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Instagram works for me on my iPhone, but the comments are all missing. I kind of like it that way.
I’ve seen many systems go down over the last few days worldwide. Aside from the possibility of a mega-DDoS attack (which Facebook denies), all of these organizations have fairly diverse tech stacks to my knowledge. Google’s issue (supposedly) had to do with their Blobstore API, we don’t know what happened with Facebook, and many other, smaller services have had issues as well, including three intranet services at my…
The best explanation is coincidence, I think. I have direct knowledge of two of the incidents in the past few weeks, and they have completely unrelated causes. Sometimes you just get unlucky!
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Private post Morten: The NSA middleware we are required to run (that took time to deploy to each of our social partners) is breaking something so let’s revert. Public post Mortem: Entirely believable technical cause.
I imagine the NSA uses an optical tap device. These devices create identical copies and require no power or management.
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it really goes to show how different all of our feeds are based on who we are friends with (and of those, who we interact with the most). Anecdotally, I have 3 people who will share any "conservative" attack meme (at this point, I don't even know if it counts as conservative so much as just outright attacking Democrats. Sometimes it reads more like an attack for the sake of attacking than a statement of belief in som…
I've got a few people in my feed who just dump on the right no matter what. I've fact checked them a little bit. Again it's about a 2-1 for me fact checking my right leaning and left leaning friends (typically older). But I keep all of them on there just to have an ear to the ground.
I think the real bummer is when you present the actual video of what the person says, and the response is essentially “yeah? Well, they still suck” or something in that ballpark. I have zero issue with someone not liking another person’s views, but a lot of it is just outright libel.
I got my github two factor auth SMS two hours late. Fortunately it was just my old laptop. I wonder if it was related. Good reminder to set up an authenticator app on my new phone so I don’t have to rely on SMS!
Which you should do anyway because relying on SMS is only slightly more secure than not having 2FA enabled at all...
Instagram works for me on my iPhone, but the comments are all missing. I kind of like it that way.
You're already logged in so it's just going to show you old content. I'd be surprised if your able to post anything, or if any "like" you give during the outage is saved. Same thing is happening with both Instagram and FB apps on Android for me.
Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?
I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.