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WhatsApp Down in Some Regions
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. Quick, SMS everyone a Signal link!
Yeah, lets replace this centralized service that goes down sometimes with another centralized service that hasn't started going down sometimes yet! OR, get people on Matrix or similar so we can actually stop jumping ship when our centralized dear service stops acting in our best interest.
Ha, I hear you. Also a fan of Matrix, but it's so not mainstream usable yet. Tried to get non tech friends on there yet?
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#23>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de) Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset
Eh, what's the problem really? A) we who regularly use those characters already know how it looks when websites don't encode stuff properly B) the crowd on HN most likely know what it means anyways, and can ignore it without loosing their mind
>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de)
>whats the problem
just no
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#24its down in germany too
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#25Down in Brazil too together with instagram and facebook. More food for conspiracy theorists...
You mean all products owned by the same company, most likely hosted in the same data centers and with the same infra?
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#26Phew, it's not just me. Beyond me why more of these big tech companies can't build more redundancies for their services.
It's not just about adding redundancies. Redundancies don't protect you against bugs, and they're itself very complex, so they introduce more opportunity for errors. Even with best redundancy, you'll have incidents from time to time.
It doesn't help either that Facebook made three separate services that should have nothing to do with each other, talk to each other and all route their traffic through the same infrastructure.
What they did was purposefully remove redundancy they had, in order to be able to track people more (in order to profit more) and possibly scale easier. Doing nothing would have been easier but yet they still did it.
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#27>(xn--allestrungen-9ib.de) Jesus Christ HN, can you please use a sane charset
I think that's what domains get translated into when you're using a foreign language for the URL. It's to prevent IDN homograph attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack which basically tries to impersonate a legitimate URL with a fake unicode character.
I've always thought that there must be a better solution than to force all of the non-English speaking world to conform to our views though.
Chrome somehow solves it. If you visit the actual URL, it's allestörungen.de, which is quite nice. I wonder what the protocol is of when to decode the URL.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, lets replace this centralized service that goes down sometimes with another centralized service that hasn't started going down sometimes yet! OR, get people on Matrix or similar so we can actually stop jumping ship when our centralized dear service stops acting in our best interest.
Ha, I hear you. Also a fan of Matrix, but it's so not mainstream usable yet. Tried to get non tech friends on there yet?
What you mean "friends"?
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