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X Outage: Thousands Report Issues With Elon Musk's Platform
X outage: Thousands report issues with Elon Musk's platform:
Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, experienced massive outages throughout Monday morning that impacted thousands of users in the US and UK.
The outage came as platform monitor Downdetector said it had seen tens of thousands of reports from US users of technical issues affecting the platform.
There were more than 8,000 outage reports from UK users shortly before 14:00 GMT, following a brief but notable surge of reports on Monday morning.
Connection issues lasted for some users into the afternoon.
Many users trying to access the platform and refresh feeds on its app and desktop site during Monday's outages were met with a loading icon.
Musk claims the outages stemmed from a "massive cyber-attack" that originated "in the Ukraine area".
But the technology billionaire, who has been a frequent critic of Ukraine and its President Volodymyr Zelensky, offered no evidence to support the claim and did not say whether or not he thought state actors were involved.
Earlier, he posted on X that "either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved".
[...] "We're not sure exactly what happened but there was a massive cyber-attack to try and bring down the X system with [Internet Protocol] addresses originating in the Ukraine area," Musk said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.
Alp Toker, director of Netblocks, which monitors the connectivity of web services, said its own metrics suggested the outages could well be linked to a cyber-attack.
"What we've been seeing is consistent with what we've seen in past denial of service attacks, rather than a configuration or coding error in the platform," he told the BBC.
Elon Musk Claims X Being Targeted in 'Massive Cyberattack' as Service Goes Down
Elon Musk claims X being targeted in 'massive cyberattack' as service goes down:
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.
The social media platform X (FKA Twitter) went down three separate times with the longest outage lasting several hours starting around 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET.
No official words has come from X save for a single tweet from owner Elon Musk claiming that the outage was due to a 'massive cyberattack.'
More than 40,000 Downdetector reports poured in from users during the second outage — around 35,000 during the third outage — stating that they couldn't even get the X website to load, and it spiked hard again for a third one.
Elon Musk Says DOGE Involvement is Making It Harder to Run His Businesses
Elon Musk says DOGE involvement is making it harder to run his businesses:
In an interview with Fox's Larry Kudlow on Monday, billionaire Elon Musk admitted that his involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Donald Trump's initiative to reduce federal spending, is making it tougher to run his many businesses: X, Tesla, xAI, SpaceX, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and Starlink.
"How are you running your other businesses?" Kudlow asked at one point. "With great difficulty," Musk replied. "Frankly, I can't believe I'm here doing this."
Musk and DOGE, which has around 100 staffers — a number that Musk expects to climb to 200 — have been criticized for overpromising and underdelivering on spending cuts across U.S government agencies. Government contracting experts say that DOGE's online record of reductions contains inaccurate information and inflates claims of "savings" by including misleading math about contract cancellations.
DOGE has also put the U.S.'s data and computing infrastructure at risk through its work, according to cybersecurity analysts. DOGE staffers, some of whom have little experience working with government systems, have reportedly accessed agency data through insecure means and copied that data onto unprotected servers.
[...] While Musk complains that his work advising DOGE has stretched him thin, the billionaire has been accused of using the initiative to weaken regulations that oversee his business ventures.
When asked by Kudlow if he would extend his involvement in DOGE by "another year," Musk said, "Yeah." "We're just getting things done, as opposed to writing a report," Musk added. "Like, reports don't mean anything. You've got to actually take action."
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday March 11, @03:49PM (39 children)
It will only get worse. We will see the worst things happen as part of a pattern that has been repeated throughout human history.
It will become illegal to criticize the deer leader.
2028 voting will be "temporarily suspended" due to the emergency. (whatever that happens to be, false flag protests violence, etc) We will never vote again, or will never have a meaningful vote. It has happened before. To others. Who no doubt were equally shocked that this could happen.
This is all because a few people are afraid of an ever vastly fewer number of trans people or books in libraries.
There is an article on TechDirt: Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Harasses Google For Not Carrying Right Wing Religious Programming [techdirt.com]
And so it begins.
Thinking back to Babylon 5, I wonder if Trump will dissolve congress in the interest of making government more efficient, and flexible.
It really is the same old drama. As old as human history.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday March 11, @04:12PM (33 children)
Remind me please, what era was Babylon 5 in human history?
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @04:21PM (14 children)
The Third Age. 🤡
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @04:50PM (13 children)
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(Score: 3, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @08:24PM (12 children)
"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."
-- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, The Gathering
You should watch it: better story than Deep Space 9. Just realize, it doesn't look as good as it could have, but Paramount screwed Strazinsky(?) around bad and Warner Bros. didn't have teh skillz to do it justice.
It's worth watching just for Londo and G'Kar.... and Vir (RIP)!
("Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would prefer conscious, but I don't know what your .. pleasure threshold is."
