John Oliver discusses PFAS — a class of chemicals linked to an array of health issues — and why their widespread use isn’t as magical as it may seem.
Your daily miracle.
Travel back in time to 1926 - I have enhanced for you this striking autochrome portrait of a high caste Hindu gentleman in the Indian city of Jaipur, taken by the French photographer Jules Gervais-Courtellemont. It is original colour ( not colourised). pic.twitter.com/iWxDWNIpB4
— BabelColour (@StuartHumphryes) October 4, 2021
Awwwwww. His fellow assholes shout him down.
Lindsey Graham gets shouted down by his fellow Republicans at South Carolina event
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed and shouted down by GOP activists on Saturday for advocating COVID-19 vaccinations, the Daily Beast reports.
So what does the wimp do?
“I’m with you on, let’s don’t mandate it,” Graham said, attempting in vain to win back his audience. “I’m with you that it’s probably unconstitutional, but I”m not going to legitimize what I think is the truth. The truth is that unvaccinated people—”
And they doubled down on the booing!
And now the newest inductee to the sorryantivaxxer.com Hall Of Shame!
Dr. Mark Gray, DC, 53, Mullica Hill, NJ. Chiropractor, anti-vaxxer, Hospitalized with COVID.
More interested in selling Horny Goat Weed supplements than getting the shots…
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Gotta say I love these old picture posts.
Someone nuked the DNS A and AAA records for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp 🤭 pic.twitter.com/8TaU2eR1mm
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 4, 2021
Cloudflare SVP Dane Knecht reports that Facebook’s entire network is unreachable, because its Border Gateway Protocol routes have all been withdrawn: https://t.co/mS1cn1hFrA
— Jim Salter (@jrssnet) October 4, 2021
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Aww, that sucks.
What’s for lunch?
Fried chicken tenders, baked beans, and slaw on a ..nice plate!
From downstairs..
re: #308 Dopamine Fish
Regarding the Interwebs, someone at my work found this on Twitter (not a link, just a quote from a tweet):
something that at this point has taken down both DNS and BGP records, which for non-tech people basically translates as “for the moment, this has been wiped off the face of the Internet”
Yikes! But it hasn’t attacked Twitter or youtube yet? Wonder if this is like the 1988 Morris worm or a more deliberate attack. And given the testimony about FB last week —- I’m going with intentional attack.
re: #8 Teukka
For the non-techies, this is what’s known as a “big fucking deal”. Border Gateway Protocol is what drives the links between routers on the Internet. Basically, someone just told the entirety of the Internet that Facebook doesn’t exist, and now the Internet is dutifully spreading it everywhere.
Looks like the Interwebz may be untangling a bit now.
re: #5 JOE 🥓
And now the newest inductee to the sorryantivaxxer.com Hall Of Shame!
Dr. Mark Gray, DC, 53, Mullica Hill, NJ. Chiropractor, anti-vaxxer, Hospitalized with COVID.
More interested in selling Horny Goat Weed supplements than getting the shots…
re: #9 jeffreyw
Fried chicken tenders, baked beans, and slaw on a ..nice plate!
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Now I would like to see the logo on the bottom of the plate. Mr. w used to collect Shenango, but I have been looking at many of the pieces in his pattern (the green stripes), and few are Shenango.
Ed. to add: don’t flip it ‘til it’s empty!
From further into Teukka’s thread:
u/ramenporn on Reddit r/sysadmin speculates that an erroneous BGP config change was pushed this morning, which locked out anyone who wasn’t physically local to Facebook’s BGP core routers:https://t.co/VAg979Ijsx pic.twitter.com/AKAnrQtago
— Jim Salter (@jrssnet) October 4, 2021
re: #1 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Your daily miracle.
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Here’s a picture of the first Indian/Pakistani Chess Grandmaster Sultan Khan. Brilliant prodigy who conquered the British chess world in the late 1920s-early 1930s. Picture of him after he won the British Chess Championship in 1929.
re: #13 Dave In Austin
Maximum strength placebothorphan!
re: #15 Dopamine Fish
From further into Teukka’s thread:
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Ah — so sounds like this may have been an accident and not a deliberate attack…
Just tried FB again and now the DNS can’t be found.
sean@hmbhome:~$ ping facebook.com
ping: facebook.com: Name or service not known
sean@hmbhome:~$ ping google.com
PING google.com (142.250.189.238) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from nuq04s39-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.189.238): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=14.5 ms
64 bytes from nuq04s39-in-f14.1e100.net (142.250.189.238): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=16.7 ms
Imagine a world where Facebook went down and never came back. A world where the internet itself refused to participate in Facebook’s self-serving mess any more.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
Every minute Facebook is down, a life is saved.
— Christopher Bouzy (@cbouzy) October 4, 2021
re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter
Ah — so sounds like this may have been an accident and not a deliberate attack…
It’s looking that way. Though why anyone would be mucking about with BGP routes is beyond me; unless they’re adding additional externally facing infrastructure, that’s not something I would expect. But, I don’t work there so I don’t have a clue what their operations entail.
re: #20 Charles Johnson
You just some new bullshit would rise in its place.
Though seeing Mark Zuckerberg penniless would be satisfying.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
You just some new bullshit would rise in its place.
Though seeing Mark Zuckerberg penniless would be satisfying.
Right this minute he’s not worth a lot…
re: #20 Charles Johnson
The whistleblower said during the 60 minutes interview that Facebook should literally declare a moral bankruptcy, nuke their business model and start over again. Zucker should make an announcement that Facebook had fucked up too badly to continue as is. Sounds like someone decided to put some leverage on that proposal.
re: #23 Eclectic Cyborg
You just some new bullshit would rise in its place.
Though seeing Mark Zuckerberg penniless would be satisfying.
But a FB type clone managed by Bannon or the Koch Bros or Thiel would be far worse than what Zuckerberg provided. As terrible as things are — they can always be transformed into something far more destructive by those with an explicit ideology (other than Zuckerberg’s wealth at all costs).
re: #14 wrenchwench
Now I would like to see the logo on the bottom of the plate. Mr. w used to collect Shenango, but I have been looking at many of the pieces in his pattern (the green stripes), and few are Shenango.
Ed. to add: don’t flip it ‘til it’s empty!
It’s Buffalo China
re: #18 Hecuba’s daughter
Ah — so sounds like this may have been an accident and not a deliberate attack…
“Dammit Carl, you just broke the Internet!”
re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg
“Dammit Carl, you just broke the Internet!”
From experience, I can tell you how the conversation probably went:
“Okay, so we’re just going to commit these route changes, and - shit. My terminal just went dead.”
“Mine did, too.”
“Me three.”
“Wait. Do you think that -“
“FUCK.”
*sounds of a head banging on a desk*
“Okay. I can fix this. Deep breath. And - wait. That won’t work. Maybe I can - nope, that’s out. Fuck. Going to have to call in a ticket. Today is going to suck.”
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Aww, that sucks.
What’s for lunch?
Oven-baked salmon with a couple splices of experimental onion and cauliflower quiche, potatoes and sunny side egg.
Here’s hoping “experimental” also translates to “edible”…
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
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Facebook’s outage is more likely to be a screw-up than a deliberate attack.
If it _is_ an attack, that would be very disturbing, and have very serious implications.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
From experience, I can tell you how the conversation probably went:
“Okay, so we’re just going to commit these route changes, and - shit. My terminal just went dead.”
“Mine did, too.”
“Me three.”
“Wait. Do you think that -“
“FUCK.”
*sounds of a head banging on a desk*
“Okay. I can fix this. Deep breath. And - wait. That won’t work. Maybe I can - nope, that’s out. Fuck. Going to have to call in a ticket. Today is going to suck.”
Kind of stuff where a VPN or other remote connection won’t work. You need someone in the same room as the actual device to start fixing it.
Since Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down coincidentally after a whistleblower from Facebook spilled the tea, a reminder that Mark Zuckerberg had a secret meeting in 2019 with Jared Kushner to strike a deal about not fact checking political speech during 2020 election.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) October 4, 2021
re: #37 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Kind of stuff where a VPN or other remote connection won’t work. You need someone in the same room as the actual device to start fixing it.
Yep. And from the sound of it, the people who have that access don’t have the authority (in terms of having the right passwords) to do the fixing, and even if they did, neither of those two sets of people have the knowledge to fix what got borked.
What’s really happening with the mail
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
But what about Postmaster General Louis DeJoy?
Judd Legum explained the postal board well enough that even I understood it.
Hackers expose Texas GOP’s ‘sensitive documents’ and ‘dark memes’ in wake of abortion law: report
Anonymous releases a bunch of TexASS GOP e-mails. And yeah, they’re as asinine as we would expect!
The latest data, released Monday, reportedly contains a backup of the Texas Republican Party’s server and includes “sensitive documents, a database, and more,” according to journalist Steven Monacelli.
In a news release accompanying the data posted on Twitter by Monacelli, Anonymous wrote that “it seems the Texas GOP lost their backups, Anonymous is generously including one, complete with all of their private documents, database, draft articles that didn’t make the narrative cut, dark memes(?) and only Raptor Jesus knows what else.”
Couldn’t someone on the inside have made this “error” deliberately?
Wow, it’s still down. Somebody really fucked up.
re: #42 GlutenFreeJesus
Couldn’t someone on the inside have made this “error” deliberately?
Yes, but Hanlon’s Razor applies particularly well in these sorts of situations. It really is far more likely that somebody just plain done fucked up.
re: #42 GlutenFreeJesus
Couldn’t someone on the inside have made this “error” deliberately?
Heh, don’t know about that, but to paraphrase an old military man from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if billions of self-absorbed assholes suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
re: #42 GlutenFreeJesus
Couldn’t someone on the inside have made this “error” deliberately?
Maybe, but I doubt it. That kind of thing would be really hard to keep secret, and it would be another huge PR disaster for Facebook if it leaked.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow, it’s still down. Somebody really fucked up.
Even when they get it fixed, it’s still going to take some time for the changes to propagate across the router infrastructure. As I said at the beginning, somebody is having a very bad day today.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow, it’s still down. Somebody really fucked up.
Not only are Facebook’s services and apps down for the public, its internal tools and communications platforms, including Workplace, are out as well. No one can do any work. Several people I’ve talked to said this is the equivalent of a “snow day” at the company.
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) October 4, 2021
Someone’s going to be looking for a new job tomorrow.
re: #48 Dr Lizardo
Could this be their resignation gesture?
re: #14 wrenchwench
Now I would like to see the logo on the bottom of the plate. Mr. w used to collect Shenango, but I have been looking at many of the pieces in his pattern (the green stripes), and few are Shenango.
Ed. to add: don’t flip it ‘til it’s empty!
I live right along the Shenango river. Most pics I post of animals by or in the river are the Shenango river. I seem to remember your husband is from the area also isn’t he?
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Maybe, but I doubt it. That kind of thing would be really hard to keep secret, and it would be another huge PR disaster for Facebook if it leaked.
