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Post by albatros1313 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #286
albatros1313 wrote: post #238

I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.

Same reason we're also not talking about the ten million non-coincidences that didn't seem to happen today. It's a kind of survivorship bias that coincidences seem like they mean something. Or you could imagine it as this: your animal brain has evolved to notice patterns. Seeing coincidences like this is akin to seeing faces in the stars. The challenge of evolved being is to override those impulses when they're not l…

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Post by Shrezzing »

notsahil wrote: post #198

Discord is having issues too! https://discordstatus.com/

I think the downtime associated with other services could just be people choosing alternative sites for their social media time.

Facebook + Insta makes up a huge share of the social media market, and when they go offline, it'd be natural for their competitors to receive large sudden upticks in trafic they're not immediately prepared for on a Tuesday morning.

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Post by dmk »

Google login also seems to be having issues, multiple people reported to me that the login isn’t working and they’ve been logged out of their Google accounts.

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Post by jgehrcke »

Might be related to this event?

> The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea.

https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp

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Post by ykonstant »

beejiu wrote: post #242
issafram wrote: post #97

Seems like somehow YouTube is also affected? I'm starting to think that this is an attack of sorts and not Meta specific

Given Facebook is like 10% of total Internet bandwidth, I'm curious what happens when all that traffic suddenly gets "redirected" elsewhere by people going to other sites and platforms. Could YouTube cope with a sudden 10% uptick in streams for example? Edit: YouTube seems now to be defaulting to a lower bitrate, leading me to guess it's a demand issue.

That seems to be the actual case. Most of the "usual web" is struggling. Even HN is struggling for me.

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Post by samaritano »

kortex wrote: post #12
jonnycomputer wrote: post #6

It logged me out and told me that my credentials were incorrect; I thought my credentials had been stolen, so I'm kinda personally glad that it seems to be happening to a lot of other people too. I know that's a bit selfish, but :shrug:

Same same. I went through the password reset flow (I was overdue anyways), it never sent anything to my SMS, so I did it again with email, reset the password and went to log in with the new password, "Incorrect password" error. Old password, also incorrect. Didn't help that I had just posted a lukewarm spicy take on how linguistic prescriptivism is BS. All the while the website felt like it was unstable, hard to desc…

downdetector reports has gone down but to me is still bugged out, been catching a livestream on youtube all along though, meta stocks are back up from the dip so I take it some regions are restored to normality

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Post by lazide »

dv_dt wrote: post #214

Well, I've been spitballing 1-3 years for effects of layoffs to affect company performance, so this timeframe is about right

Yup. That it’s related to the elections is also predictable, due to stress.

Made worse in big corp due to affirmative action + lack of enough qualified candidates meeting diversity criteria.

Which is inevitable when you have coarse criteria applied to such a large industry this way so quickly, as it takes decades for anyone to be qualified for the senior roles, and many years for junior/mid level, even if there were no pipeline issues, which there are.

And unqualified folks in leadership, and mid level == stupid mistakes.

And, with the DOL rules, the company can’t even pay people differently, so no bueno even giving the high performers keeping things afloat better bonuses - unless they happen to meet the diversity criteria and it makes the stats look good.

Which it’s already hard enough to do properly when there is only one dimension, and impossible when there are 2-3.

so the bigger the company, the faster it has to cut its own throat.

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