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[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Did anyone come up with a demeaning name to call these little fucks yet? I submit "Elon's cucks"

Share yours.

[–] aesthelete 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This "headline" reads like the title of a porn story.

[–] ralakus 10 points 1 day ago

What are you doing step-code?

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago

Absolutely every prong of this attack on the government is for one goal: to declare mass emergencies by way of manufactured errors and chaos in order to seize ultimate power.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elez did in fact have write access, allowing him to push unvetted and untested changes straight to the Treasury's payments system — a nightmare scenario that could introduce all sorts of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and leave doors open for adversary hacker groups

I feel for whoever has to deal with the fallout.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

Us. It’s us who will have to deal with this.

This is like a reverse Mr Robot scenario.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The article doesn't say what he did, only that he had write abilities. Did he use them? How do we know? If yes, what were they specifically?

[–] draughtcyclist 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He could push directly to main/prod, so there weren't explicitly any code reviews or necessarily oversight. Also, that code would be private. Only an insider with repository access could tell us that.

That said, I also want to know. I'm guessing we'll hear about it soon enough.

[–] Maalus -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"could" doesn't mean "did"?

[–] draughtcyclist 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True. But there's zero reason to give permissions that reckless unless you plan on using them.

[–] LesserAbe 5 points 1 day ago

Josh Marshall, the reporter from Talking Points Memo asserted that he did push changes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

WAS HE CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE COOKIE JAR?

Does it really matter whether he did?

Der Müskrat has been screaming “LEMME AT THEM COOKIES” for a month straight while hiring unpaid cookie monsters. Whether or how it already happened, it’s pretty clear the cookie jar is gonna get raided by someone.

[–] slazer2au 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Worse case scenario, he tried to add JS libraries to the ancient Fortran code.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He wouldn't want to get his young tech bro hands dirty with Fortran. Surely there are cross-compilers that will translate your mission-critical payments Fortran to JS, maybe with an intermediate Rust and/or TS step. Fortran -> TS -> Rust -> JS, or similar, it would be quite a feat to behold. Never mind testing (that would be "wasteful" and "inefficient"), just push to prod and sit back and watch then chaos unfold, then blame it all on Biden and, I dunno, Bill Gates maybe.

[–] slazer2au 1 points 23 hours ago

He can't blame Russian hackers, so Chinese hackers it is.

[–] GreenKnight23 3 points 1 day ago

he didn't quit because of those racist tweets.

he quit because the bitch was embarrassed for trying to hack FORTRAN by dropping a JS lib into a repo like it was some kind of ABC made-for-tv spy movie.

[–] callcc 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Rofl, and now you need a toolchain of biblical extent to compile it all. Webpack, npm, rollup, ts, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

And it takes 16G of memory and 512G of disk space to compile.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Lemminary 6 points 1 day ago

pnpm install fortran

Please, have some standards.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

dogeboyo's got naughty access! it's the porn of security clearances in the world.

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