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Post by spondyl »

erik_seaberg wrote: post #167
lovedswain wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots And it was a full moon - 6 shots Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no lo…

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.” My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

I was going to link a related comment but you're actually the author of it!

Here it is anyway: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22316230

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by ben509 »

wqsz7xn wrote: post #120

Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.

Social media is a square wheel. Sure, it sort of goes and if you know no alternative, it might be better than no wheel at all. But there's no good way to use it because it's fundamentally flawed.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by erik_seaberg »

lovedswain wrote: post #171
erik_seaberg wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.” My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

In a similar vein, the alternative option for 7 was a cyclical dependency introduced since last restart

I heard a story that Google SRE had to up a sacrificial Bigtable in any new zone before they could up enough services to finally up a real Bigtable for the zone.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by neura »

erik_seaberg wrote: post #167
lovedswain wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots And it was a full moon - 6 shots Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no lo…

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.” My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

Please, please tell me this is a true story. It's amazing.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dylan604 »

reaperducer wrote: post #179
erik_seaberg wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

5 is often broken down to “rain fade” and “backhoe fade.” My favorite can’t-restart story is “the shared password manager is down, we need a hardware crypto key to restart it, the key is in the safe, and the safe’s combination was in the shared password manager.”

Coincidentally, I'm in the same predicament with Facebook, itself. I can't log in to Facebook because Facebook wants approval from the Duo Mobile 2FA app. The 2FA app won't approve the login because it wants a code that can only be obtained by logging in to Facebook. Solution: Deleted both Duo Mobile and Facebook apps. Moved on with my life.

isn't that like throwin the baby out with the bath water? i've never had problems with duo mobile, but then i don't use FB so i've never seen how it behaves with FB. so dump FB, but why dump duo mobile?

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by grishka »

ben509 wrote: post #177
mullingitover wrote: post #169

We're obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it's funny, but let's not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as "Foods with threatening auras" and "Animals in predicaments." I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.

Don't forget "The Same Photo of a Gravel Pile Every Day." Almost makes the decline of Western civilization worth it.

Is there a group that saves and reuploads the same photo every day, compressing it into oblivion?

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dylan604 »

rc202402 wrote: post #42
sgt wrote: post #6

I hope they get FB back up and running within the end of the year, otherwise I may actually start missing it.

I like how you're nostalgic, yet hate fb at the same time.

most relationships that come to a bitter end are like this. you want to remember the good times, but the reasons you are breaking up always come front of mind.
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