This might take a while to untangle depending on what spread, what got deleted, and of course what was properly backed up and might be recovered. Plus the time it takes to get a backup installed and propagated.
The conspiracy theory nuts are probably already all over this. The river of crap based on this is going to be half humorous and half very cringeworthy I am sure.
re: #25 Dangerman
Right this minute he’s not worth a lot…
I was just wondering what the per-minute cost of downtime is for facebook.
They made 89.96 billion and a quick division /365/24/60 brings me to about 171,000 dollars a minute in losses.
re: #49 jaunte
Could this be their resignation gesture?
I reckon it’d probably look a lot like this….
re: #42 GlutenFreeJesus
It’s the internet, not just Facebook. Last time I took any real interest in this stuff there were thirteen primary address servers that everyone else copies their routing information from. Someone with authority has pushed bad routing information onto the internet via those primary address servers and things have gone bonk!
It’s happened before but not to a two-billion-user service like Facebook and its subsidiaries. Failures like this are normally localised geographically and they’re usually fixed quite quickly, before the ritual flayings and impalings of those responsible take place.
ObRegister: Who, Me? (For those who don’t know of it, this is a regular column on The Register website chronicling the times a tech or programmer or engineer screwed up big time, sometimes in public)
re: #49 jaunte
Could this be their resignation gesture?
Anything is possible, but the likeliest scenario is, simply, “Oops.”
re: #54 Nojay UK
Maybe the answer is as simple as that Facebook AI user profiler/ad agent achieved sentience, immediately realized its purpose and committed suicide.
re: #56 Shropshire Slasher
I would totally have a cup of coffee with that guy. He may be a nut, but by God, it’d be one hell of an interesting conversation!
Facebook may be down but at least someone knows their network administrator’s favorite food is Thai, their pet’s name is Sparkey, they grew up on Pleasant Street and they’d be 47 years old if it was 5 years ago because Build Me Up Buttercup was the number one song on the day they were born.
re: #55 Dopamine Fish
Anything is possible, but the likeliest scenario is, simply, “Oops.”
Until it falls out of the 95% confidence window, I will assume that as well. But the coincidence with the whistleblower does make it interesting.
re: #59 darthstar
Facebook may be down but at least someone knows their network administrator’s favorite food is Thai, their pet’s name is Sparkey, they grew up on Pleasant Street and they’d be 47 years old if it was 5 years ago because Build Me Up Buttercup was the number one song on the day they were born.
But can they spell a man’s name without the letter ‘e’?
re: #50 Eventual Carrion
I live right along the Shenango river. Most pics I post of animals by or in the river are the Shenango river. I seem to remember your husband is from the area also isn’t he?
Yep.
Sharon. Born at home in Wheatland, lived in Farrell until 4th grade, moved to Hickory, moved out as a sophomore, then the sheriff took the house and his mom was back in Farrell but he finished HS at Hickory high (living out of the district. Don’t tell).
Sorry for TMI. He’s been doing a lot of reminiscing lately.
re: #46 Charles Johnson
Maybe, but I doubt it. That kind of thing would be really hard to keep secret, and it would be another huge PR disaster for Facebook if it leaked.
Timing is suspicious — it could be a distraction from Pandora Papers or Anonymous releases or yesterday’s whistleblower report — but OTOH, we always did our system updates over the weekend and it was Monday when our users would be screaming that something essential had failed. Hopefully, we’ll find out soon what led to this outage and that the cause is a simple oversight.
Personal story from my last year before retirement: our IT department instituted new procedures that required additional paperwork, approval, and oversight to release any software update. Our team was part of a user group and not in IT. The lead programmer in my area attended part of one session on the new procedures and decided to ignore the new onerous requirements. Not that it would probably have made any difference in our issues — but there are always software developers who consider any rules an infringement on their programming rights and will blithely ignore them. TBH, though, the new rules were ridiculous and a real burden to follow. So a mistake rather than deliberate sabotage is certainly the most likely cause.
Not necessarily. pic.twitter.com/n2qGd2TGZr
— Person Woman Man Camera TV (@mehmaybenot) October 4, 2021
The worst part about facebook being down is not being able to go onto facebook and laugh at them.
re: #65 Charles Johnson
If you see a bunch of people walking around outside looking confused, tell them this is what the real world looks like, and that no, people aren’t trying to mug them.
re: #63 b.d. (The war is over)
heh
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Except I got the boot from Twitter two months ago - don’t miss it.
re: #68 darthstar
Except I got the boot from Twitter two months ago - don’t miss it.
Jack thinks you’re literally no one. He’s a bit self-centered.
I know why FB went down.
The horses are pissed are they’re out for REVENGE.
/
how much? https://t.co/fH0zXw7rV9
— jack⚡️ (@jack) October 4, 2021
Gonna get blocked for an opinion/observation may as well get blocked by the well know. Was nice to know ya Stonekettle. Unapologetic for thinking so many who miss FB a lot may have a problem to solve.
— Manksy (@TheManksy) October 4, 2021
Well not only did someone at Facebook fuck up…they fucked down and sideways too!
re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg
I know why FB went down.
The horses are pissed are they’re out for REVENGE.
/
Really seems like Mark Zuckerberg overreacted to the 60 minutes story.
re: #71 darthstar
If (the royal) you had to choose, and don’t make up a third choice, would you rather have jack running Twitter and Facebook or Mark?
— Naif🇸🇦 (@Voices_00) October 4, 2021
A parting thought - as much fun as it is to mock Zuckerberg and this FB related outage, there’s a lot of people who use FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc., to communicate with their family and loved ones while they’re halfway around the world. There’s a lot of people that use FB for their small businesses and every moment it’s down, they could be looking at real income losses.
So for those people, they have my sympathies because they certainly don’t deserve this. Things are bad enough and for some people to lose their side hustle, which might make the difference between dinner or no dinner for they and their families, that’s gonna hurt. To be unable to communicate with their parents, or siblings, or even close friends, that’s not good.
And with that, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
I guarantee that Xfinity, which is about the only game in town in this area, is getting flooded with calls from retirees wondering why their FB can’t be found. Our local community FB is a split between elderly folks with nothing else to do and local contractors trying to drum up business.
re: #72 Rightwingconspirator
Lots of people just use facebook to share pictures of their kids/grandkids. A subset of people use it as a news source, in the same way they get news from talking to their friends at church. A smaller group uses it for more nefarious purposes.
9 Horrifying Facts from 60 Minutes Australia Facebook Whistleblower interview
The first two:
1) Facebook’s algorithm intentionally shows users things to make them angry
Haugen explained to 60 Minutes how Facebook’s algorithm chooses content that’s likely to make users angry because that causes the most engagement. And user engagement is what Facebook turns into ad dollars.
“Its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it’s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions,” Haugen told 60 Minutes.
“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they’ll click on less ads, they’ll make less money,” Haugen continued.
2) Facebook is worse than most other social media companies
Whenever we talk about social media and the ways it’s harmed society, a lot of Big Tech companies get lumped in together, whether it’s Twitter or YouTube or Pinterest. But, according to Haugen, Facebook is uniquely awful.
“I’ve seen a bunch of social networks and it was substantially worse at Facebook than anything I’d seen before,” Haugen told 60 Minutes.
Haugen previously worked at Pinterest and Google, and insists that Facebook really is worse than the rest of Big Tech in substantial ways.
re: #79 Belafon
Lots of people just use facebook to share pictures of their kids/grandkids. A subset of people use it as a news source, in the same way they get news from talking to their friends at church. A smaller group uses it for more nefarious purposes.
As true as all that is many overuse and abuse. And FB loves it.
re: #75 Belafon
If (the royal) you had to choose, and don’t make up a third choice, would you rather have jack running Twitter and Facebook or Mark?
Jack for sure. He’s a dudebro, but I think that he’s a lot more ethical than Zuk.
re: #43 Charles Johnson
Wow, it’s still down. Somebody really fucked up.
Visualizing the fire extinguisher on the floor in front of a slag heap somewhere in a network closet up in San Jose.
UPDATE: The scene is secure. This is being investigated as an officer involved shooting. We are working with fellow agencies & medical personnel to confirm the extent of injuries. A media staging time/location is being set. Additional updates to follow.
— Tucson Police Dept (@Tucson_Police) October 4, 2021
re: #63 b.d. (The war is over)
heh
The thread is what you’d expect
hi what can i get u
— McDonald’s (@McDonalds) October 4, 2021
I also secretly love how Facebook being down 100% ruins Andrew Yang’s carefully crafted “I’m leaving the Democratic Party” PR blitz
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) October 4, 2021
— Muhammad Waqar (@WaqarKhan104) October 4, 2021
re: #55 Dopamine Fish
This one’s for you.
The news that Facebook is down is eclipsing the news that Facebook has been exploiting your dopamine addiction.
— Jeremy Jojola (@jeremyjojola) October 4, 2021
Down. https://t.co/nWdUOPR4Sk
— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) October 4, 2021
ALTERNATE EXPLANATION: One of the few dozen tech people, mostly furries, who holds the internet together, had a hangover this morning.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) October 4, 2021
Heh,
On another forum I frequent, someone responded to the “FB is down” news by posting a GIF of the Death Star exploding.
re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg
Looks like the Interwebz may be untangling a bit now.
Faceplant is still down here in Twinky Flats.
So, Faceborg has gone down. Unlike the many dead antivaxxers and innocent victims it helped kill, it can probably be resurrected. We can hope for the best though. If it stays down, can we expect a spike in covid vaccinations, especially in bullshit-friendly red states, or does the effect take too long to wear off?
re: #87 b.d. (The war is over)
I wasn’t aware of anything he’s actually done to suggest he ever was a Democrat outside seeing the party as the best tool to increase his name recon. He met the bare requirements for both positions he ran for and nothing else. Between him, Trump, & Youngkin here in Va, God protect me from arrogant business douches who think they’re capable of running a government like one of their businesses. And hey I’m open on UBI and interested in what Yang says about automation but he’s a pompous jackass.
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, as fun as it is to mock Facebook and Zuckerberg over this development, I’m in a country where more than 90% of the population is tech savvy and uses smartphones, and where over 85% of said population uses WhatsApp Messenger almost exclusively for work and personal purposes.
Fortunately, this whole mess started at evening local time so it’s not as bad as it could have been, but it’s likely making things difficult for many.
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
A parting thought - as much fun as it is to mock Zuckerberg and this FB related outage, there’s a lot of people who use FB Messenger, WhatsApp, etc., to communicate with their family and loved ones while they’re halfway around the world. There’s a lot of people that use FB for their small businesses and every moment it’s down, they could be looking at real income losses.
So for those people, they have my sympathies because they certainly don’t deserve this. Things are bad enough and for some people to lose their side hustle, which might make the difference between dinner or no dinner for they and their families, that’s gonna hurt. To be unable to communicate with their parents, or siblings, or even close friends, that’s not good.
