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Damn it! It was such a relief they were down, it's like the world actually existed and was in a a calm peace.

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1 hour ago, Arika S said:

I wonder how many people called the police/emergency number in their country.

The sad thing is I know this has such an element of truth to it.

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5 minutes ago, wamred said:

Yeah, this took a while lol. How much do you think they lost?

mark Zuckerberg lost 7 billion.

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2 minutes ago, adarw said:

mark Zuckerberg lost 7 billion.

Only virtually and it's temporary. It's all just stock valuation not actually money/currency and you can sure bet the FB stock price will go back up to where it was in a short amount of time.

 

Basically Zuck lost 7 billion down the couch and is just rummaging around to find it again.

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1 minute ago, leadeater said:

Only virtually and it's temporary. It's all just stock valuation not actually money/currency and you can sure bet the FB stock price will go back up to where it was in a short amount of time.

 

Basically Zuck lost 7 billion down the couch and is just rummaging around to find it again.

Ah that makes sense.

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Facebook uses php. Bad things happen to php users. Consider this as a warning 🙂/s

 

anywhoozle, somebody(probably soon to be fired) messed up their border gateway config, and broke not only the oculus, fb, whatsapp and instagram servers, but also took down facebook's internal network, and locked up their biometrics, doors, parking, version control(git?) etc systems. It lasted this long, because to fix the issue, they needed to reset the network and required a network engineer to manually fix it.

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8 minutes ago, StDragon said:

Outlook.com on the fritz.

Mobile Outlook is dead. The web version for PC still works.

 

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Nope, Outlook works fine again for mobile.

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10 hours ago, jagdtigger said:

Meh, it wouldnt be a huge loss if it doesnt came back....

Agreed. Facebook is such cancer on society.

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13 minutes ago, Beskamir said:

Agreed. Facebook is such cancer on society.

Along with twitter, reddit, whatsapp, instagram...   Basically most of what the internet is used for.

 

Hell even imgur is hell hole full of petulant ignorance at times.

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6 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Along with twitter, reddit, whatsapp, instagram...   Basically most of what the internet is used for.

 

Hell even imgur is hell hole full of petulant ignorance at times.

Imgur was fun until the Marketing companies figured out how to manipulate the algo there. It's been Astroturf ever since.

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4 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Imgur was fun until the Marketing companies figured out how to manipulate the algo there. It's been Astroturf ever since.

 

On the rare occasion I go back there I usually find about 10% of the content worth looking at, once the content moves past meme kittens or dodgy drivers the comments go full retard in a matter of seconds.

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1 hour ago, mr moose said:

Along with twitter, reddit, whatsapp, instagram...   Basically most of what the internet is used for.

 

Hell even imgur is hell hole full of petulant ignorance at times.

Two of those are parts of facebook but yes I agree, social media is for the most part a cancer on society.

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Based on this:

I havent found any article that backs it up, but a theory I have is that problems with home internet at the same time as this is because of this. That the Internet Providers DNS resolver got overloaded.

At least, the problems was worked for few sec but slow then didn't at all for a while and repeat, something that could be a sign of overloading.

 

Just a theory tho. Didn't think of trying to change DNS resolver, but didn't feel I needed to fix it yesterday either so...

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1 hour ago, Mihle said:
 

I havent found any article that backs it up, but a theory I have is that problems with home internet at the same time as this is because of this. That the Internet Providers DNS resolver got overloaded.

Not quite , most DNS servers were working just fine, apparently  Facebook messed up it’s  networking/routing infrastructure (BGP ) thus the rest of the internet couldn’t connect to its servers . Here’s cloudfare ‘s explanation : https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

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1 minute ago, sir_A4D_ said:

Not quite , most DNS servers were working just fine, apparently  Facebook messed up it’s  networking/routing infrastructure (BGP ) thus the rest of the internet couldn’t connect to its servers . Here’s cloudfare ‘s explanation : https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

Yep but this meant seventy billion phones, tablets, tv sticks, alexas and any other device that has permanent FB intergration support were all constantly trying to ping FBs servers which put a huge strain on the rest of the internet (because we all know a FB enabled device cannot go more that 10 seconds with sending something back to zucks personal email).

 

It was a DDOS, just not one done by any kind of activist group.

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1 hour ago, Beskamir said:

Two of those are parts of facebook but yes I agree, social media is for the most part a cancer on society.

I was just reeling therm off the top of my head, I'd also add linkedin to that list,  It's not supposed to be social media but it's a cluster fuck of pseudo professionals who all seem to to use it as a dick measuring tool.

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4 hours ago, mr moose said:

 

On the rare occasion I go back there I usually find about 10% of the content worth looking at, once the content moves past meme kittens or dodgy drivers the comments go full retard in a matter of seconds.

Imgur became the YT Comments section in a real hurry: 1/2 of them aren't real people. But, before that, Imgur was straight up one of the better Internet experiences. Was the right collection of Picture and short animation memetic content. And I'll never look at Batman in the rain again, ever the same.

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It's always so fascinating to me that you can shut down such a huge network with a click of a button.

Reminded me of when he activated Skynet by just clicking "Y":

(Except here he turned it on instead of shutting it down)

 

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3 hours ago, WindirBear said:

A lot of Facebook hate going around here.

What do you expect? Facebook is one of the worst social media platforms out there for a whole lot of reasons. 

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