Aaron Parecki

it's five years' time. you angle-grind open another server cage, welding it closed when you're done. you can't help wonder if there's a better way to do regular scheduled maintenance, but today isn't the day to take on fixing technical debt when everything works just fine.

Ok, seems I may have found my next unnecessary gear item purchase, the @accsoon_cine CineEye system. The hilarious YouTube banter between @GeraldUndone & @PhilipBloom, along with @aaronpk’s analysis has me sold! - You will go FAR with the CineEye 2S Pro! https://youtu.be/viYKCTcG9dg

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

#facebookdown #instagramdown

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.

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

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.

This video aged well…

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

#instagramdown
#facebookdown

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"

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

.@Facebook & @instagram

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.

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

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