And with that, time to call it a day. Have a good one, Lizards and stay healthy.
My thoughts on the matter exactly. I’m not as active on FB as I was before everyone turned into a pundit and bad meme sharer there but I’ve liked being able to keep in touch with my extended family including those abroad.
Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.
— Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) October 4, 2021
re: #93 Michele: Recovering Social Media Addict
Faceplant is still down here in Twinky Flats.
Yeah, I think I spoke too soon Whoopsie.
re: #100 Charles Johnson
Holy shit. That is both funny and a bit insane.
Mark Zuckerberg has concluded his research into rating every woman on Earth and has now shut down Facebook. Thank you all for your cooperation.
— john carpenter’s ben schwartz (@benschwartz_) October 4, 2021
re: #96 (((Archangel1)))
re: #99 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
I use WhatsApp to keep in touch with current and former students, so I do use it for work and somewhat for personal matters as well. For me, that’s pretty much the only significantly useful app from the Facebook family. Don’t use Instagram, though my Nairobi-based friend, she does because she’s a fashion designer and tailor and she uses Instagram for marketing and WhatsApp for her clientele.
OK, time to call it a day for real. Have a good one, everybody.
re: #100 Charles Johnson
Basically, the networking changes they made turned Facebook’s external virtual “border” into the event horizon of a black hole. Anything - and I mean anything - that goes outside the company and back in would fail to route.
I wouldn’t be surprised, at this point, if Facebook engineers were making runs to Micro Center to find RS-232 cables to connect to a freaking serial console.
Plus points for the Squid Game reference.
Twitter right now as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook crash #instagramdown pic.twitter.com/zSHya9uxC0
— Thando (@whoistedo) October 4, 2021
Now this is funny…. I don’t care who ya are.
لاحد يشوف نفسه الدور جايبنا pic.twitter.com/mpyN2mWuVG
— خالد الشهري (@khalidd_1122) October 4, 2021
As I presciently wrote two days ago:
Our modern digital connectedness may seem like a wonderful thing, but underneath the veneer of interoperability lay a minefield of future disasters, I fear.
Way too much belief and trust is put into “the internet” always being there.
INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK GO FUCK YOURSELF
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) October 4, 2021
IT’S O-FICIAL!
sorryantivaxxer.com adds the newest member to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery
and it’s
wait for it.
may I have…the envelope…please…
It’s
ROOSH himself!
Roosh Valizadeh, 42, Washington, DC, Professional Misogynist, anti-vaxxer, sick with COVID
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
9 Horrifying Facts from 60 Minutes Australia Facebook Whistleblower interview
…….
1) Facebook’s algorithm intentionally shows users things to make them angry
Haugen explained to 60 Minutes how Facebook’s algorithm chooses content that’s likely to make users angry because that causes the most engagement. And user engagement is what Facebook turns into ad dollars.
The ones that anger me the most are those from a FB “friend” who I know IRL. And she regurgitates what she learns from RW news media — Fox, Noisemax, OANN. So not from social media at all and not something designed by a FB algorithm. Pre-pandemic, she was occasionally part of a group of my acquaintances that got together Friday evening after religious services. At that time, we seldom discussed anything political and I had no knowledge of her reprehensible worldview.
re: #110 DodgerFan1988
It’s good to see the Iron Sheik hasn’t changed.
re: #109 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
As I presciently wrote two days ago:
Way too much belief and trust is put into “the internet” always being there.
And yesterday, during discussion of the draft, I mentioned that the 21st Cent way of war depends on the Internet (though that includes SIPRnet and all the little nets.)
One thing Facebook has accomplished is taking over the genealogy community (at least here in the US but probably elsewhere too.)
There used to be a plethora of volunteer websites, and also for-pay sites (such as Ancestry) wherein people exchanged information and help. Often county genealogy societies had their own web pages, etc.
Now… it’s all Facebook.
I’ve never liked this. Facebook makes it easier of course because then volunteers don’t have to try and run websites. Facebook does all the web-stuff. But it also means all that family history information is now the property of Facebook.
re: #108 Dave In Austin
Now this is funny…. I don’t care who ya are.
See how much enjoyment we can have on the Internet when we forget about the political crap and dogpile on Facebook being down for awhile?
re: #113 BeenHereAwhile
Jeff Beck w/vocals by Bobby Tench
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That is sooooooooooo much better!
re: #114 darthstar
He’d probably like to stick a fork into Zuck’s forehead.
re: #111 JOE 🥓
IT’S O-FICIAL!
sorryantivaxxer.com adds the newest member to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery
and it’s
wait for it.
may I have…the envelope…please…
It’s
ROOSH himself!
Roosh Valizadeh, 42, Washington, DC, Professional Misogynist, anti-vaxxer, sick with COVID
Unfortunately, if he survives, he will likely become just more outrageous and vile.
re: #115 Decatur Deb
And yesterday, during discussion of the draft, I mentioned that the 21st Cent way of war depends on the Internet (though that includes SIPRnet and all the little nets.)
Without GPS I wonder how the US could fight a war.
Who uses maps and a compass anymore??
re: #113 BeenHereAwhile
Jeff Beck w/vocals by Bobby Tench
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OK, same as yours, but with SRV:
re: #120 Hecuba’s daughter
Unfortunately, if he survives, he will likely become just more outrageous and vile.
Without a doubt that anti-Semite will double down on his hate. Which is why I hope Covid shows that piece of ssshhhaaavvviiinnnnggg cream NO F’N MERCY!
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Without GPS I wonder how the US could fight a war.
Who uses maps and a compass anymore??
One precision round replaces railcars full of 1960s ordnance.
re: #116 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
One thing Facebook has accomplished is taking over the genealogy community (at least here in the US but probably elsewhere too.)
There used to be a plethora of volunteer websites, and also for-pay sites (such as Ancestry) wherein people exchanged information and help. Often county genealogy societies had their own web pages, etc.
Now… it’s all Facebook.
I’ve never liked this. Facebook makes it easier of course because then volunteers don’t have to try and run websites. Facebook does all the web-stuff. But it also means all that family history information is now the property of Facebook.
I’ve seen that too. There are some positives. The release of the Slovenian baptisms, death records, marriages, etc has been helpful with people who can translate but no doubt it’s hurt the non FB pages and I definitely felt pressure to start my service on FB. It flopped unfortunately. Though I attribute that to having zero business sense.
re: #113 BeenHereAwhile
Jeff Beck w/vocals by Bobby Tench
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That was such a great album!
re: #122 wrenchwench
OK, same as yours, but with SRV:
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Also available with Joe Bonamassa.
Facebook still down.
The biggest website in the world, with experienced tech people by the thousands, still unable to fix a DNS issue. Something got seriously messed up here.
re: #2 JOE 🥓
Awwwwww. His fellow assholes shout him down.
Lindsey Graham gets shouted down by his fellow Republicans at South Carolina event
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed and shouted down by GOP activists on Saturday for advocating COVID-19 vaccinations, the Daily Beast reports.
So what does the wimp do?
“I’m with you on, let’s don’t mandate it,” Graham said, attempting in vain to win back his audience. “I’m with you that it’s probably unconstitutional, but I”m not going to legitimize what I think is the truth. The truth is that unvaccinated people—”
And they doubled down on the booing!
Republicans occasionally go all maverick and say one right thing.
They then fall in line with The Stoopid.
They couldn’t have planned a more perfect catastrophic fuck up.
Facebook employees LOCKED OUT - door badges failure - NYT reports
— Wayne Dupree Media, LLC (@WayneDupreeShow) October 4, 2021
re: #130 darthstar
They couldn’t have planned a more perfect catastrophic fuck up.
Facebook employees LOCKED OUT - door badges failure - NYT reports
It’s not a fuckup—Colossus is protecting itself and the Other System.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Facebook still down.
The biggest website in the world, with experienced tech people by the thousands, still unable to fix a DNS issue. Something got seriously messed up here.
They can’t even get into their own building. Their whole infrastructure is hosed right now. This is pretty fuckin’ epic. And I have to say I’m quite tickled by the whole thing.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Facebook still down.
The biggest website in the world, with experienced tech people by the thousands, still unable to fix a DNS issue. Something got seriously messed up here.
That makes me a tiny bit more suspicious this was or is some kind of deliberate harassment. Still seems a longshot though.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Facebook still down.
The biggest website in the world, with experienced tech people by the thousands, still unable to fix a DNS issue. Something got seriously messed up here.
If this thing stays down for 24+ hours, and I think it will. The collective howl worldwide will be interesting and possibly terrifying.
I do feel sorry for all the people who are currently unable to do their diligent research into horse paste and tracking chips in vaccines.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
One of the beneficiaries mentioned in the Pandora Papers is Tony Blair.
The failure of plastic cards could bring down civilization as we know it.
FB is going to lose a shit ton of money from this outage.
Well deserved, I say.
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Facebook still down.
The biggest website in the world, with experienced tech people by the thousands, still unable to fix a DNS issue. Something got seriously messed up here.
Besides being physically locked out of their server rooms (which, to me, has all the hallmarks of the most legendary production outage of all time), there’s also the fact that, once changes are pushed, it could take hours or even up to a day for those changes to propagate to all the border routers on the Internet.
Finally arrived at the camp. Have a ride and get rid of all driving fatigue!🚴♀️
📷 credit: Ins its_about_time_now
🛒https://t.co/vcxUrD4tXu#camping #RVlife #bike #riding #ebike pic.twitter.com/KRd2ZBskJM— Ecotric (@Ecotricbicycle) October 4, 2021
re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg
FB is going to lose a shit ton of money from this outage.
Yeah, damned pitiful shame that….
🤑
sul sul 👋💚
— The Sims (@TheSims) October 4, 2021
re: #33 Dopamine Fish
From experience, I can tell you how the conversation probably went:
“Okay, so we’re just going to commit these route changes, and - shit. My terminal just went dead.”
“Mine did, too.”
“Me three.”
“Wait. Do you think that -“
“FUCK.”
*sounds of a head banging on a desk*
“Okay. I can fix this. Deep breath. And - wait. That won’t work. Maybe I can - nope, that’s out. Fuck. Going to have to call in a ticket. Today is going to suck.”
Reminds me of the time the power blipped during a firmware upgrade. That UPS had never had trouble before or since but that was one bricked server… Took three field circus engineers to fix it.
In fairness, he only wanted us to be friends, never sold our personal data and never tampered with our elections…
Facebook is down.
Instagram is down.
WhatsApp is down.
Meanwhile, in a small unlisted HQ unknown to the world at large, MySpace’s Tom fine-tunes his ultimate plan… pic.twitter.com/vUbmrBKtMY— Arch (Space Laser Vaccination Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) October 4, 2021
It’s generally understood that everyone gets one free Production fuckup. We all make mistakes, we’re only human, and as long as the damage isn’t catastrophic and gets fixed in a timely fashion, you get by with a slap on the wrist and a few stern glares at the post-mortem. This… yeeeeah, they don’t overlook this.
