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Facebook is Down
Facebook, the world's largest social networking website, is down for many, users say. Third-party web monitoring tool DownDetector corroborates the claim, adding that more than 11,000 people have reported issues with accessing Facebook in the last 30 minutes or so.
Facebook's outage means social buttons and other Facebook functionalities that are embedded all over the web are also facing issue. Update: Instagram appears to be down, too, for some users.
Update 2: In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Facebook's outage means social buttons and other Facebook functionalities that are embedded all over the web are also facing issue. Update: Instagram appears to be down, too, for some users.
Update 2: In a statement, a Facebook spokesperson said, "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps. We're working to resolve the issue as soon as possible."
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
When the revolution came
There's birds and air and stuff out there! And you won't be pissed off at your friends!
And before it's a story it's old news.
Mine is not loading anything but the cached information.
It's been 4 years since I've wanted to use instagram.....of course it goes down today. Facebook fix your shit, there's this little thing called redundancy.
NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
Who cares?
Hopefully it was the Russians trying to redeem their choice for President. hahaha fuckers!
I like it.
World productivity is up 300%
Insert obligatory Homestar Runner reference here.
Be to Allah
(and I'm an Atheist).
Facebook is Down
If you take that as a definition, I see a lot of people who suffer from a facebook syndrome.
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
Trump and the haters of him would all have to go into detox due to the shakes.
Good thing: I didn't get banned again for my political troll post's on facebook.
Bad thing: I didn't get banned again from facebook.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
...conspiracies...
cat /etc/hosts | grep faceb
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
nothing of value was lost.
It could be some people cannot access Facebook, but for me it's been up all morning (and still is) - I see content from as recently as 11 minutes ago...
So it doesn't seem like Facebook is down so much as, there is some kind of large scale network anomaly somewhere. Are any other sites affected for people?
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Zinedine Zidane must have faceplanted it.
Yay!!
NSA must be installing new spying hardware.
First time in a long time I wished I had mod points...
Working for me.
There seems to be a spike in a number of major ISPs on downdetector (though not all of them) at the same point in time.
Unfortunately the AI software used to censor fake news from facebook has decided, again, to censor facebook. No one can seem to figure out how to prevent this, so the neural net needs to be retrained AGAIN...
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
...installing new NSA software...
If you type www.facebook.com, you get an error message.
BUT, if you click on a link to a specific page.
Example: https://www.facebook.com/busin...
The page resolves. so, not completely down as we all had hoped.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
It won't last, but enjoy it while you can!
We didn't need that website anyway.
And here I thought it might be Google's new blue pill "tioxicity" filter doing it's job....
EOM
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
I wondered why the internet smelled better all of a sudden.
Do you have ESP?
Workplace productivity is up 52%.
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
Thought they'd want to know!
whats down?
Walk softly, else you will summon him!
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
No one's information is being stolen and sold. So that isn't bad at all!
Corporatism != Free Market
Yesterday it was GMail and YouTube that went down... today Facebook...
Is there a storm brewing in them thar clouds perhaps? :-)
Now we can go bomb some people! Woohoo!
Perhaps it will stay down?
The only winning move is not to play. (and not use Facebook)
I'm on IPv6 you insensitive clod!
2a03:2880:f127:83:face:b00c:0:25de
For those of us not on some other website complaining about it at least.
Custom electronics and digital signage for your business: www.evcircuits.com
When a Good Idea for a Podcast is a Bad Idea for a Podcast — 2017
17:05 "What's going on? I was trying to learn."
20:00 "The ocean ... felt like a giant church ... in the absence of extraneous influences. It was strangely magical."
22:00 The quietest day on the East Coast that anyone had heard in fifty years.
and very appropriately when posting this I got the error:
"ameness filter encountered. Post aborted!"
My god they may have to use Twitter now to tell everyone Facebook is down. For the rest of us living a productive life, I hadn't even noticed and don't care. It could down permanently for all I care.
