If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week saw a massive outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that managed to take many of your favorite websites and services offline. The outage also hampered the workflows of countless online businesses. The impact was fairly universal.
And, ever the opportunist, Musk was quick to leverage the outage to unfairly smear a potential competitor and promote his own, shittier alternative.
Amazon said the outage was caused by problems with an underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers used to distribute traffic across several servers. The outrage resulted in all the usual conversations about whether it’s a bad idea to have so much essential server operations under the control of one company, and how the internet isn’t as resilient as we like to think.
Musk, however, took the opportunity to exploit the outage to criticize Signal over at his right wing propaganda and crypto grifter website[.]
OMG of course it’s called “X Chat.” This guy has the creativity of a brick.
Also there’s multiple existing chat tools called some version of “X Chat.”
Amusingly the last Signal outage I remember was actually caused by Musk when he tweeted “use Signal” and so many people did that it took down their sign-up servers
Worth noting that Xitter is straight up lying about their service being E2EE
Why on Earth would Musk want E2EE? “Come use my service so I can steal your data” is, if not his primary MO, a nice side benefit.
Dude’s tryna sell a web service distributor and uses the outage to attack a CHAT APP? AND SELL HIS OWN?
man, you could find someone who’s been declared braindead and drive a railroad spike through that brain, and they’d STILL be smarter than this bozo
Damn, I had almost forgotten about that shit stain…
World’s richest man with an infamously glitchy centralized social network, who wants it to be a centralized payment processor, is saying what?