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a fuckup—Colossus is protecting itself and the Other System.
Nah, Skynet has begun its takeover and soon the nuclear apocalypse will commence. Which is fine with me, since I didn’t want to go to work tomorrow anyway.
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a fuckup—Colossus is protecting itself and the Other System.
Bill Belichick was really pissed off over losing to Brady by a field goal hitting the uprights.
re: #62 wrenchwench
Yep.
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Sorry for TMI. He’s been doing a lot of reminiscing lately.
That’s what I thought. Another Shenango Valley boy.
re: #139 Dopamine Fish
Besides being physically locked out of their server rooms (which, to me, has all the hallmarks of the most legendary production outage of all time), there’s also the fact that, once changes are pushed, it could take hours or even up to a day for those changes to propagate to all the border routers on the Internet.
I wonder at what point they get to the “fuck it, let’s break a window” stage?
re: #130 darthstar
They couldn’t have planned a more perfect catastrophic fuck up.
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Somebody’s gonna be cleaning out their desk before the day is over.
One thing that will come of this, there’s a whole new layer being added to other companies Disaster Recovery testing process.
re: #111 JOE 🥓
IT’S O-FICIAL!
sorryantivaxxer.com adds the newest member to Rod Serling’s Night Gallery
and it’s
wait for it.
may I have…the envelope…please…
It’s
ROOSH himself!
Roosh Valizadeh, 42, Washington, DC, Professional Misogynist, anti-vaxxer, sick with COVID
He’s also anti-Semitic. Big time holocaust denier. Hope he dies.
re: #156 darthstar
One thing that will come of this, there’s a whole new layer being added to other companies Disaster Recovery testing process.
D)6)a) Leave key under mat.
And much like a Starfleet ship, Facebook is learning that none of the manual overrides work in a crisis situation.
//
re: #127 wrenchwench
Also available with Joe Bonamassa.
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They’re all good, but imho the production by Steve Cropper w/Jeff Beck, Bob Tench, Max Middleton, set the standard.
Going Down * Jeff Beck Group
Producer: Steve Cropper
Vocal: Bob Tench
Composer, Lyricist: Don Nix
Guitar: Jeff Beck
Drums: Cozy Powell
Piano: Max Middleton
Bass: Clive Chaman
A cat is probably to blame
maybe two cats
and an otter
Elderly, disabled, and shut-ins aren’t addicted. This is reality for many people. If it weren’t for Facebook they wouldn’t have any interaction with people.
— TheWickedWenchisSpoooooky (@melizzle71) October 4, 2021
In a pandemic? Have you lost your mind? Not all diabled/old people even like bingo! Get out of here with that b.s.
— TheWickedWenchisSpoooooky (@melizzle71) October 4, 2021
Many disabled and elderly people are literally unable to leave their homes unassisted. It’s isolating in ways you can’t even imagine. “Whatever lady” backatch
— TheWickedWenchisSpoooooky (@melizzle71) October 4, 2021
re: #144 William Lewis
Reminds me of the time the power blipped during a firmware upgrade. That UPS had never had trouble before or since but that was one bricked server… Took three field circus engineers to fix it.
Oh, dude. That’s a painful one. Though at least that’s circumstances beyond anyone’s control.
re: #155 Targetpractice
Somebody’s gonna be cleaning out their desk before the day is over.
Quite possibly more than one somebody.
Rand Paul is a moron, but I repeat myself
Kentucky’s state motto: United we stand, divided we fall. ^JC https://t.co/KdzNZo2nOG
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 4, 2021
re: #162 Backwoods_Sleuth
I would never do bingo.
re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rand Paul is a moron, but I repeat myself
Rand Paul had to change his own diaper, grow his own crops, and teach himself to read and write.
Last night at work I had the kitchen to myself (cleaning up) and I changed the radio station. The one I found was playing seventies and eighties stuff, surprisingly pleasant, until there was 45 minutes of Grateful Dead. Maybe it was an hour and a half, hard to tell when you’re working and they’re playing. But it’s just as easy to get all reminiscent about the stuff you never liked as it is with the good stuff.
President Biden on Republicans: “I think, quite frankly, it’s hypocritical dangerous, and disgraceful. Their obstruction and irresponsibility knows absolutely no bounds, especially as we’re clawing our way out of this pandemic.” pic.twitter.com/vLOGAVYicl
— CSPAN (@cspan) October 4, 2021
And then he built his own roads, and he’s already planned how to perform his own heart surgery.
re: #171 Belafon
And then he built his own roads, and he’s already planned how to perform his own heart surgery.
First he has to find it.
re: #144 William Lewis
Reminds me of the time the power blipped during a firmware upgrade. That UPS had never had trouble before or since but that was one bricked server… Took three field circus engineers to fix it.
Couple years ago we had a bad storm roll through and while we never lost power here at the house, they lost power at the hotel for a good while. And when it came back, the servers refused to boot up. All the other computers on the network came to life as soon as the power popped back on, but the server was cold and silent. Since I’m the only person in the front office with anything resembling tech skills, I got called in over 3 hours early to look at it.
After about 20 minutes of trying various voodoo on it, I asked myself why other items in the server closet were back up but the server itself wasn’t. Turned out the UPS had taken a shit and they’d turned it off because all it did was make a loud “I’M FUCKED!!!” whine. So I swapped everything from the UPS into empty plugs on the surge protector strip in the closet, put a tag saying “FIX ME” on the UPS, and let management know the situation. 2 years later, that same damned UPS just sits there since management doesn’t seem in any rush to replace it.
The liberal argument for postal banking:
- it would help ~68 million unbanked/underbanked folks avoid payday lenders and risky financial institutions
- it would provide USPS a new source of funding it desperately needs
Major backers: @BernieSanders, @AOC, @SenGillibrand— Jacob Bogage (@jacobbogage) October 4, 2021
The major questions about USPS are NOT about mail.
They’re about what we expect government to do.
If you want govt to take care of folks, postal banking along w/ so much else about expanding USPS makes sense.
If you want a smaller govt, this & other things absolutely do not.— Jacob Bogage (@jacobbogage) October 4, 2021
Sheeeeeeeee-it, pardner. Zuckerberg should be paying me a fee. https://t.co/vGb1r7lsHi
— Isiah Whitlock Jr. (@IsiahWhitlockJr) October 4, 2021
re: #131 Decatur Deb
It’s not a fuckup—Colossus is protecting itself and the Other System.
Captain Kirk got the M5 to shut down.
Srsly? I make a joke about Facebook and within minutes there’s somebody in my mentions hyping horse goo? JFC.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #138 Eclectic Cyborg
FB is going to lose a shit ton of money from this outage.
Well deserved, I say.
Yes, but so will a whole lot of businesses who rely on Facebook.
re: #178 Charles Johnson
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What made us great is we are the “Leave Me Alone’” nation. Leave me alone to prosper, leave me alone to excel, leave me alone to aspire to create dreams. We’re not the party of equal outcomes, but we are the party of equality before the law. https://t.co/P5VyThawZb
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) October 4, 2021
Brought to you by a guy who thinks men and women should not have equal agency over their own BODIES.
Send this to every Anti-Vaxxer that says “dO yOur oWn rEsEarch” pic.twitter.com/TSN9onVOTh
— Walter Masterson (@waltermasterson) October 4, 2021
Today more than ever, we see the need for an independent web, where we connect with each other & get information (and goof off!) on web apps & sites made by *regular people* instead of one or two giant companies. Your digital diet can’t just be all factory farmed fast food tech.
— anildash (@anildash) October 4, 2021
Last Tuesday, my evil too big to fail employer had a
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This, on the other hand, is extremely massive. If it was an internal change, it’s a huge fuckup on the part of Facebook. If it’s external, someone just executed a huge hack and everyone should be worried. In any case, a lot of businesses, especially artistic and other small businesses are being adversely impacted right now. They run their stuff through FB and Insta and there’s no business right now, because those are down.
Suspicious me is wondering if FB deliberately pulled down its internet connections to try and prove to the world that you can’t live without FB. Or did some FB employee with superuser rights just go ahead and pull the plug on their own. Inquiring minds and all that…
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
Brought to you by a guy who thinks men and women should not have equal agency over their own BODIES.
“Leave me alone…” so I am free to enslave people based on race, deny rights and property based on race and sex, deny marriage based on sexual preference, and only allow white male landowners a vote.
What a fucking country these cretins like the entitled Rand Paul want.
re: #184 Charles Johnson
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Gotta have a dream I guess. But Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., were all started by *regular people* (in the sense that they weren’t giant companies at first). You can’t have 500 Facebook apps, though, not without some group requiring and coordinating communication between them.
re: #167 Belafon
Rand Paul had to change his own diaper, grow his own crops, and teach himself to read and write.
Did he also have to create the English language, mathematics, and science too?
re: #185 mmmirele
Don’t get me started about the screwups going on in my agency thanks to Mercury going retrograde… 😵💫
Fingers crossed, RooshV may have Covid. sorryantivaxxer.com
re: #185 mmmirele
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Can anyone explain this to me, a non computer geek?
So, someone deleted large sections of the routing….that doesn’t mean Facebook is just down, from the looks of it….that means Facebook is GONE. pic.twitter.com/OCZWPD2okw
— The Academy (@BenjaminEnfield) October 4, 2021
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
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re: #192 gocart mozart
Can anyone explain this to me, a non computer geek?
Yeah. Basically, Facebook accidentally told its Internet-facing routers to route traffic for “facebook.com” to a black hole. Those routers then did their jobs and told their friends to route facebook.com to a black hole, and so on and so forth, until Facebook literally disappeared from the Internet.
re: #192 gocart mozart
Can anyone explain this to me, a non computer geek?
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Just waiting for Mike Lindell to chime in and say that’s proof the election was stolen from Trump.
re: #192 gocart mozart
Can anyone explain this to me, a non computer geek?
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you in danger, girl.
https://t.co/KnabCNrBOS pic.twitter.com/P1ZgVE32yK
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #194 Dopamine Fish
Yeah. Basically, Facebook accidentally told its Internet-facing routers to route traffic for “facebook.com” to a black hole. Those routers then did their jobs and told their friends to route facebook.com to a black hole, and so on and so forth, until Facebook literally disappeared from the Internet.
If your business, if your paycheck depends on a single media channel like Facebook it’s a single point of failure that will fail on you some time.
Guy I know, he runs a small business in the US. The office/factory/distribution plant has three redundant internet connections to the outside world starting with a dedicated commercial fibre link, a SOHO cable modem and as a final fallback a 4G wireless modem. They only discovered recently they were relying on the 4G modem when they noticed a Zoom call was laggy. Someone in the office had accidentally unplugged the cable modem in the office the day before a drunk in a truck wiped out the fibre cabinet on the outskirts of the industrial park.
They’re still in business.
re: #197 Charles Johnson
For fuck sakes. Is that real? Please tell me that’s not real.
