Sets relationship to "It's complicated
Loving the irony of a social network having networking problems.
Business Insider, so probably bullshit. But fucking hilarious if true.
www.businessinsider.com/facebook-employees-no-access-conference-rooms-because-of-outage-2021-10?r=US&IR=T
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Looks like someone/something borked the BGP
www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/security/glossary/what-is-bgp/
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 22:14,
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Cloudfare are killing it with these blog posts:
blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/
That's a bloody good write-up.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 23:50,
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imgur.com/gallery/KAerBIr
Some juicy stuff in there.
"connection to the outside world is down" "remote access to those tools doesn't exist anymore" "gain physical access" "do all configuration locally"
They've got to hope there's still communication between the datacentres, or they're going to have to physically visit every one.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 22:29,
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Personally i smell Humbug of a grand scale
There is something about the night about this outage and Political timing.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 22:38,
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Ah shit, without Facebook, all the conspiracies are leaking...
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 22:51,
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Wouldn't it be wonderful
If Zuck had a big red killswitch that would instantly disable Facebook, all its related services and wipe all existing backups, effectively removing all trace of it from the Web forever?
I know it's technically impossible not only due to the legal ramifications, the fact that it's not just Zuckerberg in control anymore, OSS and all that other Jazz. But wouldn't it be lovely seeing the chaos that ensues? For about a month anyway, which is about how long it takes people to realise that Facebook is a load of shit that they never really needed anyway.
Edit: On that note - did anyone else see this? Robozuck needs to work on his delivery. Assuming the menacing tone wasn't intentional.
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Political timing?
A DOS attack seems more likely than someone deliberately pulling the plug to remind people how much they rely on Facebook.
A coincidence seems more likely than either.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 5 Oct 2021, 4:49,
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Apparently
a robot Zuckerberg has sex with every Monday morning posted some photos so they had to shut down the metaverse
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 4 Oct 2021, 22:50,
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Only Monday!
How are every other days of the week so fucked then?
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Tue 5 Oct 2021, 0:31,
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