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Post by drnick1 »

johnfn wrote: post #78
IncandescentGas wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telco infra runs on autopilot?

This is really taking the whole "I could build Dropbox in a weekend" style comments to a new level.

It's well known that big tech companies are overstaffed. You probably can't build Dropbox in a weekend starting from scratch, but a smaller scale cloud-based storage solution can be deployed very quickly if you start from existing open source components. And a small team of experienced web devs can certainly build a cloud storage thing in a matter of weeks from scratch too.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by devilbunny »

Meekro wrote: post #108
venturecruelty wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a dead empire, sufficiently advanced rot is indistinguishable from malice.

Infrastructure in general seems worse than 20 years ago. Our talent for black-bagging dictators has never been stronger, though!

20 years ago much less of the infrastructure of everyday life depended on an always-on network connection. Smartphones in particular were a relatively niche product. I didn’t even have a cell phone (and not because I was too young), much less expect it to work all the time.

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Post by Meekro »

apitman wrote: post #110

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…

I'm considering switching to US Mobile from Verizon-- it seems way cheaper, and you can still use the Verizon network. Any downsides I should know?

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Post by SoftTalker »

syntaxing wrote: post #25
Scubabear68 wrote: post #15

Our Comcast DNS keeps going in and out too, not clear if it is related or knock on effect or something else entirely.

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.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by thesuitonym »

IncandescentGas wrote: post #72
Nextgrid wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you’ve got 100k people to run something that should run essentially on autopilot, you’ve got much deeper problems where merely laying off selected chunks of people will no longer help. The whole company is rotten and the only way is to start from scratch and not make the mistakes that led you to accumulate 100k people. I can't even begin to imagine what those 100k people actually do. For starters, none of the telc…

Telco infra runs on autopilot?

It does if you have no idea how it works.

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Post by JacoboJacobi »

mikeweiss wrote: post #50

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.

Everyone is always so negative about these outages, but if we look at the details we see it was a win as long as they maintain 85% up time.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by chankstein38 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #9

The US would never purposefully cut of it's own communications, right? What would be the tells if that would have happened? And what could the average citizen do to be able to communicate regardless? Might be useful to always have that knowledge around, even if it isn't a personal threat to yourself today.

Get into Meshtastic or Meshcore! (So far I prefer meshtastic)

It's a citizen-run mesh network that allows text communication. It's not perfect and not 100% reliable (signal and hops limit delivery guarantees) but it's better than 0 ways to communicate in this kind of event!

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Post by noAnswer »

syntaxing wrote: post #109
relium wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had edge delivery issues when I didn't use my ISP's DNS, especially from Apple. Not exactly sure of the mechanism, but downloading Xcode would take 2 hours instead of 10 minutes.

That’s really weird that’s the case. DNS simply resolves “google.com” to an IP address (8.8.8.8 or something). Shouldn’t impact anything download related. I’m pretty sure DNS isn’t used for geolocating either

I wanted to correct you but than I stopped myself because I'm not sure if you meant that sarcastically. Because with a /s at the end your post makes sense.

Re: Verizon outages reported across U.S.

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Post by mmooss »

mikeweiss wrote: post #50

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.

15% seems like the magic number. It seems like many corporations layoff approximately that fraction of their workforce; it's hard to believe it's coincidence.
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