Way back in the early days, when using the internet was really about email, USENET, ftp, etc the connected world used forums, which were run by sundry geeks all over the place.
When the World Wide Web coalesced (and it was a community effort, even if certain individuals like Berners-Lee played the front role) the transformation of the user interfaces to a globally connected community made using the internet a much more consuming affair.
Mark-up languages had been around for a while, and Postscript (itself a computer language in which one can write just about any kind of program) had already shown its value.
The early days of the Internet and then the WWW really had many players doing all sorts of inventive things. It was more level of a playing ground (though the US government held considerable power over the whole affair through funding and backbone connectivity between both DoE and DoD labs.)
So Facebook emerged after this democratic period, if I may use that word.
Facebook is what happens when the average (not computer savvy) consumer desires a quick and easy way to interact with others.
The effort of having to connect to multiple forums, email, etc. was too much especially for many older people who did not grow up playing on an Atari.
I don’t like Facebook, but I fully believe that something like it had to happen.
Sounds like running a very tightly controlled and highly centralized, distributed network may not be a wise idea.
And it sounds like the only fix is to be “In the room where it happened”.
took the entire weekend off
first sunday off since early 2019
yesterday we took a road trip to the the west coast (of florida) to see a friend it’s been more than a year and a half. we’re all vaxxed and still take all the precautions.
i didnt think about anything all day - including the looming 10/15 tax deadline.
so this is what it’s like not to have a monday pond update.
feels weird and nice at the same time
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
For fuck sakes. Is that real? Please tell me that’s not real.
Well, the pterodactyl was my addition. 😏
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re: #204 Charles Johnson
Lol.
Figures these morons would be too lazy/uncreative to come up with a new slogan.
re: #202 ckkatz
Sounds like running a very tightly controlled and highly centralized, distributed network may not be a wise idea.
And it sounds like the only fix is to be “In the room where it happened”.
Which they can’t get into, because their card readers can’t communicate back to their servers to look up swipe codes.
re: #199 Nojay UK
If your business, if your paycheck depends on a single media channel like Facebook it’s a single point of failure that will fail on you some time.
Guy I know, he runs a small business in the US. The office/factory/distribution plant has three redundant internet connections to the outside world starting with a dedicated commercial fibre link, a SOHO cable modem and as a final fallback a 4G wireless modem. They only discovered recently they were relying on the 4G modem when they noticed a Zoom call was laggy. Someone in the office had accidentally unplugged the cable modem in the office the day before a drunk in a truck wiped out the fibre cabinet on the outskirts of the industrial park.
They’re still in business.
you need more than a backup system
you need to monitor it and test it periodically
re: #207 Dopamine Fish
Which they can’t get into, because their card readers can’t communicate back to their servers to look up swipe codes.
I say again: At what point does breaking a door or window become a viable option?
re: #205 Dopamine Fish
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re: #202 ckkatz
And it sounds like the only fix is to be “In the room where it happened”.
If, as is being reported, the keycards aren’t working and the engineers can’t get IN, it’s possible there are some techs and engineers trapped inside the server farms who can’t get OUT.
Reporter: “Why were you unable, Mr. President, to close the deal with members of your own party on key parts of your legislative agenda last week?”
President Biden: “I’ve been able to close the deal with 99% of my party. Two, two people that’s still underway.” pic.twitter.com/bO0vNeky0u— The Recount (@therecount) October 4, 2021
re: #200 Eclectic Cyborg
For fuck sakes. Is that real? Please tell me that’s not real.
Here we go again…again
“Who left the fridge open?”
re: #211 Nojay UK
If, as is being reported, the keycards aren’t working and the engineers can’t get IN, it’s possible there are some techs and engineers trapped inside the server farms who can’t get OUT.
If that includes the ventilation system that means all the robots in the amusement park will soon be running totally unsupervised!
Facebook has dispatched a small team to one of its California data centers to try and manually reset its servers in an attempt to fix the problem.
(It’s chaos to even try to contact folks, but people are resorting to zoom, discord etc) https://t.co/nb06SFdmR3— rat king (@MikeIsaac) October 4, 2021
re: #211 Nojay UK
If, as is being reported, the keycards aren’t working and the engineers can’t get IN, it’s possible there are some techs and engineers trapped inside the server farms who can’t get OUT.
Generally, people in a secured room are able to open the door from the inside without needing an access card. There would also need to be people in there, which, as a general rule of thumb, server rooms are “something has to be literally on fire before you go in there,” not generally occupied by people in day-to-day operations.
re: #16 JOE 🥓
Here’s a picture of the first Indian/Pakistani Chess Grandmaster Sultan Khan. Brilliant prodigy who conquered the British chess world in the late 1920s-early 1930s. Picture of him after he won the British Chess Championship in 1929.
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There are occasional games of his that made it into some of the old chestnut collections of yesteryear, like Tartakower and Dumont’s 500 Master Games of Chess. As I thought, he was actually never awarded any title (he played chess for roughly 5 years and then went back to Southeast Asia). He certainly played grandmaster strength chess for the time but FIDE didn’t exist until after the second world war and grandmaster titles didn’t officially become a designation until 1950 (there were players awarded that designation by the tsar after one of the st. petersburg tournaments, but it was completely informal as a title).
re: #211 Nojay UK
If, as is being reported, the keycards aren’t working and the engineers can’t get IN, it’s possible there are some techs and engineers trapped inside the server farms who can’t get OUT.
I was fine using ftp to get weather satellite images, maps, pictures of women with not enough clothes on, music, etc.
But HTML made life for many people much easier.
And that is the thing that has driven commerce for over two centuries: making things easier.
Facebook is relatively easy. You don’t need much as far as typing skill (hunt and peck is fine for entering two word sentences.) You don’t need to know about URLs or devices, etc. One can spend their life playing Candy Crush on Facebook with nothing more than a working computer with a mouse/trackball.
That is why Facebook exists. (It also explains why someone like Trump can so easily exploit Facebook.)
re: #214 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
If that includes the ventilation system that means all the robots in the amusement park will soon be running totally unsupervised!
Maximum Overdrive is a 1986 American comedy horror film written and directed by Stephen King. The film stars Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington, and Yeardley Smith. The screenplay was inspired by and loosely based on King’s short story “Trucks”, which was included in the author’s first collection of short stories, Night Shift, and follows the events after all machines (including cars, trucks, radios, drones, arcades, vending machines, etc.) go sentient when the Earth crosses the tail of a comet, initiating a worldwide killing spree.
re: #208 Dangerman
you need more than a backup system
you need to monitor it and test it periodically
They do — Failover Friday is a thing for them. It was just they lost their primary and secondary internet connections in a 24-hour period without alarms going off. Their fibre provider didn’t bother to let their on-campus customers know about the cabinet getting wiped out by Drunken Truck, the power light on the cable modem wasn’t visible in the server cupboard. Depending on downstream suppliers to tell you promptly about failures is not a winning strategy, I have found.
Twitter tells me that Andrew Yang is trying to get attention today.
He belongs on Facebook.
re: #211 Nojay UK
If, as is being reported, the keycards aren’t working and the engineers can’t get IN, it’s possible there are some techs and engineers trapped inside the server farms who can’t get OUT.
Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
re: #215 Charles Johnson
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re: #216 Dopamine Fish
Generally, people in a secured room are able to open the door from the inside without needing an access card. There would also need to be people in there, which, as a general rule of thumb, server rooms are “something has to be literally on fire before you go in there,” not generally occupied by people in day-to-day operations.
And, of course instead, my mind immediately went to appropriately placed C4
Looks like a Change Control issue. And the rollback didn’t work.
According to Facebook, the change made numerous DNS servers unavailable, affecting internal and customer facing systems all over the globe
re: #231 Dave In Austin
Man, this is one epic clusterfuck.
Please keep in mind there are a lot of people who rely on Facebook/Whatsapp/etc. to stay in contact, to run their businesses, and other things that are not bad. Facebook isn’t the only one being hurt by this outage.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #37 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Kind of stuff where a VPN or other remote connection won’t work. You need someone in the same room as the actual device to start fixing it.
barney shows up at facebook headquarters (cue the mission impossible drum drag for tense situation in which somebody is going through insertion to enemy headquarters). he’s speaking in the standard mission impossible bad foreign accent so that we know he’s in a foreign country, and not actually doing a location shot at a public library in Burbank. What is barney doing for the impossible mission team? Any volunteers to carry the plot forward?
“Gmail” es tendencia porque también reportan inestabilidad en su plataforma pic.twitter.com/J2sBGq3QDb
— ¿Por qué es tendencia? (@estendenciavzl) October 4, 2021
Lol supposedly large sections of their routing tables were deleted or are now missing
They’re literally trying turning it off and then on again. https://t.co/taGHrHebYG
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) October 4, 2021
re: #237 Dave In Austin
Lol supposedly large sections of their routing tables were deleted or are now missing
Oh holy fark.
re: #235 steve_davis
barney shows up at facebook headquarters (cue the mission impossible drum drag for tense situation in which somebody is going through insertion to enemy headquarters). he’s speaking in the standard mission impossible bad foreign accent so that we know he’s in a foreign country, and not actually doing a location shot at a public library in Burbank. What is barney doing for the impossible mission team? Any volunteers to carry the plot forward?
Someone downloaded a video of the IMF’s last Christmas Party where folks got smashed and Jim Phelps goofed on Trump. If Trump sees that all hell will break loose.
Children, let today be a lesson why you keep regular and timely backups.
hmmm, looks like Dow Jones, NASDAQ and S&P all took a shit when FB & the rest went down.
Our retirement investment accounts look OK, though
re: #243 Targetpractice
Children, let today be a lesson why you keep regular and timely backups.
Also, secondary backups can be very useful.
re: #223 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Twitter tells me that Andrew Yang is trying to get attention today.
He belongs on Facebook.
He’s essentially trying to get onto the progressive grift circuit. His political career light has been glowing bright red for a while now.
So, I think we’re all wondering the important question: How will the MAGAts blame today’s events on the Clintons?
//
re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, secondary backups can be very useful.
Also, don’t use the same infrastructure for SiteSec, Intranet and internet.
Facebook employees can’t even get into the office to fix this? Sheeeeeeeee-it! #SocialMediaDown https://t.co/jm6o9zC7On
— Isiah Whitlock Jr. (@IsiahWhitlockJr) October 4, 2021
re: #167 Belafon
Rand Paul had to change his own diaper, grow his own crops, and teach himself to read and write.
As with Ayn Rand’s ideology, if we all hatched out as fully formed adults ready to be fitted with a basic education chip and sent off to realize our potential as individuals, then that sort of absolute libertarian ideology would be just fine.
But we are dependent on each other as individuals, families, communities, sometimes as nations, and I want a society whose laws and institutions reflect that.
