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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by dullgiulio »

smt88 wrote: post #37
kevlawrence wrote: post #36

This gives me a lot of confidence in their crypto currency.

1) Cryptocurrency ops are so vastly different from running a social website that I can't even think of any overlap. 2) I hate Facebook as a company, but as a builder/scaler of web apps for many years, I'm continually blown away by the speed and reliability of their website. Their operations are mind-blowing. The only comparable apps (in terms of scale) are Gmail and YouTube, and Gmail is simpler in certain key areas…

And Google Search. That's actually treated even more specially (compared to GMail and YT) inside Google and it has amazing reliability.

It would be interesting to know more details. I bet results are sometimes incomplete, but somehow Google manages to keep the system correct enough nobody notices a sudden quality drop.

I also understood Search has some special QoS at all levels: from the network to the scheduling of jobs...

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by mandelbrotwurst »

the-dude wrote: post #50
TuringNYC wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok, so unfriendly sovereign nations are trying to “hurt” us by making social media inaccessible? I’m half joking here, but perhaps we should all be out, about, and enjoying Independence Day in person rather than through our phone screens. (Yes I realize WhatsApp is a different segment, an important way people communicate.)

Afghani independence day? Or Iraqi independence day? Or did you mean Libian independence day? Syrian perhaps? In NL there is currently no independence day.

Parent is referring to the holiday tomorrow in the United States.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by chirau »

oceliker wrote: post #41
cronix wrote: post #16

One interesting thing I noticed is the ALT text that is displayed in place of the missing images. It shows how their image recognition is classifying everything. I guess a lot of my friends drink as a lot of the alt text was like "Image may contain: drink"

That's an accessibility feature and has been around for at least a couple of years, I believe.

I think OP is referring to the fact that the alt-text is now all ML generated. But yes, you are right, it's been around for a while

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by Fogest »

jeromegv wrote: post #66
thrusong wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say cash is used much less often in Canada than it used to be and most people just tap or swipe their Interac debit cards. Outages happen from time to time, usually during the mad Christmas shopping season, but life goes on.

Anecdata is always funny because I hardly know anyone that uses debit. Credit all the way.

In Canada though? Because in Canada it is definitely rare to see cash now except in boomers. Even a lot of places don't accept cash like gyms for even purchases like drinks or towels.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by partiallypro »

stevenhubertron wrote: post #12
the-dude wrote: post #6

I find the outages of the last few days a curious coincidence : Slack, Google, Cloudflare, Azure, now FB. edit : added Slack after @kache_ mentioned it, added Azure after stevehubertron mentioned it.

Add Azure to the list. Its routing was down for about 2 hours yesterday.

If I'm not mistaken virtually all of the ones in the list above were caused by networking problems. Given how much Chinese parts are in those interfaces, it does make you wonder.

It could also be just a really strange coincidence.

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by navaati »

aphextim wrote: post #45
jressey wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we should think about it more as the economic gain being experienced when people don't have these things to distract them.

There was an old joke from I believe Jerry Seinfeld which came out around the time the Y2K scare was in full force. I am probably going to butcher it as I am no comedian but it went something like: >All these people are freaking out about this whole Y2K thing. What are we going to do when the internet and computers all stop working?! I always respond with, "I know it will be horrible, it will be like living in the 80…

Damn, of course ! It's a Stranger Things marketing ploy !

Re: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp outages

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Post by ceejayoz »

anaidjm1 wrote: post #7

It's being atacked https://subefotos.com/ver/?263b876bdf09824089e4b118bb4da51bo...

These "attack maps" tend to just be a map of population centers cross-referenced against where it's daytime. They're worthless for actually assessing anything about potential threats.
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