That’s not an apt comparison.

More like “we’ll have flying cars 50 years from now.”

There is no way the virus functioned. Seriously. The guy had no tech background.

He was most certainly being sarcastic.

I don’t (generally) sail the high seas, but I’m surprised that people don’t use SysInternals tooling on windows. Of note:

• ProcExp - A way better process explorer and has a built-in VirusTotal scanner for all running processes. 100 times better than standard process explorer. This in combination with windows defender is nearly always enough.

• AutoRuns - A tool to see what automatically runs on your system. Included image hijacks and such. This is for handling potential post-infection scenarios.

https://imgur.com/j0S32zL.jpg

I’m not ignoring evidence, I just see an alternative you don’t: He wants attention and he always has. He’s “losing” and the easiest way to get validation is to get it from those that are right-wing. He wants so badly to be treated as “a genius”.

Nobody other than staunch right-wingers believe his non-sense. He only gets headlines because controversy sells.

Don’t attribute to malice what is absolutely just idiocy. Musk is not some genius. He is quite literally a man-child who made money because he came from money (and maybe a little luck).

His hubris led to this disaster with twitter—nothing else.

I know very little about Lemmy specifically, but 403 generally means you’re not auth’d or don’t have permission.

Do you need to set an auth header perhaps? Your best bet would be to bring up browser dev tools and see what request the working browser is doing.