• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    107·
    2 months ago

    It’s just another case of Musk trying to sound smart but instead ends up proving that he doesn’t even have a basic working understanding on the subject.

    I guess this time the only difference is that it doesn’t look like he paid an actually competent person to help him with it.

    • bambooEnglish
      63·
      2 months ago

      This might be giving him too much credit, but I think what he’s trying to say is that he had the woke_mind_virus and deleted it from his mind? They’ve all co-opted the term red pill from the Matrix (widely seen as a trans allegory) and are using it to justify their unpopular actions because they’re now free of having to be “woke” and can oppress those who are marginalized.

      Obligatory Fuck Elon:

      Fuck Elon

  • lost_tortie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    96·
    2 months ago

    Please do notice that he replied to himself a month after the fact. He was cooking that up for an entire month 😹

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      2 months ago

      Without even realizing that rm -rf works on posix filesystems which are not directly exposed at osi layer 3.

      This is the brilliant scientific mind that wants to take humanity to mars. 🙄

      • Molten_Moron@lemmings.world
        15·
        2 months ago

        No, this is the rich, entitled asshole who wants to severely underpay brilliant scientific minds to take humanity to Mars.

      • takeheart@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 months ago

        Waddaya mean we can’t just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It’s not fair! 😡

    • Mîm@lemmy.zip
      28·
      2 months ago

      And still couldn’t figure out how it works.
      What a pathetic loser 😹

  • RedSeries (She/Her)English
    77·
    2 months ago

    This is a freshman CS/IT major’s attempt at humor. Most of us learn and grow out of it and/or get the memes right, but Elon isn’t smart and isn’t actually capable of understanding how stupid this looks

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      51·
      2 months ago

      No IT major would fuck the syntax like that, this is a script kiddie hooting through a mouthful of cheetos

        • anton
          3·
          2 months ago

          Going of memories:

          Didn’t he write a codebase that was so bad, that paypal throw it out when they realized what they had bought.
          Also did he finish his physics bachelor?

          • MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Yes he did write bad code. I don’t believe the degree was even offered at that time as economics and physics are different departments

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    52·
    2 months ago

    I was a huge SpaceX fan from the early days so watched a lot of Musks presentations and interviews and noticed a lot of repetition and always felt he was strongly working from talking points combined with a reasonably good high level understanding of the topic.

    He didn’t work as well off script and seemed to have stunted emotional development, not unlike a lot of internet age manboys raised on memes, video games and porn. It is difficult to reconcile his behaviour with an adult, father and manager of people and money. I suspect he has some seriously competent peiple around him like Shotwell who cover for his fuck ups.

    IMO he probably is the kind of guy who can soak up stuff around him, turn it into a set of talking points and repeat it with the appearance of expertise. I think he may have had some cognitive decline due to age and lifestyle but I think he was a pretty competent bullshit artist in the past.

    I am not an expert at anything but like many IT people discovered long ago that I can pick up most things in my general field with a bit of research. It is a dangerous mindset sometimes. There really is the feeling that with some basic undergrad math and comp sci and a weekend of googling you can understand quantum field theory and it’s totally delusional of course.

    Unfortunately the fake it to you make it culture seems to have won. It doesn’t matter how crap you are, if you put yourself out there with confidence you will outcompete the quiet competent types. And when you get caught out there never seem to be consequences.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      24·
      2 months ago

      you put yourself out there with confidence and your parents blood money from emerald mines you will outcompete the quiet competent types.

      But yeah. Point taken.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      6·
      2 months ago

      Each of his companies has to have a layer of management that’s simply about directing his attention somewhere that won’t hurt the company. SpaceX seems to do this best, Tesla is OK to bad, and Xhitter is by far the worst.

    • andioop@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      New fear unlocked: I fit this description and just don’t realize it. Kind of along the lines of imposter syndrome. Am I just bullshitting everyone around me into thinking I’m competent?

  • katy ✨
    37·
    2 months ago

    did he just attempt to fix a virus on his system by only deleting the containing folder and being like well that’s that

  • frunch@lemmy.world
    25·
    2 months ago

    He can fake gaming kinda-sorta, he can fake admirers kinda-sorta… Why could he kinda-sorta fake programming skills?

    He’s the ultimate fake

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      The thing is that this kind of thing works for people who don’t know better. I have spoken to dudes who like the abstract notion of Musk being a gamer, probably because it wasn’t apparent to them that his Path of Exile account was so obviously boosted. Similarly, a script-kiddie can seem like a skilled programmer to people who have little knowledge of programming

  • Entropywins@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    Woke mind found at loopback interface

    Wokemind deleted

    Now let’s traceroute a fucking loopback of something you deleted…

    It’s not funny, it’s not smart but it definitely is Elon.

  • pfm@scribe.disroot.org
    21·
    2 months ago

    To me, the whole thing with “woke” being used as a derogatory term is the same as conservatist folk calling XR, Last Generation and other activists “eco-terrorists”.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I’ve watched/played/read things I wouldn’t have discovered if there hadn’t been masses of people crying “woke” about them; there was a period where it was a really useful recommendation engine, because they’d be especially pissy if high quality stuff was woke. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work as well anymore, because “woke” is increasingly meaningless

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
    20·
    2 months ago

    🤔, I must not have the mind virus then as 127.0.0.1 does not loopback on my machines. Victory? Also I’d just like to point out that while hostnames can contain _ they’re not supposed to as it’s reserved for special purposes like SRV records.