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We used to do this in the firewall at my first job. Every weekend the founder of the company would get drunk and login to servers and mess things up. So every weekend it was my job as the junior to go into our FreeBSD firewall and uncomment or update an ipfw line that blocked his IP-address.

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Sure it wasn't a weird grazing ritual? A cron script would've replaced you doing that, more efficiently and reliably.

When I did military service abroad, the new chefs rotating down was put on "sandwich alert" in which anyone on camp signal centers could call in the middle of the night, requesting a nice sandwich delivered. It was all fun and games, they were shortly let in on the thing and we all laughed at it afterwards. No-one abused it.

> No-one abused it.

Honest question: how can you be 100% sure?

Well I can't really, just hearsay. We were just a battalion and most were out on diverse smaller camps or manning checkpoints and the like, so we weren't that many that even could abuse it. And, it's a kind of abuse in essence really, so we can probably reverse my statement.

Naw, I used to party with the founder. It got wild.

The problem back then in 2004-2005 was that his DSL could give him a new IP lease anytime so it couldn't really be automated away without having a dyndns script running on his computer, which would never work.

I assume you are really talking about your current job at Twitter...

I don't think so, considering how Twitter is somehow running better with 80 percent of personnel removed

You could be right, but it's not like a large software project instantly falls apart if people leave. It'll keep running for a while but cracks will start to develop and nobody will be around to patch them up.

Aha. And what if someone is there, from the remaining 20%, to patch them up?

Those people are going to have to work a lot of overtime I guess? We'll see :)

> I don't think so, considering how Twitter is somehow running better with 80 percent of personnel removed reply

I believe you are getting downvoted (and now flagged and removed from the thread) for not substantiating your comment. HN does not seem to like single-line comments that do not provide info.

But I have to ask. Do you have any info or stats that shows that Twitter is really running better? By what metrics is it running better? Honest question.

A drop of 75%-80% in revenue doesn't seem like its anyone's definition of "running better".

Bold of you to assume Elon Musk would be able to use ssh.

I know you are joking but Tesla had an entire team devoted to making sure Elon does not fuck up important things.

I believe it is well documented that critical personnel were hidden when he was visiting the factories to avoid getting them rage-fired

I want to believe this but I can't find a source, can you share where you've read this?

> I want to believe this but I can't find a source

"Claims about Elon Musk since the Twitter takeover" in a nutshell.

"In war, truth is the first casualty."

These stories came from a former Tesla manager. But if you want a reputable source:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...

Thank you, that was a nice read.

Good day to you, kramerger.

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