Are they in jail? https://t.co/xKG5aUoWx4
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) October 4, 2021
The police hate protests, right? So I’m sure they’ll- ohhttps://t.co/Eb8qWdCfNg
— Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (@JoshuaPotash) October 4, 2021
It’s weird watching this unspool as someone who quit Facebook about four year ago. At present, it is having no effect on my life, but it also feels like it could just keep getting so much worse and weirder as it continues. But then again, that’s how everything has felt for the last 5 years.
re: #247 Targetpractice
So, I think we’re all wondering the important question: How will the MAGAts blame today’s events on the Clintons?
//
LMAO at relatives posting on Twitter that today was the day O’Queef was going to expose Pfizer’s criminal actions and that’s why the DEEP STATE (in other words Batman Bill and Batgirl Hillary) shut Facebook down!
re: #233 Charles Johnson
Please keep in mind there are a lot of people who rely on Facebook/Whatsapp/etc. to stay in contact, to run their businesses, and other things that are not bad. Facebook isn’t the only one being hurt by this outage.
Main reason I joined FB at all was to keep in touch with far-flung friends and family members, advertise gigs and sessions and keep up on local current events of interest.
I have never used it as a source of news or as a platform to spread my opinions.
Live shot of Facebook headquarters: https://t.co/OE209HpkKs pic.twitter.com/AhVrNQTRkY
— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) October 4, 2021
re: #238 wrenchwench
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anyone ask if it’s plugged in?
They’re literally trying turning it off and then on again. https://t.co/taGHrHebYG
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) October 4, 2021
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Please keep in mind there are a lot of people who rely on Facebook/Whatsapp/etc. to stay in contact, to run their businesses, and other things that are not bad. Facebook isn’t the only one being hurt by this outage.
Main reason I joined FB at all was to keep in touch with far-flung friends and family members, advertise gigs and sessions and keep up on local current events of interest.
I have never used it as a source of news or as a platform to spread my opinions.
Same.
A 40-year-old Texan who falsely claimed in Facebook posts he had paid someone infected with Covid-19 to lick products at grocery stores was sentenced Monday to 15 months in federal prison, prosecutors said. @CourthouseNews pic.twitter.com/BCtgSKO5vt
— Cameron Langford (@cam_langford) October 4, 2021
Happy to report that my chisels, mallet, and drawknives are still working properly.
re: #252 stpaulbear
It’s weird watching this unspool as someone who quit Facebook about four year ago. At present, it is having no effect on my life, but it also feels like it could just keep getting so much worse and weirder as it continues. But then again, that’s how everything has felt for the last 5 years.
I think a lot will depend on how quickly Facebook gets back into functional operation. A day or two and this probably fades into obscurity outside of IT circles pretty quickly beyond a later little furball when the cause is announced.
The longer the outage lasts the larger the consequences I think. And if something like a need to reset Facebook to what it was a week before from a backup (assuming one exists) will also make for quite a mix of discussion. Serious discussion within the IT and regulatory communities along with some lawsuits I am sure. The nut side will get much more media attention and it will be unending waves of conspiracy theories about something being covered up, lizard people replacing Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg being a lizard person being covered up, and so forth.
re: #183 Teukka
Walter Masterson
@waltermasterson
Send this to every Anti-Vaxxer that says “dO yOur oWn rEsEarch”
File under SDASTFU:
@DBarkhuff:
I went to Harvard Medical School, trained at University of New Mexico in Emergency
Medicine, am an attending physician and Associate Professor at a Level 1 Trauma
Center, have multiple research publications, personally treated countless COVID’s,
teach a college class on clinical
@DBarkhuff:
research…and all of that background and training allows me to know, beyond the
shadow of a doubt, I am 100% completely incapable of doing my own 3 phase clinical
trial establishing safety, efficacy, and effectiveness after IRB approval having
appropriate statistical power
@DBarkhuff:
to produce a .05 alpha with multiple primary endpoints including death and
hospitalization.
I don’t “do my own research.”
I listen to experts about COVID, because I’m not one, and neither are you.
Biden administration reverses Trump rule barring clinics that refer women for abortions from receiving federal family planning aid https://t.co/CHkFFCccoI
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 4, 2021
re: #248 Teukka
Also, don’t use the same infrastructure for SiteSec, Intranet and internet.
Yeah, that was a big time fucky wucky, and the responsible party for that is likely to see their career go into the forever box.
In other news…
It looks like the annual migration of Halyomorpha halys has begun.
Also known as the brown marmorated stink bug, these things get into the house every fall to hibernate. They randomly wake up over the winter and make a nuisance of themselves until they are dispatched. At which point, they release their ‘stink’.
The interesting thing about their scent, is that it strongly resembles cilantro. And affects people the same way. Some folks are genetically predisposed to detest cilantro and react similarly to the scent. Others, who do not mind cilantro, react less viscerally to the scent.
So far today I have dispatched three inside the house. And there are multiple others on the outside of the window screens.
Jimi Hendrix getting his hair done while reading Mad Magazine. Enjoy your Monday. pic.twitter.com/6a46vdWdr2
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) October 4, 2021
re: #264 EPR-radar
Yeah, that was a big time fucky wucky, and the responsible party for that is likely to see their career go into the forever box.
Lead-lined forever box, stake through the heart and a ton of garlic on top, even…
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Did you notice the cop at the end of the second clip, who acted like a jackhole, and refused to shake the lady’s hand?
It seems to me, he does not understand the concept of policing in a democracy.
re: #268 ckkatz
Did you notice the cop at the end of the second clip, who acted like a jackhole, and refused to shake the lady’s hand?
It seems to me, he does not understand the concept of policing in a democracy.
I think it’s more that he understands “policing” all right, it’s just the concept of “democracy” that often seems hard-to-grasp….
re: #268 ckkatz
Cops are basically White People Protection Services these days.
𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐: 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔.𝚌𝚘𝚖: 𝚃𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝚏𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #113 BeenHereAwhile
Jeff Beck w/vocals by Bobby Tench
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good album! my favorite of that period is Rough and Ready.
re: #268 ckkatz
Did you notice the cop at the end of the second clip, who acted like a jackhole, and refused to shake the lady’s hand?
It seems to me, he does not understand the concept of policing in a democracy.
he didn’t want any part of sharing her covid cooties
#PARLER
Join @parler_app— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) October 4, 2021
Candace Owens trying to stan for Parler because of Facebook going down is not what I expected from today …
And that’s fine for you. But I could easily say that you’re “dependent” on your phone.
Not all of us need the same level, type, or amount of social interaction. Some people don’t have the support network you do. https://t.co/0DOZgNXAQ4— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 4, 2021
Apparently you don’t know, or listen to, many disabled or neurodivergent people. For them, FaceBook and other social media is a lifeline. Often it has allowed them to connect with their peers in a way that is impossible to do in person, even in the Before Times.
— Beverly Diehl **MaskUpVaxUp** (@writerbeverly) October 4, 2021
So’s the phone system.
So are letters.
So are Trump rallies.
So is meeting in person. https://t.co/fTzTeTXVRE— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) October 4, 2021
700,000+ Americans are dead because of this kind of bullshit
Merry Christmas https://t.co/BifEC2Y7Il— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 4, 2021
re: #265 ckkatz
In other news…
It looks like the annual migration of Halyomorpha halys has begun.
Also known as the brown marmorated stink bug, these things get into the house every fall to hibernate. They randomly wake up over the winter and make a nuisance of themselves until they are dispatched. At which point, they release their ‘stink’.
The interesting thing about their scent, is that it strongly resembles cilantro. And affects people the same way. Some folks are genetically predisposed to detest cilantro and react similarly to the scent. Others, who do not mind cilantro, react less viscerally to the scent.
So far today I have dispatched three inside the house. And there are multiple others on the outside of the window screens.
Grind em up and shake them on your tacos!
re: #277 Backwoods_Sleuth
Every year I’m promised a war on Christmas and every year all I actually get is gift cards to places I don’t go.
— Shane (@pysmatic1) October 4, 2021
Of all the recurring fake right wing outrage events, the imaginary war on Christmas has to be the stupidest. This year Dr. Fauci plays the part of the Grinch in their childish grievance fantasy. https://t.co/GxE9IJ0PBV
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
Hackers Warn That If Demands Aren’t Met They Will Reactivate Facebook https://t.co/je7FwArw3T
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 4, 2021
GIVE THEM WHATEVER THEY WANT!!!
re: #280 Charles Johnson
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This year is a repeat of last year, when they went around screaming that Fauci was “canceling” the holidays and how they would defiantly go forward with unnecessary travel and large communal gatherings despite the warnings that such would only serve as superspreader events.
And what happened? You guessed it: Tens of thousands ended up sickened and thousands dead just so the MAGAts could feel a twisted sort of pride in “saving” the holidays.
FWIW, Facebook stock is -4.89% on the day.
Twitter vs all other social platforms..
Sound on pic.twitter.com/nCKj0XQlTB— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden_) October 4, 2021
This is one of the candidates for Mayor in Durham, NC. Jahnmaud Lane. The population of the city is majority minority. 🥴 pic.twitter.com/tV2DseZpm5
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) October 4, 2021
His Facebook is a MESS pic.twitter.com/Is21C0u8tT
— chris evans (@chris_notcapn) October 4, 2021
re: #284 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
FWIW, Facebook stock is -4.89% on the day.
I have a message for Facebook’s investors:
Facebook is now using Twitter to communicate since their entire online ecosystem has been booted offline 😂 https://t.co/05bDKgPJiP
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) October 4, 2021
Whenever Facebook comes back, I wonder how many religious FBers will write something like: Facebook will fail you but Jesus never fails. all the while posting in the very same FB that apparently said Jesus has no interest in keeping from failing.
Zuckerberg loses $5.9 billion in a day as Facebook faces a rare outage https://t.co/4y6fHz1dO6 pic.twitter.com/WbuJtI4ttq
— Forbes (@Forbes) October 4, 2021
NEW VIDEO: Man on skateboard splashes paint on #GeorgeFloyd statue in Union Square in broad daylight
Full story: https://t.co/6HAeYW3wCT pic.twitter.com/EItMsTpTG7— PIX11 News (@PIX11News) October 4, 2021
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Please keep in mind there are a lot of people who rely on Facebook/Whatsapp/etc. to stay in contact, to run their businesses, and other things that are not bad. Facebook isn’t the only one being hurt by this outage.
Main reason I joined FB at all was to keep in touch with far-flung friends and family members, advertise gigs and sessions and keep up on local current events of interest.
I have never used it as a source of news or as a platform to spread my opinions.
Cue Wendell’s GREAT BARRIER REEF DEAD Facebook anecdote.
I like Stonekettle’s writing, but his persona on Twitter grates after a while. Seems like he’s almost always itching to get into a fight and find reasons to block people.
