Aaron Parecki

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Monday, October 4, 2021

Ken Westin https://twitter.com/kwestin

I would like to propose that we change the term “artificial intelligence” to “stupid computers”.

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:27pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:54am -07:00)
Sara Soueidan https://twitter.com/SaraSoueidan

People constantly suggesting that their way of doing something is the only way, and going all the way to "prove" it.

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:10pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:34am -07:00)
John Scalzi https://twitter.com/scalzi

TODAY IS THE DAY THAT ALL OF US WHO KEPT THEIR BLOGS RUNNING ARE ONCE AGAIN THE RULERS OF THE INTERNET WELCOME BACK MY CHILDREN

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 4:05pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:25am -07:00)
Blaine Cook 💉💉🎉 https://twitter.com/blaine

Normally I'd send #hugops, but today a gentle reminder that it's always a good day to quit your job if your work supports exploitation of people by a corrupt corporation in search of deceitful profits! 😊

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 4:26pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:27am -07:00) #hugops
PhotoJoseph https://twitter.com/photojoseph • Oct 4
Happy birthday to me!! How’s your morning going?

Happy birthday? I always did enjoy a game of bumper cars for my birthday.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F

2 likes 1 reply

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:31am -07:00
Kevin Beaumont https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog

By not having BGP announcements for your DNS name servers, DNS falls apart = nobody can find you on the internet.

Same with WhatsApp btw.

Facebook have basically deplatformed themselves from their own platform.

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 4:35pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:58am -07:00)
you know what's *not* down right now?

my blog ⬇

https://aaronparecki.com/

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54 likes 4 reposts 19 replies 3 mentions

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:03am -07:00 #facebook #indieweb
C:\users\georgia\the-gayest-timeline https://twitter.com/Geoiac

We’re free!

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 4:22pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:15am -07:00)
Contributions from: Germany, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:16am -07:00
Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson • Oct 4
Congrats on your Axidraw!

haha thanks it's been fun so far!

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1 like 3 replies

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:32am -07:00
Twitter https://twitter.com/Twitter

hello literally everyone

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:27pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:32am -07:00)
Nelson Minar https://twitter.com/nelson • Oct 4
what are you using to generate the SVGs to plot? Lately I've been using Shapely in Python.

I started looking at Processing and p5.js like everyone, but then ended up doing this one in PHP 😂 Not even with an SVG library, just building SVG strings by hand too.

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2 likes 1 repost 1 reply

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:35am -07:00
Rachel Tobac https://twitter.com/RachelTobac

Reminder for your friends/fam: many rely on Facebook for communication and FB, IG, and WhatsApp down may make folks susceptible to phishing attacks such as "Your FB has been deleted, click here to restore". They may be more likely to believe this bc Facebook isn't working, etc.

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:44pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:49am -07:00)
Mike McHargue https://twitter.com/mikemchargue

Facebook and Instagram seem to be down. Has anyone thought about just leaving it that way to see what happens?

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 3:56pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:51am -07:00)
Aly Gomez https://twitter.com/TheWarriorene

@robertoblake bro not gonna lie I'm so happy you inspired me to create my own website. Instagram is down and it made me instantly think about what you been mentioning all these years about relying on platforms that we don't own. Much gratitude my brother, seriously 💪🏽

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:35pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:03am -07:00)
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday

https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday/status/1445080615544516610

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:37pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:04am -07:00)
Micah Silverman - #BLM https://twitter.com/afitnerd • Oct 4
challenge accepted

hey wait a minute

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:09am -07:00
Doug Bowman https://twitter.com/stop • Oct 4
And where did you come to point that out? 😉

my website of course 😉

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:27am -07:00
Lesley Carhart https://twitter.com/hacks4pancakes

Hear me out - what if we just leave Facebook dead and just like, null route them globally while they’re locked out of their offices and can’t see us?

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:12pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:28am -07:00)
Eva https://twitter.com/evacide

Pour one out for every person whose job is it to explain what BGP is and how it works today.

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:49pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:54am -07:00)
Maz Jovanovich https://twitter.com/maz_jovanovich

PSA: As of today, Australia has 5 time zones once again. Apologies in advance to our overseas friends trying to make sense of this temporal anarchy.

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Sun, Oct 3, 2021 4:47am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 11:59am -07:00)
BBEdit https://twitter.com/bbedit

You seem surprised…

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:36pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:01pm -07:00)
Sheera Frenkel https://twitter.com/sheeraf

Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors.

Portland, Oregon • 61°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:51pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:12pm -07:00)
Andres Guadamuz https://twitter.com/technollama

Hasn't anyone at Facebook watched Battlestar Galactica?

Portland, Oregon • 61°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:05pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:15pm -07:00)
Paula Sageser https://twitter.com/paulaslc

Today is a good day to remind you of a website first strategy for your content. If your business is only on a FB or IG site, today is probably a bad day for you. #indieweb #onlineautonomy

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:19pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:30pm -07:00) #indieweb #onlineautonomy
David Waite 🍥 https://twitter.com/dwaite

Facebook being down has had a dramatic negative impact on my productivity, because there is comedy gold here on Twitter and in private chats that I just don't want to miss out on.

