• Cosmo@lemmy.world
      1011·
      4 months ago
      29.2 tweets a day?

      At a rate of 10,658 tweets a year, I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        41·
        4 months ago

        Tesla board member and close Musk confidant Antonio Gracias once took Musk’s phone away to prevent him from tweeting late into the night, Isaacson said during a Twitter Spaces event on Wednesday.

        “At one point when Elon was firing off tweets without filtering them in the least, they were on a trip and Antonio took his iPhone — Elon’s iPhone — and locked it in the hotel safe with Antonio punching in the code so that Elon couldn’t get up at 3 a.m. and start tweeting again,” Isaacson said, describing Gracias as “one of Elon’s closest friends.”

        Musk later got hotel security to open the safe at around 3 a.m. so he could start tweeting again, Isaacson said.

        The biographer added that Musk is “almost addicted to the drama that comes with Twitter” and sees owning Twitter as a way he can be “king of the playground.”

        “It’s something he loves — loves almost to the point of compulsion,” Isaacson said, adding that some of his friends, including his brother Kimbal Musk, attempted to convince him not to buy Twitter.

        https://www.yahoo.com/news/tesla-board-member-once-locked-172209587.html

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    2084·
    4 months ago

    Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin’ dare ya.

    Edit: we want Falcon 9’s landing guidance software too.

    • evidences@lemmy.world
      743·
      4 months ago

      Open sourcing the falcon 9 software would almost definitely be a violation of ITAR… On second thought it would be fun to see him go to prison.

    • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
      19·
      4 months ago

      I want a world where anyone can go to space. It the thing I wanna do the most. But I’m not rich and I’m no super smart and I have awful health.

      • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
        3·
        4 months ago

        We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.

        Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing…there was a British one I can’t remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.

        Edit: here is is and I was mistaken it’s not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

        • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
          8·
          4 months ago

          Space planes carry along heavy-as-fuck wings, control surfaces and a lot of other bullshit that’s only useful inside the atmosphere, and which massively increase fuel consumption for every single maneuver while your space plane is actually where you want it to do stuff - in space. And the only benefit is that the atmosphere helps lift and fuel your vehicle to about 10% of orbital velocity. The other 90% it will have to accelerate just like any other rocket.

          The SpaceX approach is much better: Land and reuse all parts of your rocket, but don’t carry them with you further than where they’re useful. Rockets leave the atmosphere where wings would work within a few minutes anyway.

          • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
            21·
            4 months ago

            Yeah but…most people’s grandparents aren’t going to be riding rockets. This isn’t sustainable for widespread access to space.

    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      21·
      4 months ago

      Do you really want countries like North Korea, Iran and China having access to software that would certainly be used for missile guidance?

      • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Why not. If everyone has it, everyone will be afraid to use it, because they know everyone else has it, but what they don’t know is how many have developed a working prototype.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1012·
    4 months ago

    The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
          262·
          4 months ago

          Let me put it to you this way.

          Elon Musk fanboys, now running arch.

          Just… Let that simmer for a minute.

              • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
                13·
                4 months ago

                But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you’re smarter than you think.

              • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                1·
                4 months ago

                Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.

            • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
              4·
              4 months ago

              Maybe nowadays, with Elon’s imbecility so publicly visible.

              I’ve run Arch for close to 10 years, and was pretty jazzed by Musk in the early days of his presiding over Tesla and Space X. Then again, I was barely an adult at the time, and I hadn’t yet come across the first reports of terrible working conditions and his overall shittyness as a manager/exec.

              • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
                6·
                4 months ago

                A lot of people forget how overwhelmingly, insanely popular Musk was with way too online nerds. He was reddit’s golden child for years. Part of this is that whenever Disney started releasing the Marvel movies, beginning with Iron Man, Musk was front and center as the core inspiration for Tony Stark (yes, I’m serious, the director and Robert Downey Jr. basically went on record as saying as much) and he fucking milked that shit. It’s also important to understand that for a time he was seen as a forward looking entrepreneur whose business was “going to help save the planet by making electric cars so popular that every car manufacturer would switch to electric vehicle production to keep up.” If Musk was a genius at one thing, it was manipulating public perception of himself and his enterprises. It took years of him being a thin-skinned weirdo and massive corporate tool to undo the amount of positive sentiment he’d built for himself and Tesla.

            • olutukko@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 months ago

              you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.

              to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.

    • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      You say that, but I’ll be more than willing to try and sell him a copy of the source code.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    924·
    4 months ago

    Welp, off to macOS now. Sorry guys I can’t be a part of this community anymore.

    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      Realistically, he would call it ElonOS, hire a bunch of shitty systems programmers to cobble together a bullshit operating system mostly comprised of code stolen from other open source projects, insist that it be written in python because “python is critical to AI,” talk about how the OS integrates with AI seamlessly while having no actual AI in it at all, sell it with a tiered subscription that locked basic functionality, like being able to use the file system, behind a paywall, and then quickly abandon the project and fire everyone involved, having made no real money from the venture but still referring to it as a “triumph of engineering.”

      • LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        As the CEO of Linux, I’ve had long and intense discussions with Mr Musk about the future of the company if he were to buy it, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a very good and smart businessman. There is no doubt in my mind that our company will thrive under his competent leadership. The Linux Corporation™ is therefore proud to announce that we have decided to accept his gracious offer of 69 billion US dollars, payable in $100 Google Play gift cards.

        • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 months ago

          You forgot to tell them that our head office is…

          300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

          …and all the play cards should be sent there!

        • Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
          8·
          4 months ago

          I really appreciate Linus trying to tone down the nastiness in his replies over the years, but I’d be willing to let almost anything slide if it means getting a proper, old-school Torvalds tear-down of Musk.