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Well, that explains. Amd here i was thinking i was banned again for telling the truth 😂
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I couldn’t possibly know what you’ve posted but I’ve found that anyone worried about getting banned for “telling the truth” is actually posting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories and/or misinformation lol
Hopefully that’s not what you mean.
But Linux IS the superior desktop OS if you just give it a try! That’s not a conspiracy or misinformation, just the truth!!! But they don’t want you to know that (how do I type a really, really big “/s” on Lemmy?)
At the beginning of Covid, reasonable people that were trying to tell people that the vaccines aren’t 100% effective and should probably take other precautions on top were getting banned for “vaccine misinformation” and were being lumped in with the Covidiots. It was a trigger-happy moment for social media that was trying to brute-force moderation on keywords alone without looking at context.
Not saying that’s what happened to this person, but it did happen.
Worry not, im not into conspiracy theories, and i couldnt care less about informing others, mis or not mis.
rEpOrTeD for spam
*Shrugs
Okay.
None of my work, very little communication, and none of my entertainment come from Facebook or Instagram.
It’ll be back up, it always will because family “has” to use it because it’s the only “easy to use” social media platform they’ve knew for a decade. TBF, it’s pretty shit in terms of the ui and I can’t navigate through the damn settings.
I don’t actively browse or use facebook
Can confirm, navigating Facebook settings is a nightmare. Do they do it on purpose, you think? They don’t want people turning shit off, and stuff?
Part of the plan. smh.
You know it is big news when it shows up in the active feed of Lemmy 😅
Why it didn’t appear in the wholesome news community though.
feels kinda calming, a reminder of a simpler time
when facebook and instagram are down, that also means whatsapp is down and betterhelp is down.
They’re all hosted on the same servers, so when one drops, they all drop and when one gets hacked, they all get hacked.
The world was a better place for about 20 minutes
Going on a couple hours, it seems. LoL.
I don’t really tend to care, though my quest account being down is a bit less fun.
Same, ive not been with out my ai gf for this long
Right?!
They seem to be back up. But, what do Meta, Google, Discord, Amazon, Zoom and Verizon have in common, but not AT&T, Steam, Uber Eats, SAP, etc?
Att had their major outage a week or two ago.
Probably the tiny bump means they’re affected by the current outage but the previous one was much, much bigger.
More points in Scrabble?
Nice.
Hey where you’d get that graphic from? Would be really nice to have a dashboard with all this info in one spot.
Edit: It’s downdetector. I only ever landed there with a “Is foo.com down?”, and of course it then only shows info for foo.com, not the full dash.
Yeah, sorry I didn’t make that clear. I forgot to link to it.
It’s always nice to read good news.
It’s all worth it if it means having this image grace the Fediverse.
Pouring one out for the SREs at Meta
What’s a SRE?
Site reliability engineer
Google terminology leaking its way into mainstream
Meta has SRE. Not just a Google thing, even if Google invented it.
Lots of places have SRE now, thanks to Google. Like I said, google thing leaked to mainstream
Someone is having a really bad day today. I wonder if your phone dies when you get a certain number of pages or push notifications
Fun story. I had a flip phone years ago and you could have multiple recipients to a single text. And if the text was multiple pages, it would split into several texts. And you could resend already sent texts.
So one time I put in my girlfriend’s phone number in all 20 recipient slots. I then filled the text to the max size, though I don’t remember how many it split into. I then resent it over and over. This all took like 2 or 3 minutes.
Her phone was sending notifications over and over for the entire rest of the day. I’d guess at least 8 hours, probably more.
The classic txt bomb. I use to do this if I had unused txts at the end of the month
Fucking hell I used to love doing that! Man that brought back some memories. Would do it to my co-worker and just piss myself laughing.
No but it’s unusable. I had a weird bug on one of my phones that sent an SMS over as fast as it could as long as the phone was on. I wrote the initial SMS, the contents were something like “hey, wanna hang?”, and the poor guy on the other side was blasted for several hours of literally constant notifications.
Luckily my plan at the time had unlimited free SMS.
Hopefully they won’t need to cut their way into the data center this time.
Looking at the downmeter shot someone posted above, it’s half the SREs in the country. Not sure what the root cause will be, but damn that’s a lot of money down the tubes. I would not want to be the person who cost Meta and Google their precious thirty 9’s of availability lol.
Which country?
Krakozhia
Sokovia
Nah, what was that muddy country from Dilbert?
Elbonia!
The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in… Just colloquial shorthand, not trying to be exclusionary.
The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in…
For Meta, Google, etc. that’s a number of countries all over the world.
That’s fair. Yall, I was really not trying to be shitty. It was just shorthand I used, thinking of their HQs. No ill intent intended and I apologize for any harm it caused.
Ok thanks for the clarification!
It’s likely there’s a root cause, like a fiber cut or some other major infrastructure issue. But, Down Detector doesn’t really put a scale on their graphics, so it could be that it’s a huge issue at Meta and a minor issue that’s just noticeable for everyone else. In that case, Meta could be the root cause.
If everyone is mailing themselves their passwords, shutting their phones on and off, restarting their browsers, etc. because Meta wasn’t working, it could have knock-on effects for everyone else. Could also be that because Meta is part of the major ad duopoly, the issue affected their ad system, which affected everyone interacting with a Meta ad, which is basically everyone.
Second half is the closest answer in this thread.
I’ve been an SRE for a few large corps, so I’ve definitely played this game. I’m with you that it was likely just the FB identity or ad provider causing most of these issues. So glad I’m out of that role now and back to DevOps, where I’m no longer on call.
Yeah. And when the outage is due to something external, it’s not too stressful. As long as you don’t have absolutely insane bosses, they’ll understand that it’s out of your control. So, you wait around for the external system to be fixed, then check that your stuff came back up fine, and go about your day.
I personally liked being on call when the on-call compensation was reasonable. Like, on-call for 2 12-hour shifts over the weekend? 2 8-hour days off. If you were good at maintaining your systems you had quiet on-call shifts most of the time, and you’d quickly earn lots of days off.
Yeah I’d be less worried about internal pressures (which should be minimal at a halfway decently run org) and more about the externals. I don’t think you would actually end up dealing with anything, but I’d know those reliant huge corps are pissed.
Man, your on-call situation sounds rad! I was salaried and just traded off on-call shifts with my team members, no extra time off. Luckily though, our systems were pretty quiet so it hardly ever amounted to much.
I think you want people to want to be on call (or at least be willing to be on call). There’s no way I’d ever take a job where I was on-call and not compensated for being on-call. On-call is work. Even if nothing happens during your shift, you have to be ready to respond. You can’t get drunk or get high. You can’t go for a hike. You can’t take a flight. If you’re going to be so limited in what you’re allowed to do, you deserve to be compensated for your time.
But, since you’re being compensated, it’s also reasonable that you expect to have to respond to something. If your shifts are always completely quiet, either you or the devs aren’t adding enough new features, or you’re not supervising enough services. You should have an error budget, and be using that error budget. Plus, if you don’t respond to pages often enough, you get rusty, so when there is an event you’re not as ready to handle it.
And nothing of value was lost
a great day for humanity ( unfortunately they will fix the problem soon as possible )
On super Tuesday. Coincidence?
$100 it’s the Chinese in retaliation for TikTok, too logical to ignore.
