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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.
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?
I like it.
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
Yay!!
First time in a long time I wished I had mod points...
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!
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...
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? :-)
Perhaps it will stay down?
The only winning move is not to play. (and not use Facebook)
For those of us not on some other website complaining about it at least.
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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!"
Oh no,,,
how will I,,,
how will I,,,,
how wlll I....
Never Mind.
L'Idiot
It is back up again.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Oh the humanity!
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?
Blinking, looking around confusedly and murmuring - 'wait ... we elected who? ... that game show host? .... oh christ... '
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."
" 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"
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.
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?
... is productivity.
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.
To put it more precisely, Facebook is useless in a manner inconsistent with its normal uselessness.
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.
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.