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An anonymous reader writes "Some of the functionality is missing from Facebook this morning. You can't post, comment or like anything today."
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... the beginning of the end is near...
Wont even load up right now, just getting a blank screen.
nothing of value was lossed.
Gee, maybe they need to lock-in a bunch of more undocumented foreign workers to get things humming along again. No one over twenty, we all know those people are just retarded, right!
It sure sounds like these things missing will improve the quality of the site by about 1000%
Looks like Slashdot's been hacked.
Summation 2
now if they can only keep it like that
Like +1
I got in my bitching about the failed Ubuntu upgrade before Crackbook died.:)
Installing Debian...
(Yes, I know it's off topic, but it's gratifying to have the gripe out there with no one able to defend Ubuntu.)
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
How about we not turn one sentence, unverified, anonymous reports of stuff not working on websites into Slashdot stories. Might as well pipe our corporate helpdesk ticketing system into the Slashdot story submitter. "MY MONITAR WIL NOT TURN ON!!11!!"
Been working fine for me.
I didn't like it before.
This is the best news I have received all morning. All those bastards sending tractors through my living room wall can't do it now.
OMG!
I just posted this to facebook. jake
This is how the world is going to end?
But really, the reaction I get when I tell people that I am not on FB and refuse to sign up ever amazes me. People seem to think that I don't know what FB is about. Much to the contrary, I know exactly how it works, what it is about. And that is exactly the reason why I choose not to use it.
Nothing to see move on little minions.
And nothing of value was lost.
In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!
...it's Monday.
Koans and fables for the software engineer
/. activity skyrockets for the first time in years as millions of nerds deprived of Candy Crush Saga,Bitstrip, and Marvel Avengers Alliance pour onto net forums to rage and claim the end of the world.
Browsers tried, Opera, FF, Chrome. Android 4.1, FB app works (or pretends to).
Fuck Facebook.
Maybe people should think a little before posting on Slashdot...
They've dropped ropes out of the server room, and they've been taken a hold of down on the field by a number of men. It's starting to rain again; it's—the rain has slacked up a little bit. The back servers are just holding it just, just enough to keep it from — It burst into flames! Get this, Charlie! Get this, Charlie! It's fire—and it's crashing! It's crashing terrible! Oh, my, get out of the way, please! It's burning and bursting into flames, and the—and it's falling on the mooring-mast and all the folks agree that this is terrible, this is one of the worst catastrophes in the world.
It's–it's–it's the flames, oh, four- or five-hundred feet into the sky and it ... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's flames now ... and the frame is crashing to the ground, not quite to the raised floor. Oh, the humanity and all the geeks screaming around here. I told you, I can't even talk to people whose friends are in there. Ah! It's–it's–it's–it's ... o–ohhh! I–I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen.
Honest, it's just laying there, a mass of smoking wreckage. Ah! And everybody can hardly breathe and talk, and the screaming. Lady, I–I'm sorry. Honest: I–I can hardly breathe. I–I'm going to step inside where I cannot see it. Charlie, that's terrible. Ah, ah—I can't. I, listen, folks, I–I'm gonna have to stop for a minute because I've lost my voice. This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
Oh, the humanity!
Who gives a flying fuck about facebook?!
Every other post on /. is about Facebook these days.
News for internet tools, stuff that doesn't really matter...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The end of days is upon us.
Repent!
I woke up this morning thinking that today just felt like such a great day.
I now have confirmation. No Facebook posts from anyone? That is indeed a good day!
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
Turns out commenting, likes and posts were all bugs, not features. The real news is that Facebook has finally started fixing bugs.
Could this be the begining of the end? See the young people emerge from the houses squinting at the daylight
That means we'll have to interact in person now...I don't think I'm ready for this.
to increase the Google+ user base.
Here's a great tip I learned to make money from Facebook!
1. close Facebook
2. go to work
3. make money
This is a great time to try it out.
has a case of the Mondays.
No article to back up this one sentence story?!? So many variables that could lead to an outage that AC didn't account for...
The White house had ComCast redirect Facebook.com to Healthcare.gov, the other ISP's will be switched one at a time over the next 2 weeks to:
1. keep the load down.
2. get everyone signed up.
...and I've also noted that eBay isn't working correctly - no searches seem to be working. Potentially more upsetting to someone because I bought what I was after off Amazon instead (so some ebayer lost a sale)
Oolite: Elite-like game. For Mac, Linux and Windows
There will be less crap in the pipes at least for today.
Next step is getting this thing to be permanent.