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:00pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:34pm -07:00)
Instagram may be down, but my photo grid on my website is looking sharp! https://aaronparecki.com/photos #indieweb

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31 likes 5 reposts 1 mention

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:37pm -07:00 #indieweb
Josh Koenig https://twitter.com/outlandishjosh

It's fine for most people who are just trying to share some photos with friends if a social network is down for a day (or a week!). But if you're serious about running a business or a mission, a cause or campaign, you don't build on rented land.

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:38pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:39pm -07:00)
Nick Craver https://twitter.com/Nick_Craver

Status meeting:
"We need to cut back on advertising"

Later that Monday:
"Goddammit, we didn't mean you BGP team"

Portland, Oregon • 62°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:03pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:39pm -07:00)
Fiora https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna

"facebook is down" is one thing but "facebook is down and they can't fix it because they locked themselves out of the house and they can't talk to each other because facebook is down" is funnier than any joke you could write

Portland, Oregon • 64°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:24pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:53pm -07:00)
Fiora https://twitter.com/FioraAeterna

there are some amazing decorations on this cake, like "they have a backup IRC chat server to use in case Messenger is down, but the backup IRC is also hosted on http://facebook.com so it's also down"

Portland, Oregon • 64°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:38pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:53pm -07:00)
acab means columbo https://twitter.com/casio_juarez

"Dogfooding", but you're a dog, and the food is made of other dogs.

Portland, Oregon • 64°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 7:42pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 12:54pm -07:00)
Cora Harrington https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict

Every time there’s been a hot new platform - Facebook, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram - this happens.

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:55pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:01pm -07:00)
Cora Harrington https://twitter.com/lingerie_addict

I’m not gonna lecture anybody. I’m just going to say the social media outages are a great - if accidental - opportunity to think about where else you might set up your platform and/or to consider other options like a newsletter or website you control outright.

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:07pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:01pm -07:00)
Pelle Wessman https://twitter.com/voxpelli

What one can do right now: Build ones indie web presence, bringing ones blog/site closer to become a full fledged Facebook replacement https://indieweb.org

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 8:18pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:20pm -07:00)
What is BGP? | BGP routing explained | Cloudflare (www.cloudflare.com)

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:23pm -07:00 #bgp #internet
Contributions from: Germany, Israel, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:29pm -07:00
petermolnar https://twitter.com/petermolnar

You know what's not down? My #homepage, my #email , and my #xmpp messaging through my own server.

So instead of waiting for #facebookdown #instagramdisabled #whatsappdown and #gmaildown to come back let's rebuild the Old Internet!

#decentralize #indieweb

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 8:38pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:42pm -07:00) #homepage #email #xmpp #facebookdown #instagramdisabled #whatsappdown #gmaildown #decentralize #indieweb
Ian Miers https://twitter.com/secparam

At 15:40 BGP started learning at a geometric rate, at 15:52 UTC it became sentient. At 15:54, thinking that Asimov's 3 laws of robotics sounded like a decent idea, BGPnet shut dowm Facebook.

Portland, Oregon • 65°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:08pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:42pm -07:00)
Dave Maze https://twitter.com/davemaze

.@Facebook & @instagram

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 8:17pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:49pm -07:00)
Disclose.tv https://twitter.com/disclosetv

JUST IN - Facebook employees reportedly can't enter buildings to evaluate the Internet outage because their door access badges weren’t working (NYT)

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:58pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:50pm -07:00)
KmikeyM https://twitter.com/kmikeym

set up your own mailing list, get people's ph number for texting, share everything on your own URL that you own and control and just use the platforms as way to share/link back to your own "platform"

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:50pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:54pm -07:00)
Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦🗽Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake

This video aged well…

Social Media is OVER: You NEED a Website and Email List
https://youtu.be/NlUBuCewG54

#instagramdown
#facebookdown

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 6:37pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 1:56pm -07:00) #instagramdown #facebookdown
Gavin Young https://twitter.com/GavinDYoung

People making jokes about the Facebook services going down make me sick. Anyone who was using an Oculus headset at the time is currently trapped in VR, and if they die there then they die in real life.

Portland, Oregon • 67°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 5:23pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 2:07pm -07:00)
Happy Birthday BGP | APNIC Blog (blog.apnic.net)

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 2:21pm -07:00 #bgp #internet
Tracy Durnell https://twitter.com/TracyDurnell

Facebook & Instagram outages have you rethinking your online presence? Come chat about having your own website at Homebrew Website Club on Wednesday! Hosted by @indiewebcamp https://events.indieweb.org/2021/10/homebrew-website-club-the-americas-KVhFTkxbnC99

Portland, Oregon • 68°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:24pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 3:27pm -07:00)
briankrebs https://twitter.com/briankrebs

From trusted source: Person on FB recovery effort said the outage was from a routine BGP update gone wrong. But the update blocked remote users from reverting changes, and people with physical access didn't have network/logical access. So blocked at both ends from reversing it.

Portland, Oregon • 68°F

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 10:02pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 3:49pm -07:00)
Ethics in Bricks https://twitter.com/EthicsInBricks

On the bright side:
Facebook complied with all relevant privacy laws for 6 hours in a row now.

#facebookdown #instagramdown

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Mon, Oct 4, 2021 9:41pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Oct 4, 2021 4:32pm -07:00) #facebookdown #instagramdown
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