Oh no,,,
how will I,,,
how will I,,,,
how wlll I....
Never Mind.
L'Idiot
It is a good show of how many people are either paid to waste their own time or the time of others, in the case of driving divisions between the populations of the world using good old CIA tactics... One wonders how dumb people deal with all the propaganda though and ultimately that ruines the populations motivative to do good. In other words, propaganda undermines the very nations that use it and as they increase the use of it, more and more people become cynical and stop wanting to help create a better world for their children and the following generations... Instead some asshat politician steals all the money at the top of the political ladder because of greed and the sense of power that comes from abusing people below themselves.
It is back up again.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Like!
Oh the humanity!
"I have never hated a president. I love the taste of traitor cock, and I imagine Putin naked constantly. My allegiance is to Russia via Donald Drumpftard."
I've heard tell that slapping in "0" was marginally faster (and thus infinitely superior) than "0.0.0.0". Maybe that's only on Windows boxes?
I feel better already - feels a bit like taking off heavy boots after a long day...!
Blinking, looking around confusedly and murmuring - 'wait ... we elected who? ... that game show host? .... oh christ... '
See subject: Not since 12/08/2008 MS Patch Tuesday & I confronted an MS mgt. person on it here on /. http://slashdot.org/comments.p... & HE AGREED 0 makes smaller & FASTER loading hosts files (as would even 0.0.0.0 over 127.0.0.1 as the "blocking" loopback adapter address).
* I.E. - 0 won't work in Windows as a blocker in hosts...
APK
P.S.=> There ya go - I use 0.0.0.0 for the best "mix" of size/speed & compatibility but iirc, Linux can still do 0 (correct me IF I am off/wrong here, I haven't experimented w/ that since 2010 on Linux actually)... apk
Think Huwaei is testing their resolve and capabilities?
...realize that there are around 750,000,000 people who care WAY more about this than the number of people who care if Slashdot goes down.
You can laugh, sneer, and make so-called witty comments, but you're in the minority. Compared to Facebook, Slashdot is nugatory.
More to the point, where is any kind of technical analysis or discussion? The total abandonment of any actual technical commentary in favor of childish rhetoric is why I years ago stopped logging in to my >20 year old /. account, and barely come here any more.
"He stopped loading Slashdot, when it had changed so much that there was no longer anything of value to be lost."
I think you have to do it 3 times, but we'll see. Here, I'll post the 2nd...
notepad.exe C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
" felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of public sector workers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly forced to begin being productive"
Go to Google+? Oh wait, that's dead too.
Almost every day I find more reasons to be grateful that my innate skepticism kept/keeps me far from things like Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. I enjoy seeing -good- tech evolve, at least most of the time. I generally trust tech stuff. I don't trust the humans that profit from it. Money corrupts absolutely.
Social media is simply dangerous. Dangerous due to what the unethical business/advertising side is doing to/with our info, and dangerous because of what the entirety of social media is doing to human society. Too much BS being presented as truth. It's being (mostly)cleverly gamed, and presents an insidious, massive threat to the human beans on our rock. Today, in the growing idiocracy/Trumpworld, there's little that can/will try to control the evil that grows between the pages.
I just got a glimpse of our dystopian future. When it first started having issues today, FB only showed me recent posts from my mother-in-law.
"Facebook functionalities that are embedded all over the web are also facing issue"
Pages are so fast to load today !
HE HAS RISEN!!!!!
gg guyz
See subject: It was necessary to do in response to sexconker's "query" & it's dead-solid perfect from me, as always, lol!
* :)
APK
P.S.=> I hope you learned something from my post... apk
Silly. 0.0.0.0 is simply the dotted-4 represention of, wait for it, ... 0. It's a 32-bit number, that's all. If you wanted, most browsers will accept the 32-bit number form of a dotted-4 IP address (for http:; generally https: will not work w/o a hostname). Try it for a site that works with http:. 1.2.3.4 is
1 x 2^24 +
2 x 2^16 +
3 x 2^8 +
4
----
0x01020304 base-16, or
http://16909060/index.html
Assuming there's a website at 1.2.3.4.