Ambassador G'Kar to Lyta Alexander, The Gathering)
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 11, @09:24PM (11 children)
I've been rewatching it lately as well. Good stuff, and I'm not being as annoyed as I remember being last time when Sheridan starts angrily lecturing you about morality. Or did that start getting really bad midway through season 4? I don't think I actually finished the entire show since the plot is wrapped up in 4.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @09:44PM (10 children)
Season 5 wraps up 'everything'.
Psi-corps, (Emperor)Londo and (Bodyguard)G'Kar, Garibaldi fails (again), Lennier and Vir, Rangers (:/), Vorlon telepaths, the Drahk......
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @10:32PM (9 children)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @08:10PM (8 children)
The movies? Mostly. Some tie up a lot of loose ends.
Crusader? Mostly not.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday March 12, @08:59PM (6 children)
Yeah... I'm ashamed of myself for that and I hope I didn't seriously ruin the fun of these shows for anybody. But, hey, I hurt myself in the process by missing some great stuff. Now that I've partially extracted my head from my ass I can finally watch these shows and appreciate them for what they are!
Thanks for giving me the shoutout, I need to get B5 (and Farscape) (... and Sega) into my rotation.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @09:49PM (4 children)
This is the order suggested for viewing the show:
In the beginning (movie)
Season 1 --> Season 4E8
Third Space (m)
Rest of Season 4
Season 5 -->E21
River of Souls (m)
Legend of the Rangers (m)
Rest of Season 5
A Call to Arms (m)
All Crusade Episodes
**I would leave til the end** :
The Gathering (movie) Otherwise it goes after "In the beginning" movie (The Gathering is the pilot movie and can confuse things and has spoilers for the show)
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday March 12, @10:08PM (3 children)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday March 13, @11:20PM (2 children)
Farscape is another show that 'looks cheap and bad', but has some well written episodes, story wise. Even the shows that look like they'll be boring or like 'Oh, a flash-back show...GOD!' end up being "Oh, nice!"
Just get past the "Ugh-uh-ly" and enjoy.
I'm hoping they do B5 over again with big budget, as long as they do it well. I'd miss the original actors (Londo, G'Kar, Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova are just perfect... especially Londo coming off as a Dracula impersonator, lol. I LOVE imitating Londo: he has a specific Imperial and Transylvanian way of elucidating every. single. word.)
Have to love Zathras as well:
“Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs. Very sad life… Probably have very sad death. But, at least there is symmetry.”
“The One will die. The One will get better. Zathras is very good at guessing.”
“The One is the One. The Other One is also the One. The One is a Wholesome Number. The One Three is not so Wholesome, very unbalancing.”
And a VERY IMPORTANT ONE:
"Oh. Not the one, no."
"Not the one what?"
"Not the one. Won't talk. Can't talk. Not the one. They told me, they did. Zathras listens, he does, yes. Zathras listens and does what he's told."
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Tork on Friday March 14, @12:01AM (1 child)
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday March 14, @11:26PM
I JUST started, then got interrupted (probably by my son, lol).
I'll have to check it later.
Problem is, i don't want animated... i want 'real' (live action). A good 'reboot' will be appreciated.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @09:55PM
Oh, and Farscape is fun and also really good at times.
It is like B5: you have to get over the initial "Wow...that looks horrible" response to get to the good stuff.
The thing about B5 is that the show was pretty well all thought out ahead, and things that are coming in Season 3-4 are fore-shadowed in Episode 1 and Season 1.
You have to pay attention to really get what is going on.
And a hearty "Zooty, zoot zoot! to you!"
Londo: What reasonable explanation is there for the slaughter of unarmed civilians?
G'Kar: Curious. We wondered the same thing when you invaded our world. The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?
Londo: We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance.
G'Kar: What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?
Kosh: They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass.
Sinclair: The Narn or the Centauri?
Kosh: Yes.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday March 14, @03:31AM
Crusade was intended as a new show, a new story, with some connection to Babylon 5. But it was cancelled during its first season, resulting in the a lot of its owm loose ends. It was never intended for tying off loose ends in the previous show.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday March 11, @05:56PM (6 children)
Don't pretend to be stupid.
I wanted to invoke someone else's storytelling that now seems almost prophetic.
In the next sentence I wanted to point out that this has happened in human history, which you probably already are well aware of. (And why it was a story thread in B5)
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 11, @07:48PM (5 children)
Just oblivious
Failed on me. I mean, if I need to read Wikipedia to understand your message, I might give it a miss - which I did.
So I saw your Babylon and raised you the "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" from Picard's perspective.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @08:32PM (3 children)
I'll take B5 over Next Generation or the other "Deep Space Franchise" any day!
I see them at Tanagra and raise you Kosh:
("The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.")
("Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future.")
