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Second this, with my DigitalOcean VPS's. DigitalOcean posted an incident report yesterday. They say "global networking issues" were caused by a "major provider", but unfortunately there isn't much more detail than that [1]. [1] https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/qvdcj7yx4030
That was due to google cloud networking issues.
ie "Image may contain: a dog, sunglasses"
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So the options are: 1) a secret cyber-war is going on... 2) Some entity is installing new spying slurps 3) An (critical) IX that we werent aware of is having major issues... and we dont know who to blame on that one...
4) People love to find patterns where none exist
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.
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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 !
Looks like Facebook image store is having issues. Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp use the same image store, so all the services are affected.
One interesting thing I've noticed from this (not sure if this is just my experience or if others noticed as well) but none of the ads seem to be impacted by this. Certainly makes me wonder if those are on a more prioritized and entirely separate infra and SLA that is designed to be more resilient and highly available.
Our local transit system installed video boards showing arrival times for the next trains. It was paid for and operated by an advertising company who in return were able to run ads on their video boards. The functionality for arrival times rarely worked but the displaying of ads never failed. It was obvious where the company's priorities were at.
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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.
If you frequent small (generally Asian) restaurants, it's quite common to see signs saying they only accept cash in Vancouver. Otherwise, if they take credit, they may attempt to incentivize paying with cash via discounts.
But any business with any sort of margin (as in, I’m not buying grapes for 99¢/pound) takes contactless payments. My gym would look at me like I’m crazy if I tried to pay with cash, and Billy Bishop airport has been cash-free for years.