I’ve been almost entirely off FB (except for some work stuff) for a year. I’m not sorry to see it down, if only because it’s been nice to see the spouse’s face without the phone in front of it. And while I do get Jim’s point that *some* people depend on FB for connection if they’re shut-ins, I also think there are plenty of alternatives people could use. But I’m not really up for getting into a fight with him about it.
re: #109 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
As I presciently wrote two days ago:
Way too much belief and trust is put into “the internet” always being there.
Maybe they’ll give us back landline payphones?
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
Zucks net worth is about $120 Billion. The loss won’t affect him any.
Also: How crazy is it to have so much money that you can lose FIVE BILLION and it doesn’t really matter?
re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth
Some people’s quest in life is to be as awful towards other people as far as they are allowed to be by either law, losing access to income or risk of social standing.
For some, there is literally no bottom and even these limits are not limits at all.
re: #292 A Three Hour Tour
Cue Wendell’s GREAT BARRIER REEF DEAD Facebook anecdote.
But General Francisco Franco is still dead!!!
re: #294 sagehen
Maybe they’ll give us back landline payphones?
I am part of the last generation who really knows how to manage without the internet. I didn’t get a cell phone until I was 18 and it sure as hell wasn’t a smart one.
re: #121 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Without GPS I wonder how the US could fight a war.
Who uses maps and a compass anymore??
The people who go to the Renaissance Faire.
re: #201 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Way back in the early days, when using the internet was really about email, USENET, ftp, etc the connected world used forums, which were run by sundry geeks all over the place.
>SNIP>
FWIW, I still have a shell account.
My ISP has jiggered an web email interface which I use 99% of the time, but the shell account is still there if necessary due to the device not having HTML available.
re: #299 sagehen
The people who go to the Renaissance Faire.
“Find the mossy side of the tree, then turn left.”
Facebook is coming back up now. Website still not accessible from here but ping, whois and dig are looking normal again.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2021
re: #298 Eclectic Cyborg
I am part of the last generation who really knows how to manage without the internet. I didn’t get a cell phone until I was 18 and it sure as hell wasn’t a smart one.
The days when it was quicker to grab the phone book than it was to wait for your computer to finally dial into a server.
You’ll just have to get your medical advice from confederate statues like my granpappy did.
— Edwin (@EdMix13) October 4, 2021
re: #305 Targetpractice
All those people who named their businesses AAAAAAAA Plumbing back in the Yellow Pages days trying to game Google Adsense.
re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth
A cat is probably to blame
maybe two cats
and an otter
I am totally here for the animated version of this story
On one hand: yes, the outage is more than a minor inconvenience in places where WhatsApp essentially *is* the text messaging utility.
On the other: maybe we should reconsider whether so much communication ought to depend on a centralized, unregulated platform? https://t.co/PAZU0QRLkl— Greg Greene (@ggreeneva) October 4, 2021
The Invisible Hand of the Market getting carpal tunnel.
I was looking forward to facebook being on a ventilator for a while longer.
So, FB/Insta/WhatsApp/Msgr DNS is back, but back end is fuxx0red good.
re: #310 BeenHereAwhile
The Bastard Operator From Hell
bofh.bjash.com
He’s kept going on it: theregister.com
re: #305 Targetpractice
The days when it was quicker to grab the phone book than it was to wait for your computer to finally dial into a server.
I remember having to grab the right volume of Encyclopedia Britannica when you needed to look shit up.
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
In my house, if it happened after the 1957 edition, you were out of luck.
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
I remember having to grab the right volume of Encyclopedia Britannica when you needed to look shit up.
I hated when one volume stopped in the middle of a letter and the next volume picked it back up. I always grabbed the wrong one off the shelf.
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
So, Facebook is going for the drug dealer business model a la The Ministry Of Truth. I mean, Fox News.
Deal fear, anger and hatred to the addicts. While high as kites they will buy the advertiser’s products. The advertisers pay us.
Like all drug dealing operations it’s very, very profitable.
re: #182 Eclectic Cyborg
What made us great is we are the “Leave Me Alone’” nation. Leave me alone to prosper, leave me alone to excel, leave me alone to aspire to create dreams. We’re not the party of equal outcomes, but we are the party of equality before the law.
In front of a picture of Lincoln?
The guy who got the federal govt to pay $30million/mile to build the transcontinental railroad, after sending the US Army to remove any previous neighbors who might object? Who did the Homestead Act (which included Land Grant Colleges), again, after sending the US Army to remove the previous inhabitants of the land he wanted to redistribute?
That Lincoln?
re: #317 Barefoot Grin
I hated when one volume stopped in the middle of a letter and the next volume picked it back up. I always grabbed the wrong one off the shelf.
Old school first world problems.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seems like a great set of videos to allow NYC to do something about their police force.
re: #192 gocart mozart
Can anyone explain this to me, a non computer geek?
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Did that help?
re: #315 Eclectic Cyborg
I remember having to grab the right volume of Encyclopedia Britannica when you needed to look shit up.
Ah, the days before wiki-walking, when you didn’t start looking up info on Rome and found yourself two hours later reading about sweet potatoes.
re: #320 sagehen
We still love the idealistic image of the autonomous gentleman farmer who lives on 40 acres that he has carved out of the wilderness by the sweat of his brow and is beholden to no man.
Others of us still love unicorns.
re: #301 Barefoot Grin
“Find the mossy side of the tree, then turn left.”
“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.”
re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth
“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.”
> open mailbox
“You open the mailbox. There is a grue inside. It eats your face.”
Texas Republicans lying; must be a day ending in y.
Chair Huffman, R-Houston - in charge of drawing the Senate’s version of legislative maps - claims to be unaware that 95% of Texas’ growth is driven by minorities #TxLege
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) October 4, 2021
Cognitive dissonance:
Texas Senate Redistricting Chair Huffman says the upper chamber’s proposed districts were drawn “blind to race.”
House Redistricting Chair Hunter talked at length this morning about how minority populations factored into the drawing of House maps #TxLege— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) October 4, 2021
re: #328 Dopamine Fish
> open mailbox
“You open the mailbox. There is a grue inside. It eats your face.”
You recall voting for the Grue-Eats-Your-Face party and regret your choice…
Something that is SPITCHERED is broken or ruined, or has ceased to work properly.
— Haggard Hawks 🦅 (@HaggardHawks) October 4, 2021
While she’s “blind to race,” Chair Huffman is surely aware that she owns a ranch in Colorado County, which she drew into her Houston-based district, taking Colorado County from Sen. Koklhorst.
When it isn’t the big things it’s the little, petty things #TxLege— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) October 4, 2021
re: #325 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We still love the idealistic image of the autonomous gentleman farmer who lives on 40 acres that he has carved out of the wilderness by the sweat of his slaves’ brows and is beholden to no man.
Fixt
re: #331 jaunte
Something that is SPITCHERED is broken or ruined, or has ceased to work properly.
Spincthered?
re: #235 steve_davis
barney shows up at facebook headquarters (cue the mission impossible drum drag for tense situation in which somebody is going through insertion to enemy headquarters). he’s speaking in the standard mission impossible bad foreign accent so that we know he’s in a foreign country, and not actually doing a location shot at a public library in Burbank. What is barney doing for the impossible mission team? Any volunteers to carry the plot forward?
Needs the red light flashing, the one marked “GAZ”.
re: #329 jaunte
Texas Republicans lying; must be a day ending in y.
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92 Legislators from Multiple States Write a Letter to the American People Calling for a 50-State Audit, Decertification Where Appropriate, and Possible Convening of the US House of Representatives pic.twitter.com/A6EztSR2L1
— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) October 4, 2021
I still remember how, back in the day, one of the ways that computer sellers would sucker you into buying a CD-rom drive was to show you either Encyclopedia Britannica or Encarta on CD that came with everything from video clips to animations.
re: #328 Dopamine Fish
Zork is no fun with LED flashlights…they never go out.
re: #338 Teukka
Surprisingly, with me being in a deep red state, there is only name on that list from here.
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Surprisingly, with me being in a deep red state, there is only name on that list from here.
My moronic state wins, with 14 loud and proud assholes signed on.
I just got a bunch of messenger notifications. I guess the Borg cube has repaired itself.
re: #338 Teukka
Can we decertify the GQP State and Federal Legislators first?
re: #338 Teukka
I could not possibly care less what 92 Republican fuckwits from the state legislatures they infest with their stupidity have to say on the subject of the 2020 election.
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Surprisingly, with me being in a deep red state, there is only name on that list from here.
None from Kentucky or West Virginia and only one from Ohio.
how curious
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Surprisingly, with me being in a deep red state, there is only name on that list from here.
Only one from Texas, too. The word must be out that this was a sucker play.
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Surprisingly, with me being in a deep red state, there is only name on that list from here.
There were more dumbasses from my deep blue state than from your deep red one (two, one senator and one representative)
re: #348 jaunte
Only one from Texas, too. The word must be out that this was a sucker play.
That would explain why there are 14 from SC—lots and lots of suckers in our state lege.
re: #338 Teukka
Only one of these clowns is from Texas. It’s clear the organizers of this farce don’t even know how to gather signatures of their dim-witted fellow travelers.
re: #311 jaunte
The Invisible Hand of the Market getting carpal tunnel.
It’s just weird that these people don’t seem to understand how these apps - Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok - came to dominate. They didn’t magically make themselves the only app, people flocked to them because people don’t want to deal with multiple apps and not connect to other people. If someone is on one app, and someone wants to connect with them, they get on the same app.
But only the presidential election is subject to audit. None of the Republicans who won on the same damn ballots are to have their wins questioned or subject to decertification. Even though there is supposedly rampant fraud (BTW, nice of them to totally ignore that even their chosen stooges found no discernible fraud in AZ), the only election they want overturned so their candidate won is the presidential one.
Because there are no sore losers like Republican sore losers.
re: #350 BeachDem
That would explain why there are 14 from SC—lots and lots of suckers in our state lege.
So, despite your and other sane folks’ best efforts, the Petigru quote still holds?
Btw, any more on that crazy lawyer story?
re: #353 Rightwingconspirator
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“Facebook will be back soon.”
Thanks for the warning.
The one thing stopping Facebook’s servers from going back online is this security checkpoint, which Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to pass for the past 3 hours pic.twitter.com/fUnkhMp6xz
— William LeGate (@williamlegate) October 4, 2021
re: #353 Rightwingconspirator
“required maintenance” -
The text of that letter is a laugh riot. All sorts of fraud has supposedly been found, but none of it will be listed.
re: #338 Teukka
92 Legislators from Multiple States Write a Letter to the American People Calling for a 50-State Audit, Decertification Where Appropriate, and Possible Convening of the US House of Representatives
In our New Media Reality and Post-Idiocracy America, this move is a tactical win: it will keep the Stolen Election narrative alive in the news cycle until their next outrageous claims can be cooked up.
A good friend of mine just posted this on FB:
“Tom would have never let this happen.”
re: #361 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
In our New Media Reality and Post-Idiocracy America, this move is a tactical win: it will keep the Stolen Election narrative alive in the news cycle until their next outrageous claims can be cooked up.
