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I’m somewhat surprised you’re still using your ISP’s DNS when there’s ton of better free or paid options.
Comcast doesn't let you change your DNS unless you run your own router. And they also rate limit you if you do.
Some server in NJ is down
For those who weren't aware: Verizon got a new CEO late last year and laid off 15% of the workforce (15,000 people). This included people working in network, IT and cyber security.
Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals. You do realize it'…
When Twitter did, its CEO may have slept at the office for weeks to make sure problems were resolved.
On the other hand, the Verizon CEO may be shopping for a new boat
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Is there a substantive connection? Like all the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. It's also ironic in the sense it implies the indignant people were so bad at their jobs they designed and built a system so fragile it would collapse without constant intervention from thousands of individuals. You do realize it'…
> the doom and gloom after the Twitter layoffs predicting the site would implode and go permanently offline "within a month" which...never happened. Many think Twitter has imploded, though it's online. > You do realize it's possible for an organization to be overstaffed? It's possible to be understaffed or appropriately staffed. Anything is possible!
It's also weird that some people here in the office on Verizon work fine, and others are on SOS. No correlation between phone versions or hardware that I could deduce. I also see the same on X: https://x.com/CPTholen/status/2011520566159982758 It came up for around 5-10 minutes at 15:00 EST, but is currently still down.
My wife and I are on the same Verizon family plan. One of us can be down while the other is fine, then 30 minutes later it's the opposite. It's been like that all day.
Anyone still using SMS for 2FA codes, here is your official notice to change that ASAP.
I got sniped away from Visible (Verizon MVNO) by US Mobile (multi-carrier MVNO) during a Black Friday sale. USM has an interesting thing where you can actually get a separate eSIM for each of the major carriers, and switch between them. I was curious so I signed up for all 3. It's been interesting to see how the signals vary from location to location, and at least a couple times I've been able to get significantly be…
Anyone still using SMS for 2FA codes, here is your official notice to change that ASAP.
Ironically I was planning to port my parents from Verizon to US Mobile to save them some money since they aren't financing any devices (there's a sale from them that ends today) and I've just done that on the first line and I now have service on that line with Verizon, where the remaining Verizon postpaid is still dead.
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This is unrealistic and seems to be biased by some kind of broad un-focused hostility. Yes, maybe they were overstaffed. But it's reasonable to suspect that leadership overcut, given the current climate and the number being 15,000. Your characterization of Twitter predictions relies on cherry-picking and ignores the actual impacts, and there's no evidence that the system goes down without "constant" intervention from…
>Your tone also implies that large, complex systems, even if designed well, don't normally require a lot of maintenance from many people. That's correct. In the case of Twitter, it was disclosed that many of their systems were running out of date EOL software, to the point of being a security liability, which raises the question: if the systems weren't being maintained, wtf were all those people doing? Taste-testing…
You do need too many people to work with that. Cutting them is asking for pain.