Hard to imagine that four Red Sea cables being cut would do such a thing . . . considering BGP as being what it is, there are only so many alternative paths, no?
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The whole of Meta is down!
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Fresh air? Sunlight? Oh, the horror, please please please say it isn’t true
If the reports that the whole of FB, IG and MSGr are down are correct, it would seem that Meta has a single point of failure somewhere.
Wow! That should just not be possible.
EDIT:
Facebook and Instagram restored after outages
Parent company Meta blames "technical issue" for widespread problems with services.www.bbc.co.uk
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Check trash compactor 3263827, there may be 3 rebels & a Wookie in there.
And cue dramatic background music: "Leave the old man to me"
And cue dramatic background music: "Leave the old man to me"
In other words, they had a childhood like mine all of a sudden ;-) Great reference!
Do you have any idea how big a slice of the economy is generated by small businesses on those platforms?
I don’t like Meta either, but there is a price to be paid (by all of us) for shutting it down.
X is fecal matter. I don’t acknowledge them simply because I can go about life not using X.
I unfortunately use google with gmail because I like google fi for cell service and i use google voice.
I use Meta to stay in contact with family.
In the original version there wasn't
(Coruscant wasn't even a thing until the book Heir to the Empire in 1991)
I am the first one to dislike Meta and Zuckerberg, but it is undeniable that the various Meta platforms have an economic impact that runs in the many hundreds of Billions of USDs (to the wide global economy, not Meta’s accounts).
This has been estimated many times in different studies.
In fact, if you are to believe Meta’s own estimates, in the US alone they generate $415 Billion USD in economic activity, annually, and linked to 3.1 Million jobs.
I am no economist, but it seems to me that to shut something like this down from one minute to the next would have negative consequences for all of us.
As much as you dislike Meta (as I do), shutting it down overnight is probably not a good thing.
This has been estimated many times in different studies.
In fact, if you are to believe Meta’s own estimates, in the US alone they generate $415 Billion USD in economic activity, annually, and linked to 3.1 Million jobs.
I am no economist, but it seems to me that to shut something like this down from one minute to the next would have negative consequences for all of us.
As much as you dislike Meta (as I do), shutting it down overnight is probably not a good thing.
Thought it was just my internet connection as my IG kept saying it couldn’t load posts. Left it until just now and see it is working again. Was a needed break from social media for me, not going to lie.
Whenever I hear about Meta or X having any kind of downtime, I think of the final scene from Ready Player One where Wade explains that his group voted to turn off the Oasis for 2/3 days a week in order for people to actually interact AS people and not avatars.
I get that Meta and X generate billions of dollars, regardless of how shady their business dealings or methods are so from an economic stand point, not great if they're down for a few hours.
From a HUMANITY and MENTAL HEALTH stand point, the world could use a few more outages...
I get that Meta and X generate billions of dollars, regardless of how shady their business dealings or methods are so from an economic stand point, not great if they're down for a few hours.
From a HUMANITY and MENTAL HEALTH stand point, the world could use a few more outages...
Perhaps if online platforms stayed offline for longer periods, it could benefit the mental fortitude and wellbeing of doomscrollers. They might have the opportunity to step outside and connect with nature—whether it's grass, snow, gravel, sand, or beyond. Taking a break from constant scrolling could encourage healthier habits and provide a refreshing change of pace, promoting a more balanced digital and physical lifestyle.
Good idea, but let's bring it to the next level. Just get rid of social media platforms all together. Then they never have to scroll anything and can spend all those free hours doing things constructive and beneficial to their own lives as well as the lives of other.
The really sad part is that if social media went offline permanently much of the world’s population would end up in mental institutions. I think the world would be a much better place if we got rid of the internet altogether.
“You must train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”
- Master Yoda
This Crowdstrike outage has instantaneously put the spotlight on the no longer hypothetical question of "What would we do without the internet?".
Amazing how an outage of this scale, regardless of who it affects, can suddenly put into perspective just how reliant and in a lot of ways, subservient, we've become to computers. Sure, computers can automate and control a lot of things that we take for granted but this is a clear example of how much control we've given them and the dangers that puts on us.
This is why I dont put my trust into AI in any form or think of computers as a lifestyle any longer. All of it can come to a full stop by any number of things. Natural disasters, long term power outages and in the case of Crowdstrike, a bad update pushed out to half of the world's Windows machines.
Amazing how an outage of this scale, regardless of who it affects, can suddenly put into perspective just how reliant and in a lot of ways, subservient, we've become to computers. Sure, computers can automate and control a lot of things that we take for granted but this is a clear example of how much control we've given them and the dangers that puts on us.
This is why I dont put my trust into AI in any form or think of computers as a lifestyle any longer. All of it can come to a full stop by any number of things. Natural disasters, long term power outages and in the case of Crowdstrike, a bad update pushed out to half of the world's Windows machines.