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[–] [email protected] 251 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You can literally fit the entire text on your phone

But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can't serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he's determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was about to say "at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this" but anyone still a fan of him think he's playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The problem is that the people he says this kind of stuff for don't understand anything, so they just believe everything he says. If someone tries to educate them they literally can't process the information.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Nah he's just trolling lol he totally got you. He made you think he was an idiot lol, a total moron lmao"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There are still people who think he's a genius

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives

The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.

Not stupid, just misleading stupid people. As the owner of one of the most popular websites on the internet, and the guy who killed third party APIs, there's no way he doesn't know what it costs to process millions of queries/day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This implies he has learned lessons from his past mistakes - he has not. The odds are better on Must thinking the people who executed his perfect demands did those things wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. It didn't come across as stupidity (not saying Musk isn't stupid), but as someone blatantly borrowing from the Trump playbook.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Plex and IPFS has it's place, but I still support Wikipedia as a non profit, just like you don't need to pay to enter a library, unless your in some kind of elite library of the bleeding edge lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give it another year and I bet 6 to 1/2 dozen on the value of USB drives and Twitter.