("And so it begins. You have forgotten something.")
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 11, @08:46PM
Self-coup and reference-not-found-at-destination will have to do for me nowadays - I know I have less time to live than I already lived through.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @10:56PM (1 child)
Vorlons, Shadows....mere infants playing n-dimensional tiddlywinks with the fates of younger races in the eyes of the ever elusive and enigmatic Furlings...
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday March 12, @08:20PM
...who could be defeated easily by MacGyver, with an elastic, a plastic straw (if you can still find one) and a spoon.
I call. ;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 12, @03:45PM
All I can say is . . . A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles.
The Centauri traded Earth jump gate technology in exchange for our superior hair mousse formulas.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 11, @07:04PM (10 children)
Like a lot of sci-fi plots, Babylon 5 bases many of its fictional plots on stuff that has happened many many times in human history. The kind of maneuvering GP is talking about is common enough it has a name: Self-coup [wikipedia.org] It's a lot like a normal coup, except instead of an outside force doing it to a leader who gained power legitimately according to some kind of democratic constitution, it's a legitimately-chosen-via-democracy leader doing it to the rest of the government to gain more power within that government, e.g. a president or prime minister attempts to declare martial law, and if enough of the military goes along with it they won't have to worry about elections or the legislature or courts stopping them from doing whatever they want.
Wikipedia lists about 30 historical examples, including the one involving a notorious Austrian-turned-German fellow in the early 20th century, which by all accounts was the instance that the Jewish writer of Babylon 5 was probably drawing from the most when he wrote it because he grew up around people who had lived through it.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 11, @07:49PM (2 children)
Not "probably." JMS [wikipedia.org] actually said he based a lot of that stuff on World War II. This was in (at least one) an episode commentary track by him. on the DVDs.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 11, @09:19PM (1 child)
The only reason I said "probably" is that he was also pretty explicitly drawing on stuff like what the Soviets were doing to what became the Warsaw Pact countries.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Tuesday March 11, @10:52PM
Yep. He talks more about Orwell as an influence rather than the USSR, but he discusses that too.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 1, Troll) by c0lo on Tuesday March 11, @07:57PM (4 children)
I'm well familiar with the self-coup meaning and totally oblivious on Babylon 5.
So... thanks?
I mean. that's a lot of info that you put there - and still not an incentive for me to make the effort of finding and watching Babylon 5.
Maybe others will find it useful, thus +Informative.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday March 11, @09:29PM (2 children)
Babylon 5 is uneven but well worth watching if you're the sort that like audiovisual entertainment. Definitely available on a bunch of streaming services as well as via piracy. 91 episodes, so a bit longer than Star Trek TOS, but you can also easily skip the last season and not miss too much. Significantly better than a lot of stuff out there.
A couple of representative scenes [youtube.com] involving a guest character who is a true believer in authoritarian nonsense.
If you'd rather read than watch, there's plenty of good writing and reviews about it out there as well.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 11, @10:01PM
My bucket list is overflowing otherwise I'd give it a try. Thank you again.
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(Score: 2) by quietus on Wednesday March 12, @04:44PM
Is that a young Marjorie Taylor Greene in there?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 12, @11:17PM
My take is that Babylon 5 is well thought out and has a great overall plot. They did a good job with characters, alien cultures, and history. And when they tie off a plot thread, it can be mighty tasty.
It has its limitations (such as almost everyone being humanoid and a tendency to draw plot analogues from real world history), or needing to watch a zillion episodes to get resolution on so many things. If you like your episodes nice and tidy, then the high level of continuity, foreshadowing, and so on between episodes will be a pain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @11:07PM (1 child)
JMS is an Atheist, of the lapsed Catholic variety...now, had you said 'creative consultant', then that's indeed a different bucket of Lox..
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday March 12, @01:44AM
You're right, I stand corrected. I know he's cited significant Jewish influence, and couldn't have written Ivonova correctly without it.
"Think of how stupid the average person is. Then realize half of 'em are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Score: 4, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday March 11, @04:14PM (2 children)
I'd liken this more to the Star Wars prequels. Remember the "Emergency Powers Act"... proposed by Jar Jar?
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by zocalo on Tuesday March 11, @04:50PM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 11, @08:40PM
HOW DARE YOU INVOKE THE NAME JAR-JAR!
Binks to you!
I hate you now and will tariff the hell out of you as revenge! I will show you no respect while i say you show ME no respect.
Meesa President of YOUSA! All hail Orange!
:)
The Night Watch is DIRECTLY a Nazi Organization.
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 11, @05:21PM
May as well, they have gone completely flaccid and nobody seems interested in changing it out for something more... upright
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday March 12, @07:05AM
And then eventually it'll come out that the massive cyber-attack was carried out by an African immigrant [medium.com].