The first Slashdot story that's short enough to be a tweet.
the shortest story ever on /.
After an apt-get upgrade on my Debian Jessie/Sid workstation, I discovered to my dismay that the eric5 IDE segfaulted when I tried to run it this morning.
After an extensive Google trawl (like it took 30 seconds!) I managed to find a solution, which was to apt-build install python-qscintilla2.
A short while later, after I installed the newly-rebuilt packages, eric5 happily began to run again, and all was well with the Universe.
(well, that was FAR more interesting than this supposed \. news item - which was apparently a load of crap seeing as Facebook is behaving as expected, as I write this)
Clearly Google is attempting to protect us from Facebook. Quick search on Google confirms this story http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2013/10/21/facebook-down/3142505/
All their programmers left to fix the Obamacare system
Too soon.
Also, Goodwin.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
It's not working for me either, not on Android, Chrome, IE... nada.
I can't post or like or anything. I can't even log in.
So, There's your proof.
Thank god slashdot was there to cover this.
The errors match those gotten with a borked cookie. Also, not knowing there was an outage, I signed my account out, but it no longer recognizes my password nor sends the reset email(I know my p/w absolutely, was just testing the reset), effectively locking me out entirely.
I have a sinking "we've been hacked" feeling. Otherwise, I suppose I'll just have to be more productive today!
They are all over at Healthcare.gov trying to get that working before the HHS secretary looses her job.
I guess we will find out how well the best and brightest can handle multiple outages.. Not looking good so far.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Looks like the genyuses of Silicon Valley's bleeding edge social media have been hard at work creating ever more reliable software. I'm glad these people don't work on banking networks. Perhaps Zuck and company should offer their expertise to the Obamacare website.
Why is this /. news? I'm sure it falls under something technical, but you don't see me posting to /. when my servers are down.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
I just posted to Facebook, liked a friends vacation photo and commented on it and it seemed to work fine for me. Canada here, maybe a regional thing?
They obviously need more employee lock-ins. Servants! Work harder! You are failing management!
Light a fire for a man and he'll be warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Trick or Treat!
Maybe if Zuckerberg had one of those famous lock-in sessions we could fix the problem. you know. the act of doing everything legally possible to prohibit employees from egress at the end of a normal business day.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I'm not old (I'm 34) and I don't have a FB account.
My impression is that the Facebook system, for all its corporate might, is a nigh baling-twine-and-duct-taped mishmash of servers with unpredictable sets of code in them. Partly this is due to my discovery that sometimes your post history fails to be included in a downloaded archive (link). At the time, it was working for some people but not for others. It had worked for me in the past, then stopped, then restarted later on. A Facebook worker in the comments actually asked around and said the feature was supposed to still be there, and someone should be fixing it. But how on earth would part of a downloaded archive just entirely go missing, including the link in the index page? The only way I can parse that is that different servers are running different code and features in unpredictable ways, sometimes changing for part of the client population and not others.
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
and show my friends, enemies and vague acquaintances how interesting, joyful, and insightful my life is? Especially compared to others. You can't do all those things with just a mirror, or around the watercooler!
I wonder what's going on at Google+...
"Now, I doubt any of you would prefer a rolled up newspaper as a weapon against a dictator or a criminal intruder."
It seems Facebook Status update issue got resolved now. I could add new Facebook Status now.
:D
Imagine that, it is like Facebook fell off the Internet. I thought I heard crying and whimpering.
My kids ( early 20s ) didn't even notice as they moved on from the site last year. They wouldn't be caught dead on what they call an 'old people site'.
They secretly run all of Facebook on Windows firesale Surface devices, but moved user profiles/timelines to a separate volume ... and upgraded to Windows 8.1 over the weekend.
...
Coincidence that this happens on the same day Ed Bott blogs about this exact issue with Win8.1? I don't think so
"Ahh! I see you're in that indeterminate Schrodinger state where - oh, uh
You can't post, comment or like anything.
Finally. This is the official start of Facebook's slow decline. Next up. Video ads in your newsfeed that you cannot turn off and then starts the great migration to the next big thing.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/21/facebook-experiences-partial-outage-on-desktop-and-mobile/
"Slashdot accepts lame unverified story that is probably not even relevant in 60 seconds" (even if it were relevant to begin with)
And, this is bad why?
This story has proved to me that it just may be possible to become *less* intelligent simply by reading something
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The people who are playing Farmville all day at work on the company dime with a Google tab open to hide it if someone walks in should be forced to go outside today and DO ACTUAL WORK FOR ONCE.