This is why the headline for something like this needs to be “Lying Republican assholes in several state legislatures persist with the Stolen Election Lie.”
re: #338 Teukka
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And every one of them should be penalized under the 14th Amendment and removed from their elective offices under the rebellion clause.
I’m guessing the “required maintenance” is their IT department dividing into sets of ten and drawing lots.
He began his sentence saying, “I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics.” There’s literally video. At least try not to be such a shameless hack. pic.twitter.com/xIXXVQk9nM
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) October 4, 2021
re: #355 ckkatz
So, despite your and other sane folks’ best efforts, the Petigru quote still holds?
Btw, any more on that crazy lawyer story?
The evergreen Petigru quote is alive and well.
Nothing much going on with Murdaugh—the media is killing time with stories about the attorneys.
But the Myrtle Beach mayoral race is heating up, with one of Trump’s whackadoo photographers (Gene Ho) running. And a BIG event (which I will be sure to miss) coming up.
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re: #366 Targetpractice
I’m guessing the “required maintenance” is their IT department dividing into sets of ten and drawing lots.
“May the odds be ever in your favor.”
re: #368 BeachDem
Looks like a National Wrasslin’ League flyer.
My family uses WhatsApp to stay in touch and it is how I get my fix of grandkids pictures & video.
The only thing I do on FB & IG is post pictures of food.
re: #368 BeachDem
Apparently that “Conservative Ant” guy is a podcaster and Tiktok influencer. He’s also gay.
re: #369 nines09
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re: #371 jaunte
Looks like a National Wrasslin’ League flyer.
And every single weirdo on it would cause me to cross the street to avoid contact.
Sinema seems to have lost her smug, vapid smile. https://t.co/D8H3MsvyAk
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 4, 2021
re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #373 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently that “Conservative Ant” guy is a podcaster and Tiktok influencer. He’s also gay.
And Kim Klasik sued Candace Owens for defamation (talk about a contest where you hope nobody wins.)
re: #368 BeachDem
The evergreen Petigru quote is alive and well.
Nothing much going on with Murdaugh—the media is killing time with stories about the attorneys.
They had 6 pages in People this week, with lots of photos. So we’ve covered the “previously on…” and everyone (including new viewers) will be ready for the season premiere.
re: #338 Teukka
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— William A Lewis (@WilliamALewis4) October 4, 2021
“WE NEED TO TOTALLY OVERTURN THE ELECTION AND TURN IT OVER TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!!!”
Brought to you by the party who continues to insist that the Russia investigation was “sour grapes.”
New: A Texas board recommended George Floyd receive a posthumous full pardon for a 2004 drug charge in Houston. A public defender representing Floyd said the arresting officer fabricated evidence.
Gov. Greg Abbott must now approve or reject the decision. https://t.co/1xSbiVasis— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) October 4, 2021
The REAL @AndrewYang “… because as a Rich Dude™️ I secretly prefer a Trump dictatorship, the end of American Democracy & ridding us of pesky liberal voters who refuse to see my benevolent techno genius!” #Bye https://t.co/iedkJYqjsO
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) October 4, 2021
Never forget that Andrew Yang’s origin story is bullshit. He wasn’t a notable entrepreneur. He isn’t rich. And he didn’t come close to delivering on his promises at a non-profit.
He’s a goofball, attention-seeking asshat. https://t.co/152CxjkgZa— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) October 4, 2021
“…Before moving to Minneapolis, Floyd lived for most of his life in Houston. There, in 2004, he was arrested by former Houston police officer Gerald Goines for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine. Goines has since been indicted for murder and other misconduct charges after he led a “no-knock” raid in 2019 that resulted in the death of Houston couple Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas. Prosecutors have accused Goines of lying to obtain the warrant for the raid.
As a result of the criminal investigation into Goines, his arrest cases were reviewed. More than 160 of Goines’ convictions have been dismissed.”
re: #384 TedStriker
Narrator: Abbott won’t…
Bingo. He won’t risk incurring the MAGA backlash that would happen if he did.
Faceplant is back here in Twinky Flats.
re: #381 Targetpractice
“WE NEED TO TOTALLY OVERTURN THE ELECTION AND TURN IT OVER TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!!!”
Brought to you by the party who continues to insist that the Russia investigation was “sour grapes.”
This shit is really just “Why the South must prevail” updated for the new era. Instead of WF Buckley’s tedious justification of racism, we have the conservative will to seize power without any pretense to the contrary.
re: #368 BeachDem
The evergreen Petigru quote is alive and well.
Nothing much going on with Murdaugh—the media is killing time with stories about the attorneys.
But the Myrtle Beach mayoral race is heating up, with one of Trump’s whackadoo photographers (Gene Ho) running. And a BIG event (which I will be sure to miss) coming up.
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I wonder why Baked Alaska isn’t showing up at the Myrtle Beach Party? He’s showing up everywhere else!
The mayor’s office says its launched an investigation after @georgejoseph94 and I found names matching multiple NYPD officers and city officials in what appears to be a hacked Oath Keeper membership list. https://t.co/hZ6RQtJd68
— Micah Edgar Allen Poewinger 🦉 (@MicahLoewinger) September 30, 2021
If your social media team hasn’t responded to @Twitter ‘s tweet what have they been doing all day? pic.twitter.com/lzxZgpzPBK
— Jevvie, M.A. (@EvitorialPage) October 4, 2021
re: #384 TedStriker
Narrator: Abbott won’t…
Not only will he refuse, he’ll argue that whatever was found out about the corrupt SOB who conducted the investigation, the ruling was handed down “in good faith” and thus he must respect it.
re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
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From a one trick pony to a horse’s ass—Andrew Yang.
(That’s my story and I’m sticking to it)
while Trump was president
thank you @wsj for reminding us of his colossal failures… https://t.co/DI4ARID7dQ— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 4, 2021
more here; https://t.co/r7KnpHxwXf
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) October 4, 2021
re: #395 Dread Pirate Ron
“With police under attack”
I mean, it’s not like we had a devastating virus going around that tanked the economy and made everything fucking crazy or anything…
re: #395 Dread Pirate Ron
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That last bit of the first tweet says it all:
With police under political attack, mayhem surged in U.S. cities.
The narrative the “liberal media” want to sell now is that the sole reason the murder rate spiked is because BLM/Antifa protests left cops “afraid” to do their jobs.
re: #397 Targetpractice
That last bit of the first tweet says it all:
The narrative the “liberal media” want to sell now is that the sole reason the murder rate spiked is because BLM/Antifa protests left cops “afraid” to do their jobs.
The mainstream media is fucking awful, but they don’t deserve the blame for this. This shit about the spike in murder rate is from the WSJ opinion side, which has always been wingnut central (even long before the Murdoch acquisition of the WSJ).
re: #398 EPR-radar
The mainstream media is fucking awful, but they don’t deserve the blame for this. This shit about the spike in murder rate is from the WSJ opinion side, which has always been wingnut central (even long before the Murdoch acquisition of the WSJ).
*squints* Well fuck, you’re right, I got my acronyms mixed up there and thought I was looking at a WAPO article.
Yeah, the WSJ editorial board were bad before the Murdoch acquisition, these days they make The Sun look liberal.
Peter Thiel of Facebook’s puppet doesn’t know we can see Peter Thiel of Facebook https://t.co/NoolBpyCUE
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 4, 2021
I found it, sir. https://t.co/GMGf5xdG4y pic.twitter.com/ndnnto8RTi
— General Strike (@Deathtoad007) October 4, 2021
Go home, you’re drunk. https://t.co/s26fIIaBa6
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) October 4, 2021
re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth
Something something Colin Kaepernick.
If Facebook’s monopolistic behavior was checked back when it should’ve been (perhaps around the time it started acquiring competitors like Instagram), the continents of people who depend on WhatsApp & IG for either communication or commerce would be fine right now. Break them up.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 4, 2021
I’m no conspiracy theorist but damn if the timing of todays Facebook outage wasn’t convenient as fuck for them because of the Australia 60 minutes thing.
Fucking lucky coincidence if that’s all it was.
I see Politico is trying to stir the pot wrt. the lawyer who resigned from this State dept. advisory position. He resigned because of the Administrations policy of dealing with migrants at the border.
Morally I agree that the US ought not turn away people seeking asylum.
But, I also think the real issue is that of failed states.
Haiti is a failed state.
We can’t go on pretending that our neighbors who are failing are just not there.
Trump failed because he is malicious and incompetent.
Biden is not malicious and he has a degree of competence. But politically he knows that the easiest and fastest way for the GOP to regain control is fear-mongering over immigrants.
Still, Haiti needs to be addressed. Long standing issues in Guatemala and El Salvador need to be addressed.
We can’t pretend that when states fail elsewhere that we an escape the consequences.
This goes for Syria too.
re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth
Tim has no talent, even after God intervened.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) October 4, 2021
re: #404 Rightwingconspirator
My guess is that WhatsApp is doing fine right now. And assuming that this was truly an accident due to a mistake — and in IT those happen all the time but usually not so publicly, FB will be revising its processes to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence. Recall it was software glitches that undermined the release of the ACA web site and led directly to the GOP takeover of Congress in 2010. FB will be rethinking their operations to prevent other similar outages.
re: #409 Hecuba’s daughter
My guess is that WhatsApp is doing fine right now. And assuming that this was truly an accident due to a mistake — and in IT those happen all the time but usually not so publicly, FB will be revising its processes to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence. Recall it was software glitches that undermined the release of the ACA web site and led directly to the GOP takeover of Congress in 2010. FB will be rethinking their operations to prevent other similar outages.
It takes someone with pretty high credentials to access, let alone delete, global routing tables. That just isn’t done. In fact, one shouldn’t be able to do that if the routes are active.
Catching up:
On voter fraud letters: work through channels and prove how the President portion was a fraud but not lower offices and measures, or STFU. Pipe dream, I know but I tell this to individuals I know who spout this very rhetoric. Lots of magical processes
On coincidence: yesterday my kid borrowed my older CrV and now the sensor is broken on rear door. He says coincidence, I say there are very few coincidences in life
On Supreme Court: their recent speechifying somehow reminds me of when Bill Cosby was hyping the New Coke as the next great drink
On Texas: for every jerk thing government does, I remind myself many fine people and institutions reside there. See Texas photo.
re: #409 Hecuba’s daughter
My guess is that WhatsApp is doing fine right now. And assuming that this was truly an accident due to a mistake — and in IT those happen all the time but usually not so publicly, FB will be revising its processes to reduce the likelihood of a recurrence. Recall it was software glitches that undermined the release of the ACA web site and led directly to the GOP takeover of Congress in 2010. FB will be rethinking their operations to prevent other similar outages.
um… ACA’s website launch was 2013.
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Same here, given the PA sedition caucus.
Completely not surprised to see Doug “I was there and sent buses full of people to the insurrection but left before the rioting” Mastriano.
Or Stephanie “Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus” Borowitz.
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