An "amateur hour" Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measures" to stop web scraping.

An “amateur hour” Javascript bug is self-DDOSing Twitter, sending infinite requests from users related to — or possibly even causing — Elon Musk’s “temporary emergency measures” to stop web scraping.

  • LostCause@kbin.social
    28·
    1 year ago

    It‘s pretty clear to me this guy knows nothing other than “how to throw money at intelligent people to make them make more money”, but with Twitter he somehow didn‘t do that. Instead he went the opposite way, to not pay bills and fire the intelligent people. I can only surmise, that this is an effort to destroy Twitter, maybe it was a thorn in some countries side?

      • LostCause@kbin.social
        17·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I feel you, it‘s like the “rich person at a carnival” parable:

        Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.
        Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.
        Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about “meritocracy” and the salutary effects of hard work.
        Poor kids aren’t visiting the carnival. They’re the ones working it.

        Maybe this is just a miss. I tend to see plans or conspiracy sometimes, when it could just be incompetence.

    • xuxebiko@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Last week a billionaire imploded the sub he was piloting because he thought he could outsmart the laws of physics.

      Never being told “no” makes a person stupid.

    • madcc@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      He thought that Twitter’s appeal to the best developers is the same as SpaceX’s and Tesla’s on their own tech areas, but to anyone else it’s pretty obvious that Twitter isn’t that special.