day.

      • Mohamed@lemmy.ca
        1·
        5 days ago

        I wonder if, in his infinite costcutting wisdom, he removed “redundancies” in the twitter stack that wouldve helped it better withstand cyberattacks.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Twitter was never really good at that, but he did absolutely fire anyone that was responsible from preventing and recovering from failwhales

  • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
    16·
    5 days ago

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