Facebook's down! Oh my gosh, I'm jumping off a bridge.
This is my sig.
Right. Old people that still think it is 1995 are the only ones still using Facebook.
It's evening. When will people (Americans?) finally grok that internet is international, and that the country they live in is just one of many countries...
Pun intended.
So, if I can tie all the pieces together from various Slashdot stories about Facebook....
Zuckerberg is building In-Campus housing to warehouse all his H1B slave labor, whom he essentially locks into the building until they solve some tech problem.
They slaves can't leave the building, and also can't leave the campus, because their home is in-campus, and chances are, he's keeping all their documentation hostage, since his "plantation" is private property probably patroled by Private Security (the overseers)....
So when a fire wipes out his locked-in garment workers (erm, javascrpt slingers); Zuckerberg has essentially killed his own company.
Or, his slaves will eventually rebel, and there will be some campus-wide mass slaying of VPs.
So remember boys and girls, if you use facebook, you're supporting SLAVE LABOR....
And screw-ups like this morning will get more and more prevelant as Facebook's code gets more and more convoluted and patched together and hacked together and messy and unreadable. And Zuckerberg's race to the bottom brings him less and less smart people and more and more "Foxconn-Like" assembly workers who only follow orders and are unable to think on their own.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
You can come here to slashdot to read about it. Facebook is one of our favorite subjects to post on the front page; come here to read about your favorite facebook celebrities and what they are doing with their money. Come here to read about all the things that facebook is doing that slashdot couldn't figure out how to do themselves in time. Come here to reminisce about how much wealthier Taco and company would be if they could have gone public with a successful product (business plans be damned!) instead of being absorbed by dice.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Looks like Fakebook is having a case of the Muuuuuuuunnnnndaysss
... the "like" button under a post saying that "like" buttons ar broken.
Do the best and the brightest know the difference between "lose" and "loose"?
Ever.
WTF- The healthcare.gov site has had similar problems for ~three weeks now. I'm pretty sure FB's problems are a fake so that someone can use it as an example when speaking about the ACA site. "See- all high-tech sites have problems from time to time." And the sheep say: "See- even FB has problems. How can we expect our government to do any better?"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/20/us-usa-healthcare-lew-idUSBRE99J04620131020
Ode to joy, in glorious schadenfreude.
Horrors! The world is going to end. How will I know what to think today?
How is this even considered news? It's a one-line summary.
Earlier today, my USB keyboard needed replugged to start working again. Shall I submit a story?
34? That's old.
The only thing I think is missing from the list is Viewing things.
Paul: Father... father, the sleeper has awakened! - Dune
What is Facebook again?
How about in bed or coming into the office. When this story was posted on Slashdot, it was 6AM in Silicon Valley
First world problems.
Facebook was probably working properly, but PRISM ran out of space so TPTB told Zuckerberg to halt operations until they more disks are added space.
...it must be time for an employee lock-in.
And today, it did.
Well done, AC!
One more Candy Crush invite and it was bound to happen by someone's hand.
Lockdown!
I don't "like" Mondays.
GrumpyCat.jpg
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
I worked TV tech support one summer and had a guy call in because his TV wasn't working during a power outage. I was just stunned...
I think finally Facebook has introduced a USEFUL change for their platform.
guess not...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
ISS blew up, Hubble is gone and Shengzou is falling down.
Finally something about Facebook that I like.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
...were suddenly silenced, and cried out in terror - ?
(geez, disappointed in you all I am; this story was posted 4 hours ago...)
Since last Monday that town has had DNS hijacks and every other back of tricks applied to them due to stupidity in the news. Not commenting on the case, just random misinformation bundled with it. Anonymous is supposed to be doing their number and I am pretty sure they have.
That will be $1.04 per post and 50c per like, Thank you and have a nice day :P
1. close Facebook
2. go to work
So how should people who don't use Facebook get a job in the first place? This story from 15 months ago claims that people without an account appear even more suspicious than those with few friends.
They raped their golden goose with the new fee structures a while back and hasn't been the same since.
For the past six years, I've worked for small businesses that sell R/C cars and model trains on eBay. The 15% commission (12% eBay final value fee, 3% PayPal fee) hasn't really changed much over the past six years and isn't much different from Amazon other than that eBay's insertion fees are much lower at certain volume levels. So how are you defining "new"?
It explains the folks running down the middle of the street with no clothes on shouting "The end! The end!"
Like
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc)
I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.
Esli epei etot cumprenan, shris soa Sfaha.
Best. Patch. *Ever*.
get shit code.