Everyone Beware,
The “Black Hat Hackers” that have accomplished this massive Global hack represent a Clear and Present Danger, immediate and significant threat/danger to National Security, as well as all People’s personal and financial Security
Meta outage
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#652Everyone beware,
The “Black Hat Hackers” that have accomplished this massive Global hack represent a Clear and Present Danger, immediate and significant threat/danger to National Security, as well as all People’s personal and financial Security
Re: Meta outage
#653https://metastatus.com/ seems to be suffering a hug of death now...
Tangent to this but I saw a link to metastatus last week and thought it would be a status page for other services' status pages. This makes it sound like a useful thing now, too bad the name is taken.
Could call it metastasis, apropos when one outage cascades into others.
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I called out some comment for being racist a little earlier (yeah I know, just report and move on...) and figured they'd managed to pwn my account somehow. Good to know it's not just me.
Strictly speaking, just because there's an outage does not mean you're not pwn'ed.
In an "anything's possible" sense then yeah. But the fact that FB was not letting me login with the credentials I knew to be correct was directly attributed to a global outage, rather than a me-specific issue. Which I can now verify by checking the devices that are authorised to my account.
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#655Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If users log into your site with Facebook, then the login functionality of your site effectively is down when "Login with Facebook" is down. There are plenty of sites where "Login with Facebook" is a convenience but hardly the only way to log in. Reddit, for example, has "Login with Google" and "Login with Apple"; it would be highly misleading to claim "Reddit is down" if Google's OAuth flow was having an outage. >…
> Nothing in the API or OAuth flow would make that doable in an automatic fashion with this outage. It'd have to be something you put up manually as a banner after hearing of the outage. That is fair: if I choose to architect my site such that a user-critical feature goes down when a 3rd party service goes down, it behooves me to monitor the 3rd party service and do whatever necessary to properly inform users what's…
All that's fine, but totally misses the point.
Take a look at https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ ; scroll down to the comments.
"SSH and Dbconnect stopped on all of my EC2 instances. Anyone else?"
"I can't add a payment method"
The chart shows a big spike this morning, but there was no AWS outage, nor does Amazon use Facebook login.
Again, DownDetector can be a useful "is something unusual happening right now" signal, but it'd be a mistake to take its attribution at face value.
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"blah blah blah I don't like the company so all their engineers must be really stupid..."
"The metaverse is the future of this company! We've hired the very best brains in the world to make these 1998 era PS1 polygon avatars!" whole company goes offline
The Metaverse engineers and AI researchers don't actually run the infrastructure, but by all means, keep shitposting. It's so clever.
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> Isn't listening for spikes in complaints about outages a great way to detect them? When there's a major ISP outage, people report problems with all the major sites. When Facebook's down, people report problems with any site that has "Login with Facebook" as an option. It's almost never actually an outage impacting all of FAANG at once.
> It's almost never actually an outage impacting all of FAANG at once. Exactly. If you click through down detector when things are _up_ you'll see people still complaining that $site is down. Could be a local power outage or even a flaky connection in their own home. Down Detector is one of many signal sources and should have a "credibly" score associated with it that's proportional to the number of people complainin…
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#658I was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
Steam Index is great if you don't care about cords / needing a PC. Easy to do VRchat, IRacing, or even blade & sorcery game sessions for 3-4+ hours without any eye strain, headaches, motion sickness, or discomfort from the headset. It also fits over / around glasses Biggest reason not to IMO is of the rumors around an "index2".
Seconded, I think. I've been very happy with my Valve Index, but I don't know how it compares to newer headsets on the market.
More broadly, I find that Valve represents my interests far more than Facebook/Meta does. So I'd much rather send my money to Valve.
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#659Eesh I thought it was a hacking situation.
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#660Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's almost never actually an outage impacting all of FAANG at once. Exactly. If you click through down detector when things are _up_ you'll see people still complaining that $site is down. Could be a local power outage or even a flaky connection in their own home. Down Detector is one of many signal sources and should have a "credibly" score associated with it that's proportional to the number of people complainin…
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> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector?
Yes, absolutely. 100%.
> Even if there were doesn’t the outage graph give you exactly the information your asking be curated?
https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/
Was there an AWS outage this morning? The graph sure looks like it, but there wasn't.