To your WildAssClaim, it's not. But, often, the domain is not as simple as "facebook.com", but something like "adf.56032.random.stuff.facebook.com" or so on. A router may block all that on just "facebook.com", but, for example, Windows hosts file won't.
It is faster on hosts load/parse to use 0 in hosts where possible (smaller files load faster + internal parse is less characters per line of the File Open/Read-Write/Flush-Close too programmatically).
* Put it THIS way - don't take MY word for it alone but take the word of a Comp. Sci. Masters Degreed MS person who WAS (then @ least) the head of the Microsoft Windows' Performance Division here I quoted saying so https://slashdot.org/comments....
APK
P.S.=> Hosts don't make FALSE POSITIVES either like wildcarding systems do - specific blocks BLOCK specific known threats & don't harm INNOCENT sites... apk
Obligatory "...and nothing of value was lost" statement.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Where are all the people over 55 going to post their memes too, now?
...box...
Not nearly enough. Facebook has many domains and uses multiple levels of subdomains.
A better approach would be to block entire domains, not just the two "hosts" facebook.com and www.facebook.com.
An even better idea is to blacklist all IP addresses assigned to AS32934, which you can get from whois or here: https://ipinfo.io/AS32934
But that still won't block all of Facebook, because like many other web sites, Facebook uses CDNs and clouds. So, blocking their own IP addresses isn't sufficient, and you can't block all the other addresses that Facebook can use because lots of other sites are behind those same addresses. An IDP cannot be practically enforced by a small scale user.
No one uses Facebook for anything they couldn't accomplish with email. So umm whatever. Maybe they will finally learn the lesson of decentralized services though probably not.
... is productivity.
Off to real social networks: our close and distant members of our families.
I think the Subject: pretty much sums it up, but...
Solutions, are there no solutions?
My favored approach would remain some strong form of MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) to let me filter in favor of people who are not actually wasting my time.
A modicum of politeness for strangers? You must be new around Facebook.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Takes a lot of resources to delete all that lifelog data.
To put it more precisely, Facebook is useless in a manner inconsistent with its normal uselessness.
Goes against everything I've learned in 30 years of system administration, so for Windows it's probably true.
Oh, that's right ...they'll be back,,,
$CAPTCHA=="intrude"
You know that grep takes a file list as an argument, don't you?
grep faceb
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Facebook is down because someone accidentally shut it off.
Ironically, the Facebook technical team communicates via Facebook so they're unable to fix it.
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Good. Leave it that way.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.
Facebook take YOU down.
Oh, wait...
CAPTCHA: educate
They have a few other annoying domains for their tracking pixels that you should toss in /etc/hosts too.
But your /etc/hosts file looks quite a bit like mine! Ha!
heh, i do, but thank you.
i just always pipe stuff around because it's easy to remember.
find blah blah | grep, cat foo | sed | grep, and so on.
cat /etc/hosts | grep faceb
0.0.0.0 facebook.com
0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com
echo "0.0.0.0 facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts && echo "0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts
There, fixed that for ya!
I've heard tell that slapping in "0" was marginally faster (and thus infinitely superior) than "0.0.0.0". Maybe that's only on Windows boxes?
Something stupid like that does sound like what Windows would do.
Just be glad you won't have to reboot after editing the file. Probably.
You know that grep takes a file list as an argument, don't you?
It's poor form, though.
Maybe FB hired System of a Down to play the office party? And something went wrong, someone misheard, they pulled the plug, they heard "we want the system down" instead of "we want System of a Down"!
So improbable, yet I want this to be the explanation!
And sometimes a piped cat helps out like with ls:
ls |cat |grep -v dont_want |while read STUFF; do whatever with $STUFF; done